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Facebook’s image outage reveals how the company’s AI tags your photos

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Re: Facebook’s image outage reveals how the company’s AI tags your photos

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Maybe I'm used to my slow internet connection, but I've been seeing these tags before the images load for a couple of years now - I thought it was common knowledge.

Besides - both Apple and Google openly reveals that they auto-tag images by allowing you to search your albums on these sites with the tags as a feature.

Re: Facebook’s image outage reveals how the company’s AI tags your photos

#22

Lots of comments about how this isn’t new, or how it’s related to accessibility. The article mentions all this. That’s not what the story is. It’s not a very deep story, but I don’t think it’s quite so trivial as is being suggested. The story is about this info being exposed to users just browsing the site, and the reaction that elicits. Someone seeing the tags inline in their feed by a glitch will tend to have a ver…

That is an incredibly charitable interpretation of the word "reveal" in the headline. Every piece of information can be "revealed" to someone by that definition, it's happening all the time, and it wouldn't be a newsworthy event.

Re: Facebook’s image outage reveals how the company’s AI tags your photos

#23

it's not about what it means for this community, where we all know the shortcut to the dev console in chrome. this is about regular users of Facebook having their own "they live" moments on social media. where they can see plainly how Facebook regards them as consumers. "oh just show him pictures of DRINK and TEXT, that's all he's into anyways".

"They Live" is a great comparison. Of course this isn't new to someone on HN who follows this technology and the companies using it for a living, but for my uncle who just posts pictures of his dog it's a bit shocking to see that the computer knows that it's (likely) a picture of a dog next to a tree, even if he was aware on some level that computers these days are capable of that kind of classification.

Re: Facebook’s image outage reveals how the company’s AI tags your photos

#24

Lots of comments about how this isn’t new, or how it’s related to accessibility. The article mentions all this. That’s not what the story is. It’s not a very deep story, but I don’t think it’s quite so trivial as is being suggested. The story is about this info being exposed to users just browsing the site, and the reaction that elicits. Someone seeing the tags inline in their feed by a glitch will tend to have a ver…

That is an incredibly charitable interpretation of the word "reveal" in the headline. Every piece of information can be "revealed" to someone by that definition, it's happening all the time, and it wouldn't be a newsworthy event.

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Re: Facebook’s image outage reveals how the company’s AI tags your photos

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You could also see this if you viewed source when it was fully working, of course. And occasionally before images loaded in if you were on a slow connection. I don't think it's any great secret, but still interesting to see.

It happens sometimes in Instagram without any big outage

Re: Facebook’s image outage reveals how the company’s AI tags your photos

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post #21

Maybe I'm used to my slow internet connection, but I've been seeing these tags before the images load for a couple of years now - I thought it was common knowledge.

Besides - both Apple and Google openly reveals that they auto-tag images by allowing you to search your albums on these sites with the tags as a feature.

And Microsoft too

Re: Facebook’s image outage reveals how the company’s AI tags your photos

#30

Maybe I'm used to my slow internet connection, but I've been seeing these tags before the images load for a couple of years now - I thought it was common knowledge.

No one I talked to was surprised. I've always thought it was pretty neat. As a human I tag people in my photos, I let the machine do the boring stuff (this photo contains trees)
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