The facial recognition feature is how I figured out someone was doxxing and harassing me on their page. Getting the notification that it thinks I appeared in a photo they had ripped from my FB profile was the tip off. I have mixed feelings.
Facebook plans to shut down its facial recognition system
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#22I get all the privacy concerns, but this was actually super useful for people who opted-in. Manually retyping everybody's name when tagging them in 50 photos from an event is torturous.
Yes, but why tag people?
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#23Luddites. You can't un-invent technology. Like all technology, facial recognition has tremendous potential for good. We should learn to live with the technology, not attempt to forbid its use.
Also, Meta is a bunch of cowards nowadays. They should not have kowtowed to angry Twitter activists. It sets a bad precedent.
I don't like this system where activists bully big companies into compliance with their idiosyncratic moral systems instead of using the government and the laws to codify restrictions and rules in a transparent way that everyone can understand and in which everyone has a say.
If facial recognition is so bad, it should be illegal. If it's not illegal, FB has a responsibility to its shareholders to maximize profit within the law. If, as an activist, can't get support for making facial recognition illegal, then maybe it's not quite as bad as you claim.
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#24Why would they? I bet most users actually like that facebook finds their face in friends photos.
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#25Pity. I liked the feature. Fortunately, we’ve mostly all moved over to use Google’s shared albums with automatic facial recognition and sharing. My friends all have photos I take of them and likewise they share theirs with me.
I think Google has figured out a lot of fun sharing tools for people in trusted environments: location sharing, photo tagging, etc.
I’m rather impressed with it all. Good stuff.
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#26Who needs facial recognition when we're going to be uploading our minds into the metaverse?
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#27I get all the privacy concerns, but this was actually super useful for people who opted-in. Manually retyping everybody's name when tagging them in 50 photos from an event is torturous.
Who opted in? I certainly don't remember ever doing it, yet auto tagging has always worked for me (both when I am tagging pictures and when others are tagging me).
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#28The hoops they have to jump through just to enable some really cool features down the line is sad.
I don't know why adding another opt in wasn't enough, it's not like the haters are going to believe they deleted the templates anyways.
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#29I get all the privacy concerns, but this was actually super useful for people who opted-in. Manually retyping everybody's name when tagging them in 50 photos from an event is torturous.
Surely one should be able to just tag _the album_ instead of each photo?
I always figured this constraint was kept as a happy convenience so that Facebook have a steady supply of training data for their face recognition service.
If they are shutting that service down, maybe they'll let us tag albums?
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#30The facial recognition feature is how I figured out someone was doxxing and harassing me on their page. Getting the notification that it thinks I appeared in a photo they had ripped from my FB profile was the tip off. I have mixed feelings.
But then, it's probably FB that facilitated that kind of behavior, so more mixed feelings.