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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.
But then, it's probably FB that facilitated that kind of behavior, so more mixed feelings.
Considering how powerful these orgs are, with low probability of facing any legal repercussions about potentially false claims, do we have any other option than to take their word for it?
I 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?
I 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?
Yet another useful technology going away because the activist media threw a five year temper tantrum over Trump being elected (which was mostly their fault in the first place)
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Serious question: I kind of liked how Facebook found people in my photos. Is there room for such a feature in a privacy conscious world?
My dream facial recognition feature for Facebook would be to allow me, as a non-user of Facebook, to upload some hash of my face and direct Facebook to disallow any user from uploading a picture with my face in it.
Yet another useful technology going away because the activist media threw a five year temper tantrum over Trump being elected (which was mostly their fault in the first place)
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I won't disagree that perhaps he broke the rules with the comment and it could be rephrased better, but it does seem like he is a real poster with a legitimate (although unpopular) viewpoint and could use a bit of grace, eh?
Luddites. 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…
What's up with this plainly ridiculous usage of the term "bully"? It's almost self-parody. It's something I've noticed in British newspapers sometimes where MPs will whine about being "bullied" by citizens who post rude comments online.
It's really obviously not the right term for whatever point you want to express! Taking points off your English paper for incorrect word usage.
Sometimes I have trouble remembering people's names (not face blindness or similar, just regular trouble I guess). I would love to have smart glasses that show the name of someone I've met before but don't quite remember. But alas, our society being what it is people will abuse facial recognition, so I can't have that it seems...