Facebook plans to shut down its facial recognition system

Post by datavirtue » Tue, Nov 02, 2021, 6:43 PM UTC

sharkweek wrote: post #58

Here's where Facebook's brand reputation sits in my mind today: I do not believe them at all. I do not believe they've had some change of heart regarding "many concerns about the place of facial recognition technology in society." I do not believe they intend to not use this technology in some other privacy-invading way. Trying to figure out their real angle here. Avoid regulation? "Good" PR at a time when they despe…

Post by strulovich » Tue, Nov 02, 2021, 6:48 PM UTC

SNosTrAnDbLe wrote: post #63

captainmuon wrote: post #50

So sad that we can't have nice things. I like the feature that automatically tags people in pictures. 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 tha…

The question is are you ok with some stranger adding a picture of you on facebook and then facebook promptly tags you on their profile.

Post by datavirtue » Tue, Nov 02, 2021, 6:52 PM UTC

SavantIdiot wrote: post #64

LadyCailin wrote: post #52

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The same way that you verify that the local chicken plant is properly following contamination prevention procedures. You don’t, at least not personally. We as a society rely on government based regulations and knowledgeable inspectors to verify these things. I’d say software should be no different in these regards. (Though that isn’t currently the case.)

Reminds me of the drone photographers that were flying over pig farms in the south that were egregiously breaking laws. Instead of fixing the pig farms, they went after the photographers.

Post by amelius » Tue, Nov 02, 2021, 6:54 PM UTC

captainmuon wrote: post #50

So sad that we can't have nice things. I like the feature that automatically tags people in pictures. 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 tha…

Post by Jenk » Tue, Nov 02, 2021, 7:03 PM UTC

mminer237 wrote: post #43

Jenk wrote: post #29

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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?

My wedding album has like 200 photos in it. I definitely had relatives who didn't want to look through them all and just asked me to send them the photos with them in it.