Facebook plans to shut down its facial recognition system

Post by wizzwizz4 » Tue, Nov 02, 2021, 9:27 PM UTC

rootusrootus wrote: post #139

jonas21 wrote: post #123

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Or... maybe HN is composed of different people with different viewpoints. People are more motivated to comment when they're upset about something, so it ends up looking like everyone here hates everything big tech does, when it may be that a small number of people hate decision X, a small number of people hate decision Y, and most people either like them or don't care. You often hear complaints that big tech drives p…

> Or... maybe HN is composed of different people with different viewpoints. A useful concept for people to remember as it applies everywhere. Particularly as we get drawn into tribal politics, it would be better for people to remember that the opposition is not uniform and consists of many different viewpoints. For someone who wants to be divisive, it is trivial to cherry pick examples of bad behavior ("hypocritical"…

Post by jacquesm » Tue, Nov 02, 2021, 9:40 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 jacquesm » Tue, Nov 02, 2021, 9:42 PM UTC

sulam wrote: post #158

tablespoon wrote: post #8

> The change affects more than a third of Facebook’s daily users who had facial recognition turned on for their accounts, according to the company. I'm surprise the number is that low. Wasn't enabling this a default? > That meant they received alerts when new photos or videos of them were uploaded to the social network. The feature had also been used to flag accounts that might be impersonating someone else... That's…

I turned it off because the "default" use case seemed rather to be to boost their engagement because someone you know socially would upload a picture of something they did that happened to have you in it. That would lead to you being tagged and getting notified, presumably to talk about how much fun you all had or whatever it was. Unfortunately it's pretty useless to ask people to not upload pictures that you're pres…

Post by joelbondurant » Tue, Nov 02, 2021, 10:01 PM UTC

Post by bellyfullofbac » Tue, Nov 02, 2021, 10:25 PM UTC

slownews45 wrote: post #98

Vrondi wrote: post #65

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But their facial recognition is not opt-in. You cannot prevent other people from uploading photos of you then tagging your face in them, training Facebook's facial recognition to your face even if you consciously never upload your image a single time.

You can only be suggested as a name for someone else's photo if you've turned face recognition on. "If you’d like other people to see tag suggestions for you, you’ll need to turn on your face recognition setting." So you need to opt in to it to let others tag you.