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See What Facebook Thinks Is in Your Photos

posted by cmn32480 on Tuesday January 10 2017, @01:29PM   Printer-friendly
from the you-are-the-product dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

Every time you upload a photo to Facebook, its deep-learning algorithms go to work, trying to ID things both incredibly specific (which of your friends is in this photo?) and general (is this photo outdoors or indoors?). But that information is largely hidden from users — until now.

Software engineer Adam Geitgey put together the snappily named Chrome extension "Show Facebook Computer Vision Tags," which allows anyone to see what general information Facebook extracts from every photo that's been uploaded. Install the extension and head over to Facebook, and you can start immediately seeing which objects Facebook can ID within pretty much any photo.

http://nymag.com/selectall/2017/01/see-what-facebook-thinks-is-in-your-photos.html

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  • (Score: 2) by bart9h on Tuesday January 10 2017, @02:12PM

    by bart9h (767) on Tuesday January 10 2017, @02:12PM (#452041)

    The text appears when the photo doesn't load. I saw it accidentally other day, and was quite amused.

    The extension probably just prevents the photo from loading.

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  • (Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 10 2017, @06:40PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 10 2017, @06:40PM (#452172)

    I can't decide what's sadder about your confession: you just now noticed alt-text exists, or you never ever view page source.