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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 10 2017, @03:09PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 10 2017, @03:09PM (#452071)

    I think much of this mechanical turk stuff was really done by my girlfriend's mother and father, who believe they have nothing to hide and will expose everyone via tagging even if told they don't want to participate in the tracking scheme.

    They loved personalized ads because it is less junk to sift through, want to catch the terrorists and believe Alexa is a great way to keep tabs on criminals in the future, if it can get built into every appliance and connected to every network.

    They happily add meta data to photos because they believe it is their duty, and expect others to do the same in exchange for this marvelous free software because otherwise we're freeloading welfare dirtbags that think we can get something for free.

    I hate what family discussions have turned into...

  • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Tuesday January 10 2017, @05:38PM

    by bob_super (1357) on Tuesday January 10 2017, @05:38PM (#452143)

    > and believe Alexa is a great way to keep tabs on criminals in the future, if it can get built into every appliance and connected to every network.

    Orwell was wrong: We're not getting one government Big Brother. We're getting half a dozen private ones.
    Until the bonuses beat the CEOs' egos and they finally merge into a single OCP + Big Brother.