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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: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 10 2017, @06:29PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 10 2017, @06:29PM (#452167)

    Facebook gets 300 million new photos each day. [zephoria.com] (Let's not even talk about instagram)

    Even if a turk could do 300 photos per day - and that's a major stretch given all the overhead and how mind-numbing the work is - it would require 1 million full time turks working 365 days per year.

    The entire turk marketplace has only about 500,000 registered turks, [pewinternet.org] including the ones who just work once a month.

    So not only would facebook need to at least double Amazon's entire population, they would also have to figure out how to keep a million people from blabbing.

    So, yet again VLM is revealed as someone whose fantasies bear no relation to the real world.
    Be sure to reward him with upmods for his insightful and informative post, though!

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