Facebook’s DeepFace AI Can Recognize You In Nearly Any Photo.
Saturday, January 16, 2016 3:14
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The more time goes by the more obvious it becomes that Minority Report was as good at predicting the future as the psychics it featured. Not only are we now waving our hands around to control games, but soon we may have to remove our own eyeballs to prevent computers from recognizing our faces. Facebook is boasting that its DeepFace AI system is now powerful enough to spot users in the 400 million photos uploaded to the social network every single day.
Sci-fi paranoia aside, Facebook claims the program, which has been learning for years, is actually for increasing privacy. Instead of tagging users in embarrassing or even incriminating photos without their permission, users will be able to see the photos they are popping up in and have the choice to blur out their faces. The program works for strangers’ pictures as well as ones from friends, but users can only see the identities of people they already know.
Still, whether or not the intentions are good, at the end of the day Facebook will still be able to identify you in any picture and hold on to that very valuable personal data. Even worse, other entities are researching similar technology including the government and private companies such as Google. We can argue over which side is scarier, but most would agree that’s too much power for one group to wield.
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