Facebook harvested 3.5 Billions users photos

All to help end spam so they say. Never mind that it gave them a serious boost over google.

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Impressive to hear that they got a better score than google to recognize images:

Mr Narayanan said Facebook technology could now recognise the content of images with 85.4 per cent accuracy, compared to Google’s 79.2 per cent.

But he said it was still not good enough to recognise all “clickbait, engagement-bait, pornography, violence, and other inappropriate content” that flooded the social network.

“Some content is still more difficult for AI to understand,” Mr Narayanan said.

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It’s interesting that the hashtags gave them better data.

Edit: on mobile. Damn auto correct

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Well, in Europe they are actually not allowed to do this. They can’t use face recognition here.

Instagram claims they don’t, which might be true, but it was Facebook that analyzed it. Either way, do you really think they care about such a law when harvesting data? They could simply not call it “facial recognition” and they’ve skirted the law.

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Well, no one knows for sure. I think they will probably work in the boundaries the EU sets for them. At what point Image recognition is considered to be illegal I actually don’t know.

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