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Facebook's search is not useful. It's (obviously) segmented based on your own network, and generally useless for practical purposes. Perhaps law enforcement wil
by fapjacks 10y ago
Facebook's search is not useful. It's (obviously) segmented based on your own network, and generally useless for practical purposes. Perhaps law enforcement will find some use in this, but most people won't. Or at least, any utility beyond "Oh, remember that time I took a picture with that weird dog in it?"
- bpodgursky 10y agoYour power of imagination is truly inspirational.
- fapjacks 10y agoI take it you haven't actually tried to put Facebook search to practical use. I used to run a nonprofit for combat veterans (since killed by California's AMT on all businesses including nonprofits) and used to pick up new candidates through word of mouth. I would then have to find these people often by name only. Facebook's graph search used to be okay for this purpose, but they've completely neutered all the utility out of their search over the years.
- chrischen 10y agoHe's talking about its current public potential, not idealized potential. For example go on facebook and use the search and tell me one interesing use case.
- jackhack 10y agoMy worry: It will someday let agents scan your images for items of interest in an automated fashion. Firearms. Flags. Knives. Religious symbols. It's not to great a leap to imagine this happening in a very restrictive culture where possession of the wrong religious text could be considered criminal. Or a deck of playing cards. A cassette tape of music. Alcohol or Cigarettes. etc. Never forget technology is just a tool which can be used by dark sides of humanity too.
- forgottenpass 10y agoThe analysis of the images isn't meant for the users, it's so Facebook knows what's in them. Adding a user-facing interface is an easy-to-add toy for users and an attempt to recruit them into improving training data.