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I actually have NYT blocked because their reporting has had such shoddy research lately, but I guess they're probably referring to the face-clustering feature f
by drusepth 5y ago
I actually have NYT blocked because their reporting has had such shoddy research lately, but I guess they're probably referring to the face-clustering feature for tags where, when you upload an album, they'll cluster all the like-faces to you to let you tag all of them at once [1].
It was released in December 2010 and, AFAIK, is technically only face detection (they didn't suggest whose face it might be for many years), not facial recognition. (They bought facial recognition company Face.com in 2012 and everyone was excited that FB might finally get real recognition).
I guess it could be argued that their implementation of face detection ultimately evolved into their current facial recognition systems (see: Ship of Theseus?), or that to a layperson the two technologies might (unfortunately) sound like the same thing. Or maybe I'm just being pedantic; I was just trying to add some historical context to the current, opt-in "facial recognition" feature in my comment above.
[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2010/12/facebook-will-start-using-facial-recognition-next-week/68121/ https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2010/12/faceb...
- jrochkind1 5y agoNo, you're not being pedantic, I appreciate the history, I was just wondering if anyone knew what was what here, after you supplied those citations for much later introduction date. And you supplied some info, thanks! (I don't know why you have to block something for having bad reporting, but we don't have to talk about that!)
- drusepth 5y agoThanks, glad I could assist! (Haha, always trying to take back a few seconds/minutes in the day. I find blackholing links to a few websites that get linked often, but aren't often worth reading, helps with that. :) )
- jrochkind1 5y agoI'm still seeing things that suggest they really did deploy this in 2010 though... were they press-releasing more than they were actually doing in 2010? June 2011... > “When you or a friend upload new photos, we use face recognition software . . . to match your new photos to other photos you’re tagged in,’’ Justin Mitchell, a Facebook engineer, said in a Facebook blog. “We group similar photos together and, whenever possible, suggest the name of the friend in the photos.’’ http://archive.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2011/06/09/privacy_group_targets_facebook/ http://archive.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2011/...