Facebook can identify you even if you’re not looking

Just after reporting that Facebook will know how long you’ve been looking at a post, the head of artificial intelligence from the company claims that their facial recognition technology no longer needs to see people’s faces to identify them. Creepy?

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The technology reportedly takes into consideration other clues in the photo when the face is not present (person turning back, passing by, etc).

“There are a lot of cues we use. People have characteristic aspects, even if you look at them from the back,” LeCun said, who leads the team. “For example, you can recognise Mark Zuckerberg very easily, because he always wears a gray T-shirt.”

Their group conducted a test using 40,000 Flickr images wherein the algorithm correctly identified people 86% of the time. The project is still on its experimental stage, but this could potentially mean that it could know that it was you even if you were just in the background of a photo, even when your face isn’t shown.

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Facebook can identify you even if you’re not looking

Just after reporting that Facebook will know how long you’ve been looking at a post, the head of artificial intelligence from the company claims that their facial recognition technology no longer needs to see people’s faces to identify them. Creepy?

facebook-algorithm

The technology reportedly takes into consideration other clues in the photo when the face is not present (person turning back, passing by, etc).

“There are a lot of cues we use. People have characteristic aspects, even if you look at them from the back,” LeCun said, who leads the team. “For example, you can recognise Mark Zuckerberg very easily, because he always wears a gray T-shirt.”

Their group conducted a test using 40,000 Flickr images wherein the algorithm correctly identified people 86% of the time. The project is still on its experimental stage, but this could potentially mean that it could know that it was you even if you were just in the background of a photo, even when your face isn’t shown.

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Facebook can identify you even if you’re not looking

Just after reporting that Facebook will know how long you’ve been looking at a post, the head of artificial intelligence from the company claims that their facial recognition technology no longer needs to see people’s faces to identify them. Creepy?

facebook-algorithm

The technology reportedly takes into consideration other clues in the photo when the face is not present (person turning back, passing by, etc).

“There are a lot of cues we use. People have characteristic aspects, even if you look at them from the back,” LeCun said, who leads the team. “For example, you can recognise Mark Zuckerberg very easily, because he always wears a gray T-shirt.”

Their group conducted a test using 40,000 Flickr images wherein the algorithm correctly identified people 86% of the time. The project is still on its experimental stage, but this could potentially mean that it could know that it was you even if you were just in the background of a photo, even when your face isn’t shown.

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Facebook will know how long you’ve been looking at a post

In an attempt to “improve” your browsing experience, Facebook announces a new way to measure what you like or don’t like to see in your news feed. This is apparently done by determining how long you look at a specific post.

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The new algorithm starts a timer when you stop at a certain post while scrolling through your feed. It also knows if you’re browsing the comments section in which it “learns” that you like that content even if you didn’t give it a Like or commented on it.

In contrast, scroll past it and the system will know that it’s something that doesn’t interest you, giving you less of those kinds of content in the future.

The update was reported to be taking effect in the coming weeks. The company also mentions that those who have accounts on Pages wouldn’t be affected so much by this rollout.

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Facebook will know how long you’ve been looking at a post

In an attempt to “improve” your browsing experience, Facebook announces a new way to measure what you like or don’t like to see in your news feed. This is apparently done by determining how long you look at a specific post.

facebook

The new algorithm starts a timer when you stop at a certain post while scrolling through your feed. It also knows if you’re browsing the comments section in which it “learns” that you like that content even if you didn’t give it a Like or commented on it.

In contrast, scroll past it and the system will know that it’s something that doesn’t interest you, giving you less of those kinds of content in the future.

The update was reported to be taking effect in the coming weeks. The company also mentions that those who have accounts on Pages wouldn’t be affected so much by this rollout.

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