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[Patryn]

The days of being able to cover your face to prevent you from being ID'd is fast coming to an end:

An experimental algorithm out of Facebook's artificial intelligence lab can recognise people in photographs even when it can't see their faces. Instead it looks for other unique characteristics like your hairdo, clothing, body shape and pose.

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The research team pulled almost 40,000 public photos from Flickr - some of people with their full face clearly visible, and others where they were turned away - and ran them through a sophisticated neural network.

The final algorithm was able to recognise individual people's identities with 83 per cent accuracy. It was presented earlier this month at the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition conference in Boston, Massachusetts.

Source.

I don't know about you, but it kind of creeps me out that we've entered the point where it's impossible to hide your identity if you're on camera. We've really begun peeling privacy totally away at this point.

 

[Salsa]

im bald and wear mostly no clothes

fuck you!

 

[Cloud Strife]

Interesting.

Now you can auto tag "bodies"?

 

[Queen of Hunting]

corporations have slowly been peeling away privacy for years now and everyone has been taking no notice

 

[Zeyphersan]

Has science gone too far?

Spoiler

Yeah, probably

 

[ItIsOkBro]

Truly fascinating, I wonder if it could help catch criminals.

 

[POWERSPHERE]

My hefty thick white penis has always been a dead giveaway from 50 metres or less.

 

[Patryn]

corporations have slowly been peeling away privacy for years now and everyone has been taking no notice

The question is who is ahead in this game: Governments or corporations?

More distressingly, imagine this tech in the hands of a tyrannical government. It's becoming easier and easier to just track your populace.

 

[zeemumu]

Prepare to show up in the background of thousands of photos.

 

[shadowkat]

This creeps me out.

 

[narcosis219]

im bald and wear mostly no clothes

fuck you!

That's precisely why we know it's you salsa

 

[Gurgelhals]

I, for one, welcome our new cyberpunk dystopian corporate overlords...

 

[Garrett Hawke]

The question is who is ahead in this game: Governments or corporations?

More distressingly, imagine this tech in the hands of a tyrannical government. It's becoming easier and easier to just track your populace.

Corporations. Recently the Verge ran an article about how Facebook's facial recognition system is leagues above the US govts.

 

[DiipuSurotu]

They should licence this tech to adult entertainment sites so people can search for pornstars based on their body features.

 

[Kaladin]

We can finally find out who this guy really was:

 

[perfectchaos007]

They should licence this tech to adult entertainment sites so people can search for pornstars based on their body features.

What if it can identify a male's identity by the size and shape of their bulge

 

[uuaschbaer]

Has science gone too far?

Spoiler

Yeah, probably

Science can work in more than one direction, but someone has to pay for it.

 

[ffdgh]

That's rather creepy..

 

[MarzipaNMOS]

corporations have slowly been peeling away privacy for years now and everyone has been taking no notice

is this response trying to be edgy or did you not notice all of the articles about the NSA, snowden leaks, or facebook's ever-changing privacy policies? its not that no one has noticed, its that no one really cares because it hasn't affected them in any meaningful way (yet?)

 

[air jordans for dogs]

Lawsuit gonna happen when a pig gets identified as your mom

 

[dekline]

Can't wait until it recognizes disguised aliens and shit

 

[Chariot]

Great, Domain Awareness in Facebook, just what we needed.

 

[Orbis Tabula]

So they've finally cracked FaceBack. Interesting.

 

[Cheat Code]

So they've finally cracked FaceBack. Interesting.

Technically it would be BackBook

 

[Grifter]

My hefty thick white penis has always been a dead giveaway from 50 metres or less.

Tough to hide when it was already recognized as a face.

 

[davepoobond]

the government has already had this technology, haven't they?

 

[oreomunsta]

Looks like I'll be joining Arya in training at the House of Black and White. C'ya guys

 

[Resilient]

Fuck that shitty site. If the people I chill with didn't use it I'd be off it. A necessary evil

 

[Illusive_Juan]

Facebook develops tech to identify you in pictures

They already do that...

even without your face

Oh. Well that's scary/cool.

 

[Kaladin]

If they ever develop tech to identify someone based on their avatar of choice, we're all screwed.

 

[Condom]

Pretty cool, have given up on privacy a long time ago...

 

[Salamando]

If they ever develop tech to identify someone based on their avatar of choice, we're all screwed.

Avatars? Facebook'll just download your post history and identify you based off word choice, sentence structure, and whatever personal details you've mentioned.

 

[kiguel182]

Truly fascinating, I wonder if it could help catch criminals.

Yup. Great potential for that. Hopefully they realise that and make the tech available for that purpose.

 

[Chezzymann]

I remember the days when internet companies told you to not share your name with strangers, now they want you to share your basic information with everyone

 

[exmachina64]

A recent show of On Point with Tom Ashbrook covered this issue. It was a nice breakdown of the topic and helped my mother understand the controversy.

 

[CadetMahoney]

There's software to also detect the way you walk too.

 

[davepoobond]

I remember the days when internet companies told you to not share your name with strangers, now they want you to share your basic information with everyone

That's because no one followed those rules to begin with.

Also, its pretty much assured that your personal info has already been compromised considering all of the high profile hacks of the past 10 years, so a legitimate business that has your info is the least of your worries...

 

[liliththepale]

That's really cool!

I wonder how much overhead Facebook has to run experiments like this. I mean, their servers are already overloaded with delivering millions of photos every second, so I can only imagine how much worse things get by adding neural networks for recognition tech on top.

 

[Transhuman]

Facebook has designed an AI that can only predict identity with the same percentage of accuracy as my knowledge of math on my first Grade 8 maths test?

This technology is dumb and it should feel dumb.

 

[Patryn]

That's really cool!

I wonder how much overhead Facebook has to run experiments like this. I mean, their servers are already overloaded with delivering millions of photos every second, so I can only imagine how much worse things get by adding neural networks for recognition tech on top.

This is core to their experience.

Facebook is VERY interested in cataloging every person and what activities they are partaking in.

Remember, if you're not paying for things, you're the product. The more Facebook can know about people, the better they can sell you to their actual customers: the advertising companies.

I wouldn't be shocked if they have the tech to analyze products in pictures. Like, looking at if you're in a lot of pictures drinking beers or something, so they better know the types of products to sell to you.

Facebook has designed an AI that can only predict identity with the same percentage of accuracy as my knowledge of math on my first Grade 8 maths test?

This technology is dumb and it should feel dumb.

You're reacting as if this tech is child's play. This is incredibly advanced. At 83 percent, that means that they will correctly identify you in more than 4 out of 5 pictures.

And give it a few years to improve.

 

[liliththepale]

This is core to their experience.

Facebook is VERY interested in cataloging every person and what activities they are partaking in.

Remember, if you're not paying for things, you're the product. The more Facebook can know about people, the better they can sell you to their actual customers: the advertising companies.

I wouldn't be shocked if they have the tech to analyze products in pictures. Like, looking at if you're in a lot of pictures drinking beers or something, so they better know the types of products to sell to you.

Yeah, that's a good point. And it goes both ways. They see you use a lot of X, so they'll try to sell you more X, but they'll also be able to tell the makers of X that their customers are doing/using A, B and C.

Personally, that makes me happy. I get so bored from commercials trying to sell me on a product I can't or wouldn't ever use, yet appreciate being properly advertised to. Hell, we make an event out of E3 which is basically just a big ol' custom-tailored advertisement. So stuff like this is certainly making the world a better place.

 

[BIONIC-ARRRMMM!!]

We can finally find out who this guy really was:

Not even Facebook can crack this code, brother.

 

[Rookje]

 

[kess]

come at me

 

[Darth Karja]

They should licence this tech to adult entertainment sites so people can search for pornstars based on their body features.

This is the best thing this tech could be used for.

 

[Transhuman]

You're reacting as if this tech is child's play. This is incredibly advanced. At 83 percent, that means that they will correctly identify you in more than 4 out of 5 pictures.

And give it a few years to improve.

When the algorithm can identify people on a scale of 1 to 10 of how bangable they are, that's when I admit that humans are no longer relevant.

 

[M3d10n]

The end of anonymous dick pics?

 

[perfectchaos007]

The end of anonymous dick pics?

I snapchat that whole shit. Tryin to see titty tryin to show dick

 

[Barajas_201]

Has anyone seen Psycho-Pass?

Spoiler

This can't be good

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[Reversed]

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