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Do you use facial recognition from the Facebook in your day to day? Available since December 2017, the feature is used both to help you tag people in a photo and to help the visually impaired using audio description apps. But soon, know that this use will not be necessary due to a change that the company is making. This means that all files referring to people's photos will be deleted. 3f2z2a
This drastic change takes place amid a name change of the company that manages the Facebook and other Mark Zuckeberg, where it was mentioned that privacy is one of the points that the company has focused on. The alternative text in Facebook will also go through changes, understand everything right now.
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In the midst of falls and even data sales that were available to the entire public, today it was announced that the facial recognition of the Facebook will be discontinued in the next few weeks. The company hopes to revolutionize the facial recognition market and encourage more companies to do so. It is not yet known why this happened, but it is speculated that the feature had no other use than tagging people in photos and ing alternative text, useful for people with disabilities.
However, in February of this year, the Facebook needed to make a $650 million deal due to one of the features of tagging people in a photo becoming mandatory. In the process, it was decided that the company was scanning people's faces without their consent — this was optional until 2019. Jerome Pesenti, Facebook's Vice President of Artificial Intelligence, cited that facial recognition is still quite promising, but it needs to be very careful. .
“Looking to the future, we still see facial recognition technology as a powerful tool, for example, for people who need to their identity or to prevent identity fraud and forgery. We believe facial recognition can help products like these with privacy, transparency and control, so it's up to you if and how your face is used. We will continue to work on these technologies and involve external experts.
In the same publication, it was mentioned that more than a billion profiles with images and names of people will be deleted. It is important to mention that at the same time, AI services that used this data as a basis to improve themselves will not be deleted.
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By deleting all profiles created through facial recognition in Facebook, the blue social network will also stop giving tagging suggestions on photos that are posted by anyone. Even because, there will be no more information for the identification to be made. Furthermore, this same information that was used to create alt text on photos in Facebook will also no longer exist.
You know that notification you always get when a possible photo where you appear is posted? In the next few weeks, this will no longer happen. Everything about what the Facebook knows about you and your face will be deleted from the social network. This is a way to increase both privacy and trust that the social network es on to its s.
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Entering the scope of privacy and use of data that you provide to the social network, the Meta (Facebook's new name) hopes that this change will impact how the site is using the data it has in its database. Today, facial recognition outside the Facebook it has several functions, such as unlocking phones and is even used in banking transactions.
Looking more at Meta's current moment, she is more focused on covering her face than actually having it on her record.
The investment in Mark Zuckerberg will hire over 10 people for this project. So it makes sense that Facebook's facial recognition would be discontinued.
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face recognition was used to alternative text in images in the Facebook was increasingly assertive. If you are not used to it, this is the information read by applications and devices used by the visually impaired. In practice, artificial intelligence could tell who was in a photo through this.
Now, with the facial recognition of the Facebook being discontinued, it will only be possible to know how many people are in a photo. Previously, an artificial intelligence system was being used just to generate this information, but now this will not have as much .
That way, who else loses from the elimination of facial recognition from the Facebook are the people who used the alt text creation feature. We can only wait for more information from the company to know what will be done about this loss.
It was mentioned by the company that the Automatic AltText (AAT) currently identifies 4% of all photos that are on Facebook. The social network will also work with this audience to continue delivering a channel accessible to everyone.
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