Facebook is Using Instagram Photos and Hashtags To Improve Its Computer Vision (venturebeat.com) 45
Facebook today revealed that, using 3.5 billion publicly shared Instagram photos and their accompany hashtags, its computer system has achieved new advances, with a 85.4 percent accuracy rate when used on ImageNet, a well-known benchmark dataset. From a report: The results were shared onstage at F8, Facebook's annual developer conference taking place today at McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, California. Other news announced at F8 this year include the release of Oculus Go, new Facebook Stories sharing capabilities, and the reopening of app and bot reviews following the Cambridge Analytica scandal. See the full rundown here. The results of Facebook's research mean that its computer vision in the real world can see more specific subsets, so instead of just saying "food," it's Indian or Italian cuisine; not just "bird" but a cedar waxwing; not just "man in a white suit" but a clown.
Copyright violation (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Copyright violation (Score:5, Informative)
You know that little checkbox you have to click after reading two librairies' worth of legalese before you can use these free online services? You agreed to almost every possible usage of your data.
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Yes, but this is Instagram....
Yes, I know FB bought Instagram, but what if you had your agreements with IG before FB bought them....were the original IG TOS as bad as what FB does?
Wouldn't you be held to the original TOS you signed up with?
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It is pretty common to have a few clauses in these types of agreements
1) clauses may be updated at any time without notice
2) if [company] is ever purchased by anyone, new company has the same rights that were initially granted to [company]
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Copyright restricts nothing that is not distributed.
Re:Again with FaceBook? (Score:4, Informative)
Whenever a large tech conference happens, there is a burst of posts about that particular company. No different than when Google, Apple, or Microsoft holds major tech conferences. This is the norm of Slashdot and wont change.
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An ad company does not have tech. It has software to collect all its users.
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Well, that ought to be interesting to attend. You have a bunch of suits presenting the usual batch of mine-our-user's-data products and you have a bunch of attendees thinking "I wonder how much of this will still be around in two months." If anything, it should work to help companies negotiate better prices for the data they buy from Facebook (and we heard about Facebook's "close elevator door / erase some data" button yesterday), but I'm still not sure how the consu
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Facebook (company) is more than just Facebook (website). For instance, they were showing off some new Oculus VR stuff there. Not everyone is into VR gaming, I get that, but it is a hot topic right now that Facebook (company) is heavily involved with. That's the type of stuff at this conference as well.
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Especially when you are dealing with a PR timebomb that has you in the sights of establishment liberals who think Facebook stole the election from Hillary, fringe conservatives annoyed that Facebook has assembled a pre-weaponized Orwellian database, and ordinary citizens worried that a Facebook is clamping down on free speech all at the same time.
Birds (Score:2)
I love how every day we're getting closer and closer to having XKCD become reality! https://xkcd.com/1425/ [xkcd.com]
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Current capabilities (Score:3)
Facebook's current "vision" capabilities are already pretty impressive. You can right-click any image in your feed and choose "Inspect element", dig down to the element, and look at the "alt" attribute to see what Facebook thinks is in that image. A sampling of my current feed:
Image may contain: 5 people, people smiling, people standing
Image may contain: dog
Image may contain: car and outdoor
Image may contain: pizza and food
Image may contain: text
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Well the manufacturing part is pretty simple and cheap (usually). Maintenance can be an absolute fuckmare depending on child support regulations in your jurisdiction however.
But on an aside what's the going market rate on off-brand 2 year olds (made in china or india, as those are traditionally far cheaper than western versions)?
One would think FOSTA/SESTA would have had dramatic effects on price, or is it still too early to tell?
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You planning on providing 2 year olds to identify cars vs fish 24/7?
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You must be easily impressed. Any 2 year old can discern a car from a fish with 100% reliability. Computers can't.
Given how people tag photos, I'd say that many grown-ups can't either. And I think this is the big flaw with the system; it lets just everyone tag.
So you get dolphins tagged as "fish", raspberries tagged as "cannabis", computer cases tagged as "hard drive" and "cpu", and the flag of Ireland tagged as "Italy".
Unless you pay good people a good salary to do a good job, you'll get crap results. Because, quite frankly, there are an awful lot of well-meaning ignoramuses out there.
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And now apparently, they'll be able to add such informative categories as "#fml" and "#yolo"
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I just checked a couple of pictures, and the only things it got right was that there were people in it, and outdoors. All the other stuff like count of people, what they were doing, etc. was way off.
Time to muck up the works (Score:1)
It's time to mess with the Facebook algorithms, start a mass movement to apply nonsensical hashtags to every photo posted. It's like when I answer signup questions, I always choose the 1/1/1900 or 1/1/1970 depending on how permissive the signup form is, feed the beast with as much bogus data as possible so that their algorithms can't do anything useful.
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Jian-Yang (Score:2)
FB clearly hasn't grasped the nature of GDPR (Score:2)
And neither have Instagram, Messenger and the rest of them. GDPR requires that the data subject gives explicit consent, separately, to each use of their data. This really powerful stuff and, at the same time, totally alien to FB, Google et al. It isn't even as if the words in the regulations are unclear or writing in high faluting legalese:
Article 7.
1.Where processing is based on consent, the controller shall be able to demonstrate that the data subject has consented to processing of his or her personal dat