Is Facebook eliminating facial recognition? Yes. No. Both answers are true, and neither of them reveal the whole picture. Sometimes a media headline leaves out something significant.
First, the "yes" details. Jerome Presenti, VP of artificial intelligence at Meta (fb's parent company), says: 'Meta will shut down the Face Recognition system on Facebook . . people who have opted in to our Face Recognition setting will no longer be automatically recognized in photos and videos, and we will delete the facial recognition template used to identify them."
That will amount to "more than 1 billion people’s individual facial recognition templates." A billion is a lot of people, considering that U.S. population is 330 million, and the population of the whole world is 7.8 billion.
Did they all trust Facebook to create a digitally recognizable visual of their own face? That could identify them in any picture or video posted in the world forever? That's a lot of trust.
But no worries, because now all that visual personal ID is going to be destroyed . . right?
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