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[–] TerdFerguson@lemmy.world 25 points 3 days ago (2 children)

One decision we can be clear about—we are not building a central face database

… because of course we aren’t. We already have one and it’s AMAZING.

[–] badgermurphy@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

...the site is called "FaceBook", though? And it has a database of, among other things, faces. I'm not sure who these guys think they are kidding.

[–] TerdFerguson@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

No no no, it's not a central database at all. It's distributed globally across many geographic locales, nothing central about it. Lots of redundancies too, it's available everywhere all of the time. :S

[–] SpacetimeMachine@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Or rather, "we" aren't, but palantir is.

[–] floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 days ago

Face tagging has been a feature since the early days. Facebook by itself is a central database of face data, you just need to plug into it. I don't know how anyone could think otherwise, especially after CA