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@ReggieHere@mastodon.social

2026-09-15 15:44 UTC

Sounds like Meta may be building a universal face database. Why do I think this? Well, because a Meta spokesperson has told WIRED, "One decision we can be clear about—we are not building a universal face database.” https://www.wired.com/story/i-felt-super-violated-men-wearing-meta-glasses-on-dates-is-an-instant-red-flag/

Replies (10)

  • @ReggieHere@mastodon.social Almost like we should own our own images and decide if others can access them

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  • @McWabbit@tenforward.social 2026-09-15 17:08

    @ReggieHere@mastodon.social Epstein Island II, who needs sex slave recruiters if your consumers provide a near endless stream of data?

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  • @ReggieHere@mastodon.social @aral@mastodon.ar.al Don’t be silly, they’re creating a huge collection of individual face databases that they can query. That’s not at all the same thing…

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  • @bcasiello@floss.social 2026-09-15 21:48

    @ReggieHere@mastodon.social It is currently targeted at our own solar system ONLY. Maybe galactic… but definitely NOT universal. Currently.

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  • @ReggieHere@mastodon.social they are building a facetovec darabase

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  • @paculino@tech.lgbt 2026-09-16 17:51

    @ReggieHere@mastodon.social I ran into my lookalike a few years ago. I keep flipping back and forth between that making me more or less concerned. Far greater chance of a face like mine showing up, but also plausible deniability maybe (but maybe not in my favour).

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  • @Deixis9@beige.party 2026-09-17 12:30

    @ReggieHere@mastodon.social Beware of FB posts offering to do fun stuff to photos of your face for free. And probably don't put a visual record of your kid's whole childhood on there either?

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  • @ModernMaslow@techhub.social 2026-09-17 12:40

    @ReggieHere@mastodon.social So LG was only following Meta's lead?..

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  • @kirch@tilde.zone 2026-09-19 14:39

    @ReggieHere@mastodon.social sticking to their roots of stealing photos of people for their own personal gain 😭

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  • @Lily_and_frog@mastodon.art 2026-09-19 15:23

    @ReggieHere@mastodon.social They're not building a universal face database. And the big data centres they're burning billions to build are for chatbots only. And all the data they're selling to hundreds of brokers is purely to improve your experience by showing relevant ads and content... So even if they have the tech to know where every single person is at any given time even if they're not on their platform, they won't use it this way. And they've got a monorail to sell you.

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