Instagram promises to fix bug after always accessing the camera on iOS 14

Re:Instagram promises to fix bug after always accessing the ... by addicted on Saturday July 25, 2020 @06:38PM (#23952922)

My wife, on me telling her about this, pointed the most obvious way Instagram could be using this, without storing, recording, or transmitting anything.

As you scroll your feed, they analyze your face, and use your expressions to see how you feel about a particular post. It’s like “likes” on steroids.

They already have the face detection, expression detection, etc code built into their app through the filters and those act in real time and locally. It would be super easy to redirect that towards analyzing user expressions in response to posts they may be reading at the time.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Instagram promises to fix bug after always accessing the ... by mgraczyk on Saturday July 25, 2020 @08:33PM (#23953464)

If only battery life/processing/machine learning were that good. It's possible companies would do things like this if were technically feasible, but we're a long way away (I work on camera ML at IG).

The correct answer to what is going on is Facebook's official response in the article.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Instagram promises to fix bug after always accessing the ... by notnap on Saturday July 25, 2020 @08:56PM (#23953579)

Battery life always takes a dive when you have Fb apps installed, including Instagram.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Instagram promises to fix bug after always accessing the ... by addicted on Sunday July 26, 2020 @12:23AM (#23954428)

Do Instagram filters destroy battery life?

Because that’s all they need. And even less than normal because you don’t need to figure out bunny ears and exaggerated smiles. Simply whether a person is smiling or not.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Instagram promises to fix bug after always accessing the ... by CardenB on Sunday July 26, 2020 @03:23AM (#23955120)

Can you link to me a project hat does facial sentiment analysis in an efficient way? Actually curious if it’s possible to do this without hurting battery life much.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Instagram promises to fix bug after always accessing the ... by Nextgrid on Sunday July 26, 2020 @11:41AM (#23957874)

They can always cache the data and do the processing at a later time when your device is charging and/or when you do something resource-intensive (like uploading a video, etc) to conceal the extra resource usage.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Instagram promises to fix bug after always accessing the ... by wackget on Saturday July 25, 2020 @10:39PM (#23953980)

I utterly despise all things FB, but seriously... citation needed.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Instagram promises to fix bug after always accessing the ... by addicted on Sunday July 26, 2020 @12:22AM (#23954424)

Citation needed for what?

It’s obvious speculation.

But it makes a lot of sense.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Instagram promises to fix bug after always accessing the ... by temporary12345 on Sunday July 26, 2020 @05:19AM (#23955648)

UFOs speculations also make a lot of sense, they are reasonable explanations why cows are missing.

But there are no evidence to believe it is a malicious intent. Just speculations.

[ Parent | on HN ]