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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.

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.
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.

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.
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.