Facebook machine learning technology improves; Redditors alaramed.

Re:Facebook machine learning technology improves; Redditors ... by iamandrus on Wednesday December 21, 2011 @11:16PM (#3380358)

I never entered anything into the location field (I would have remembered doing it), yet it got the exact city and state where I took the photos.

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Re:Facebook machine learning technology improves; Redditors ... by modeless on Thursday December 22, 2011 @02:18AM (#3380743)

You specifically remember leaving a form field blank on a web page three years ago?

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Re:Facebook machine learning technology improves; Redditors ... by iamandrus on Thursday December 22, 2011 @04:08AM (#3380944)

I would have remembered when the message to tag the location of my photos came up.

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Re:Facebook machine learning technology improves; Redditors ... by sgibat on Thursday December 22, 2011 @05:23AM (#3381083)

It didn't work like that. It was a plain blank text field among a couple other blank text fields. No search was brought up upon data entry. Very innocuous; Perhaps that why you don't remember it.

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Re:Facebook machine learning technology improves; Redditors ... by iamandrus on Friday December 23, 2011 @02:33AM (#3385022)

Believe me, I would have remembered doing it. I wouldn't have cared about a location tagging message if I had entered the location manually. Not to mention I couldn't even remember the names of some of the cities where the photos were taken until Facebook suggested them to me.

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