Re:Facebook is convinced this man is his mother
by JoeAltmaier on Thursday September 11, 2014 @07:42AM
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Facebooks algorithm is spooky. Early on my son labeled his cousin as "Dad's brother's daughter". Later that week it had changed magically to 'cousin'.
I do not doubt Facebook is running into problems because humans have a 3-dimensional perspective of time and events. It's the classic "why isn't mommy in any photos with us dad?" because she took them! Dad remembers, he was there. He's not seeing the photographs perspective, he's seeing his own perspective standing with his kids looking at his wife. To him his wife is in that photo even though she is visibly absent.