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it's not about what it means for this community, where we all know the shortcut to the dev console in chrome. this is about regular users of Facebook having their own "they live" moments on social media. where they can see plainly how Facebook regards them as consumers. "oh just show him pictures of DRINK and TEXT, that's all he's into anyways".


"They Live" is a great comparison. Of course this isn't new to someone on HN who follows this technology and the companies using it for a living, but for my uncle who just posts pictures of his dog it's a bit shocking to see that the computer knows that it's (likely) a picture of a dog next to a tree, even if he was aware on some level that computers these days are capable of that kind of classification.




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