The image may contain ...: Facebook breakdown reveals automatically generated descriptions

Yesterday, photos were not available on Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. This bug allowed users to discover image descriptions generated automatically by the social network ... The images may contain people (sometimes smiling), a plane, a stadium and even food. Facebook generates photo descriptions automatically When you upload a photo to Facebook, the social network analyzes your image and tries to isolate the elements in it. Facebook generates a description and stores this information in the Alt tag of uploaded photos. This process helps to increase accessibility: if your connection is too slow, for example, you know what's in the photos you can not load, because the browser automatically replaces uncharged photos with the contents of this tag. The image may contain a person ... If the premise is commendable, the reality is much more creepy when Facebook's servers are stranded. Yesterday, a bug affected photos and videos on Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. On the other Rajput Status vediostatus.com Hindi | Royal Rajput Status | Rajputana Status In English | Rajput Attitude Status | Rajput Love Status | Rajput Shayari hand, the sites were accessible. Result: all photos were replaced by the contents of this famous Alt tag. My profile pictures often contain 1 person in close-up (and sometimes I smile, maybe). Users have discovered the descriptions generated by Facebook, with some excitement. The majority of people affected by the bug were unaware of this practice of Facebook: some were surprised at the relevance of the legends generated, others a little scared to discover that Facebook had recognized them ... And as they could not Publish their screenshots on Facebook, they turned to Twitter to share self-generated descriptions. Oh yeah! I forgot Facebook uses machine learning to tag our photos with what it sees in the picture. To be fair, "one person, beard" is pretty much a spot-on description of me. pic.twitter.com/fCpydUxtpz - Zack Whittaker (@zackwhittaker) July 3, 2019 Jesse Revesz @JesseRevesz I went to wish my buddy a happy birthday and with Facebook being down, instead of showing a picture it’s this creepy robot analyzed description. We are screwed View image on Twitter 40 1:44 PM - Jul 3, 2019 Twitter Ads info and privacy See Jesse Revesz's other Tweets Stephanie Farr ✔ @FarFarrAway Anybody else experiencing @facebook weirdness? Some photos posted by friends aren't showing up & instead I'm getting a written description of them: "Image may contain one or more people outdoors" "Imagine may contain shoes." It's not happening on all photos but definitely some. View image on TwitterView image on Twitter 13 11:34 AM - Jul 3, 2019 Twitter Ads info and privacy 15 people are talking about this Geoff Wood @geoffwood The text description of this broken Facebook photo is also Rajput Status vediostatus.com Hindi | Royal Rajput Status | Rajputana Status In English | Rajput Attitude Status | Rajput Love Status | Rajput Shayari true of about 90% of the photos on my phone. #ImageMayContainDog #facebookdown View image on Twitter 15 8:46 AM - Jul 3, 2019 Twitter Ads info and privacy See Geoff Wood's other Tweets https://twitter.com/CDKTX/status/1146537047768948736 Juan $tockton @JOHN__JUAN Media on Facebook is not loading for me. This metadata description of my default is pretty accurate though, they just forgot "handsome." View image on Twitter 9 11:20 AM - Jul 3, 2019 Twitter Ads info and privacy See Juan $tockton's other Tweets The Facebook bug is now fixed, but you can still look at the descriptions generated by Facebook on your photos. To do this, use a computer, right-click on the photo of your choice, and click "Inspect" or "Examine". You will see how Facebook interprets your photos discreetly!