When Apple followed in the footsteps of Google Photos by offering an easy recognition solution within its eponymous app, many questioned the merits of the initiative giventhe security guarantees promised by the Apple firm. Since then, however, the tool has continued on its merry way so that we now find it on all iPhones and all iPads on the planet.
Logically, the publisher behind this success has since worked hard to make it more efficient. To do this, the software then learned to detect not only the physiognomy but also the shapes of the bust. Understand that the program will clearly be able to tell the difference between your somewhat overweight cousin and your much more frail older colleague, what's more if they both come from different ethnic groups, even if the image is truncated at the level of their neck.
No quarter for strangers
No offense to thealternatives by Leonardo Selvaggio, Adam Harvey or Zach Blas, the feat does not stop there. Indeed, Apple Photos can also be based on the clothes you wear and your various accessories in order to get a handle on your identity. This is also the case for the poses adopted when capturing the photo.
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So many criteria which - although the program in question is worthy of a major technological prize - risk unleashing passions among both confidentiality addicts and civil rights defenders. All we have to do is remember thescandale de Tay, Microsoft's artificial intelligence publishing on its own Twitter account and also using deep learning, to doubt the advantages of such a system.
No deactivation possible
At the moment this update is not available to everyone. Apple explains in a blog post published on its site that the new feature only concerns the version of Photos for iOS 15. However,this version is published in beta version only. The most daring can, however, access it with a few risky maneuvers, always not recommended on a device used daily for personal purposes.
As for those who would like to do without face recognition... Everything suggests that it is impossible, even under iOS 14. On our iPhone, the option runs in the background and no setting allows it to be touched. It is only possible to delete one person at a time from an automatically generated album, but the customization stops there. Unlike Google Photos, where this manual setting is well offered.
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