Facial Recognition Software Facebook Abandoned

According to a recent blog post from Facebook, they stopped the facial recognition software photo tagging program crucial to its brand for several years.

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According to a recent blog post from Facebook, they stopped the facial recognition software photo tagging program crucial to its brand for several years. In addition, they are deleting over a billion “faceprints” of users.

“Those who decided to have chosen to go into our face recognition setting will not be automatically recognized any longer in videos and photos, as well as we decided to delete the facial recognition template that was designed to be used to identify them,” said Jerome Pesenti, vice president of Facebook’s artificial intelligence program.

Facial Recognition Software Facebook Abandoned

Mainly, Pesenti is talking about Facebook’s photo-tagging system. It automatically identifies the user and friends in their photos uploaded to the platform, which proposed that they be “tagged” in those videos or pictures.

Photo tagging was an essential Facebook feature and was one of the critical things people would do on Facebook, now named the metaverse.