Last week, we told you about the potential dangers of Facebook’s new auto-tagging facial recognition feature. Apparently, its powers can be used for good, too!
U.S. Marine Corps Maj. Charles Carte said he has spent the last several years looking for his half-brother, a child his dad fathered while stationed in the Philippines during the Vietnam War.
After uploading an old photo of their papa, Carte’s sister got a strange friend suggestion – someone who uploaded a picture that appeared to be their father.
According to 10News, “Carte believes Facebook matched a picture of his father from 1965 to a picture showing Carte as a boy with his father in 1972.
“It had to be this. There’s no other way around it,” said Carte. “We didn’t have any mutual friends.”
Dad hasn’t seen his son in 45 years.
Their contact has been online only for the time being, but Carte is excited to learn more about his brother, and they plan to speak over the phone soon.
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Copy & paste this:
inb4LOL
You make me happy!
Forever alone, much?
In fact, you’re not “inb4 LOL”. You’re called LOL. So you were here before you could say you were here before yourself. Your statement is a paradox, so you’ll self-destruct like the robot you are.
The statement below is false
The statement above is true
This statement is false.
damnit!
(the set of all numbers that are not part of a set)
The statement above is true
Oh sh-
^male.
so… who were the idiots that thumbs downed this post?
Me, this is not a fail and is not funny. It should fúck off to a news site or some wóméns’ magazine site.
Inb4ROFL
Happy now?
No : (
You are me?
Fail.
One day science will achieve the ultimate goal: turning a man into a chicken!
Wherein he will engage Rhode Island’s citizenry in extended hand-to-hand combat.
I knew they were chickens! Does the winner get to fight Michael Jackson?
(Gone) Too soon. Why don’t you just to the heck
*pot smoking towel
*smot toking powel
*tit poking octagon
*meat smoking octopus
Put a man in front of an ungry lion and he WILL turn into a chicken…
The military does it the other way around. Turning chicken into men.
We were at the beach.
Everybody had matching towels.
Somebody went under a dock.
And there they saw a rock.
It wasn’t a rock…
ROCK LOBSTER
*sock
*lock
*shock
*co…
*stork
C-C-C-COMBO BREAKER
Very nice story.
concur with this.
Nice Llama!
Your a nice Llama!
C’mon Torch…. *You’re!
Geez! : P
sorry my language/grammer is not good.
: P
Hey, no licking!
u mad?
doesn’t metter.
*dose’n't
*doesn’t
*matter
Thank you.
Welcome : )
Wow, an actual post about the topic at hand! Congrats! Yes, it is a nice story, but I’m curious about why he hasn’t seen his father in 45 years, and if dad knows where the brother is, etc. etc.
I was waiting for someone to actually comment on the actual post, and I agree. This is a really great story. The wonders of modern tech.
This is so fun.
*sigh* Noone? Fine.
*clears throat* That’s what she said.
Why is this funny? dumb yes funny no
Hmm…all may not be so wonderful… “When 10News contacted Facebook about Carte’s story, the company insisted that its facial recognition technology is not used to suggest new friends.
“Facebook’s face recognition technology is only used to suggest friends for photo tagging, not to suggest new friends,” said Kyla Keefe who works for The OutCast Agency, a public relations firm that represents Facebook.”
I call shenanigans.
I love shenanigans!
I’m glad. Bc that sounded a little BS-y to me. lol.
Lies I tell you! I blame facebook lobbying trying to push face recognition software.
I think it’s a terrible idea… there’s no reason you should be able to post a pic on fb and find out who that person is. It’ll be a whole new level of PedoBear insanity!!
agreed… the creepers out there are twisting in their perverted creep seats for this tech
*opts out
The new Google has a feature where you can post a digital photo and it will tell you exactly where the photo was taken. Scrry.
That is scary! I dont like it!!
your mobile encodes all this information in the picture itself.
Yeah, my iPhone does that. It is simultaneously cool and creepy though
Oh sh!t Skynet is self-aware!
Seconded.
ƒake story, bros! Facial recognition only suggests people from your friends list…
“Facebook, which uses facial recognition software, groups similar photos together and whenever possible, the company says it suggests the names of friends to help users tag their photos.” BS
* => BS
What’s that 10news and why do they write internally inconsistent “news” stories?
It could very well have been a coincidence. He posted the photo and got the suggestion shortly after, I’ve posted photos and have gotten suggestions for people who look like someone I posted. It is odd but not unheard of.
Yeah, most certainly a coincidence…
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COOL STORY BRO
STOOL BORY CRO
FOOL MORY TRO
c-c-c-c-c-combo breaker!
[Nerd voice] Technically, this was just a c-combo breaker. You see, the number of c’s count the number of combos, and obviously the first one doesn’t count. The f’rst one would be a one hit wonder, not a combo. All the comments after the f’rst one are used to count the amount of combo, so this would technically be a c-combo breaker.
As a matter effect, the c-c-c-chain in a c-c-c-combo breaker resembles the chain of carbon atoms in a hydrocarbon. The carbon atoms are not really lined up in a straight line though, that is just for visualisation purposes. Double bonds, like in alkenes, can also be visualised this way: c=c-c=c=c-c=combo breaker.
In nature, a carbon atom almost never binds, not even loosely, to an ombo. [/Nerd voice]
[nerd voice] Oops, I borked the comments. Please have fun while you wait for the
gmods to repair your favourite comment section.[/nerd voice]Ooh, double carbon bonds. I love it when you talk nerdy to me.
*fans self*
Saturate me with your nerdy goodness. What do you say you and I go back to my place and form some covalent bonds?
Covalent bonding aye? I sure like your electronegativity enough to share my fundamental particles with you, albeit loosely…
Nice job blurring the kid’s face… You can now almost NOT recognise him!
I don’t recognize him.
The kid on the right looks retarded…
And your point is???
I like turtles.
I like trains.
wow
why is this on failblog?
*failbook
*faildog
*fainted dog
Let’s see.. first one doesn’t count… so..
c-c-combo breaker!
The dad was hooooot