It's, it's, a red-and-blue striped golfing umbrella... Facebook teaches its online tat bazaar to auto-identify stuff for sale

Facebook has revamped Marketplace, a platform where users can buy and sell stuff, with a bunch of AI-powered features that, it claims, can automatically recognize and label objects in pictures as well as transform 2D images into a 3D view. At the heart of what it calls its “universal computer vision system” is a model called …

[Anonymous Coward]

It's, it's, a red-and-blue striped golfing umbrella

A female aardvark?

[David 132]

Re: It's, it's, a red-and-blue striped golfing umbrella

The Bolivian Navy on manoeuvres in the South Pacific?

[Kane]

Re: It's, it's, a red-and-blue striped golfing umbrella

It's a small, off-duty Czechoslovakian traffic warden!

[David 132]

Re: It's, it's, a red-and-blue striped golfing umbrella

It's a banana.

It's an orange.

It's an apple.

"Hey, you taught him that? That's terrific! You guys should audition for What's My Fruit!"

[Anonymous Coward]

Hahahahahahahahha.

I see absolutely no way this is going to go horribly wrong for buyers, and wonderfully well for FB and scammers. Nope. None at all. FB certainly will not deny and fault in their least effort attempt with lowest overheads and supply of a service while taking the highest cut, and are in no way emulating Ebay with even less work (is that possible?).

[Pascal Monett]

Rotating View

That sounds awesome. Give four or five pics of a chair and get a full 3D view of it. Wow. That is a worthy accomplishment.

Too bad it's done by a privacy-invading ad monster.

[BenDwire]

Re: Rotating View

But enough people don't care or understand. They only want cool new tech to show off to their followers.

If I want a 3D representaion, then I'll go to a shop, and buy it from there.

[Glen 1]

Re: Rotating View

"If I want a 3D representaion..."

www.thingiverse.com

[Anonymous Coward]

Buyers interested in a particular item can describe what they're looking for

So if I ask for an intimate feminine cleansing device, will it show me a picture of their CEO?

[[e-mail]]

Be afraid. Be very afraid.

"Going one step further, it would advance visual search to make your real-world environment shoppable. If you see something you like (clothing, furniture, electronics, etc.), you could snap a photo of it and the system would find that exact item, as well as several similar ones to purchase right then and there.”

Setting aside any issues of potential vendors paying to have their products bumped up the list of "similar ones to purchase right there and then", how long before they decide to create a 'dating' app and add this to Facebook... "Hey! You've photographed the person standing in the doorway to your left! Here are a dozen similar-looking people in your area!" And even if they should somehow resist the temptation to monetise that sort of thing, you can bet other people will take advantage of the possibilities it offers...

[MiguelC]

Re: "even if they should somehow resist the temptation to monetise"

HAHAHAHAHA BWAAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAH AAAHHHHHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHHHAAAAA!!!!!

Got any other good ones?

[Cynic_999]

Better than seller's description/keywords?

If a seller is able to falsify their description of the product, surely they can also falsify a photograph of the product? In any case, if I am searching for an item, I'd much rather have the search based upon the seller's description than an AI interpretation of photographs.

[IGotOut]

Re: Better than seller's description/keywords?

Yeah, they are stock images, library pictures or simply lifted off the web.

eBay is rammed full off them, so it will be nothing different here.

[IGotOut]

Just get it over with..

give us the pill, stick us in some goo and just give us everything YOU think we should see, hear, feal, smell and touch.