Image recognition

What a single photo reveals about you

Even the smallest image details allow potentially far-reaching conclusions to be drawn.(Bild: Steven (KI-generiert) – stock.adobe.com)

A picture is worth a thousand words, and pictures are plentiful in the age of social media. For tech companies, they are a perfect opportunity to train their artificial intelligence and draw potentially far-reaching conclusions from the photos. One website illustrates just how frighteningly well this works.

According to estimates, around 95 million photos and videos are uploaded to Instagram alone every day. If you include other platforms such as WhatsApp or Facebook, more than five billion photos are shared worldwide every day. An impressive figure - especially when you consider that no one actually knows exactly what happens to the files once they have been uploaded.