The One Where Flickr Thinks Ethan is a Bird

Peter Rukavina

Flickr has a “magic view” on its Camera Roll tab that auto-tags images.

Generally it really is quite magic-seeming.

It can find bicycles, for example:

But sometimes it misfires. Like when it thought [[Ethan]] was a bird:

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Submitted by Oli on

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I can kind of see why Flickr was confused. Something about his posture in that picture suggests poultry to me.

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