Image Recognition
(Photo by Anthony WALLACE / AFP) / The erroneous mention[s] appearing in the metadata of this photo by Anthony WALLACE has been modified in AFP systems in the following manner: [a poster of the famous ‘Tank Man’] instead of [a poster showing the famous Jeff Widener’s ‘Tank Man’ photo]. “Tank man” is often used to describe an unidentified person famously pictured standing before tanks in China’s Tiananmen Square during pro-democracy demonstrations in June 1989. Microsoft said the issue was “due to an accidental human error and we are actively working to resolve this.”Smaller search engines such as DuckDuckGo that license results from Microsoft faced similar issues around “tank man” searches and said they expected a fix soon. Rival Google showed many results for the famous image when the “tank man” search was performed on Friday. China is known to require search engines operating in its jurisdiction to censor results, but those restrictions are rarely applied elsewhere.