Facebook
automatically turns man's near-fatal car
crash into a
happy slideshow
You try, Facebook. You really do.
The social media network unleashed a new feature to its mobile app in June which
automatically turns your photos
into a
slideshow video, complete with music and silly graphics. But like other
Facebook bots, the feature lacks sensitivity, such as its Year in Review feature that
stirred up some bad memories for some of its users previously.*
Recently,
Josh Gibson learned that the
slideshow video lacks the same empathy when
Facebook turned a video of his car accident
into a quirky video.*
In the Reddit comments where Gibson originally posted the video,
he explains that the video
Facebook made was only available for him to view at first, but "it was too funny **t to share."*
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