It's only unsettling if you are completely unfamiliar with the machine learning field. FAIR publishes research in many ML/AI fields. They're responsible for plenty of advances and contributions.
I’m not sure that’s what was meant by unsettling…
Kinda puts a spin on the "face" in "facebook"
It literally puts a spin on it, actually!
Didn’t Facebook just get sued for illegally harvesting faces & tags of people? If derivatives of that data make it into research like this, where does that stand from a legal perspective?