GIF Saturday returns…again…after a bout of negligence.

I found this adorable vintage picture of a gang of French children—you can tell they are French because of the baguette, and you can tell they are children because most of them aren’t wearing pants—and I knew I’d want to use it for something so I saved it to my phone.

In another one of Google’s endless meddlings, they auto-awesome’d the picture—again—without my knowledge. I was doing my quarterly “I guess I’ll see what all these Google+ notifications are about” check and that’s when I noticed it. This loved up portrait.

The amazing/terrifying thing here is that the Google system could tell that there were people hugging in this photo, and assumed love. Which is fine. But that just makes it all the more clear that Google is actually LOOKING at your photos. Not just scanning for similarities (i.e. 5 pictures in a row with basically the same framing + subject placement and turning it into a gif, or sun flare and adding sparking lights). They saw this picture and decided it was a loving situation and added moving cartoon hearts.

The future is now, people, and it’s presumptuous.