https://blogs.lotterypost.com/konane/2018/9/how-instagrams-algorithms-are-fueling-americ.htm konane's Blog: How Instagram's Algorithms Are Fueling America's Drug Crisis en-us Lottery Post RSS Generator https://blogs.lotterypost.com/konane/2018/9/how-instagrams-algorithms-are-fueling-americ.htm https://blogs.lotterypost.com/konane/2018/9/how-instagrams-algorithms-are-fueling-americ.htm Fri, 28 Sep 2018 17:53:24 GMT konane They have AI to shadow-ban/block conservative posts, conservative groups yet their AI is under development to find drug posts. Yep makes perfect sense ... NOT.

How Instagram's Algorithms Are Fueling America's Drug Crisis

Facebook s vice president for global marketing solutions, Carolyn Everson, told The Washington Post that Facebook and Instagram were in the development stages of artificial-intelligence tools that could flag drug content. She said it was similar to Facebook s efforts, in 2015, when it built software to detect the Islamic State accounts. Now they are building visual classifiers that can recognize photographs of particular pills and detect common patterns, such as the inclusion of a phone number to move the transaction onto an encrypted messaging platform.

Ultimately, in September, Instagram - which is owned by the world's largest social network - came up with a solution by launching a pop-up notification that appears when someone searches hashtags for opioids, prescription medications or illegal drugs. The pop-up instructs people to seek help for drug abuse.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-09-28/instagrams-algorithms-are-fueling-americas-drug-crisis

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