Thursday, May 3, 2018

46 355 | Facebook harvested 3.5 billion Instagram images without warning their owners until today, May 3, 2018


SOCIAL media network Facebook has betrayed its users once again, this time by harvesting 3.5 billion Instagram photos for its research.

More than 3.5 billion photographs were harvested from the photo-sharing platform without users’ knowledge, chief technology officer Mike Schroepfer told the audience at the company's annual developers' conference F8, revealing they had been used to enhance the company’s artificial intelligence technology.


Mr Schroepfer said Facebook had become overwhelmed with so much dangerous material “like offensive content, spam, hate speech, fake accounts, fake news, clickbait and more”, it had become too much for human moderators to regulate.

Instead, the company was creating an artificially intelligent moderation system, he said, to detect inappropriate images on its website.

To speed up its development — by “100 times”, he said — Facebook harvested any images shared on Instagram with hashtags, and fed the photographs into its own system over 22 days.

Date numerology: 5/3/2018 = 5+3+20+18 = 46
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