Facebook used 3.5 billion Instagram photos to train its AI
Facebook used over 3.5 billion public Instagram photos spanning 17,000 hashtags to train its artificial intelligence algorithms, Facebook's CTO Mike Schroepfer revealed. The AI is helping the company screen its platform of terrorist propaganda, nudity and hate speech, earlier dependent on user reports, added Schroepfer. This comes after Facebook users' data was exploited to influence US elections.