US researchers have developed artificial intelligence ( AI ) technology which can help detect illegal drug sales on social media . The scientists from the University of California in San Diego geared the system towards looking for signs of people selling prescription drugs on Twitter . In trials , it analysed 600,000 tweets and found 1,778 cases of drugs being sold , even collecting information about the locations in which the sales were taking place . Information pulled is not of direct use to law enforcement , but could provide researchers with data on the extent of the problem .
US researchers have developed artificial intelligence (AI) technology which can help detect illegal drug sales on social media. The scientists from the University of California in San Diego geared the system towards looking for signs of people selling prescription drugs on Twitter. In trials, it analysed 600,000 tweets and found 1,778 cases of drugs being sold, even providing information about the locations in which the transactions were taking place. Information pulled is not of direct use to law enforcement, but could provide researchers with data on the extent of the problem.