Facebook is using AI-powered 'proactive detection' to identify drug-related images before they're seen or reported by users. It hopes that this will make the site less useful to dealers.
"Our technology is able to detect content that includes images of drugs and depicts the intent to sell with information such as price, phone numbers or usernames for other social media accounts," explained Kevin Martin, head of US public policy at Facebook.
Martin says that using AI to find these images means human moderators have more time for trickier tasks like identifying trends in drug sales, and finding pages, groups and hashtags related to drug use.
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