Instagram Introduces Artificial Intelligence To Filter Spammy Comments

On Thursday, 29th June, 2017, Instagram said it will now use artificial intelligence to filter off nasty and unrelated comments and spam at popular Facebook-owned photo sharing service.

This is indeed a good news as many users find it really annoying with unrelated comments on their updates.

This move comes to be very imperative as Facebook, the world leading Social Media Network, and other companies work to curb trolls, hate speeches and the spread of violent ideology on their platforms.

“Many of you have told us that toxic comments discourage you from enjoying Instagram and expressing yourself freely,” co-founder and chief executive Kevin Systrom said in a blog post.

“To help, we’ve developed a filter that will block certain offensive comments on posts and in live video.”

Written remarks will otherwise appear as usual at Instagram, and users can opt to turn off the new filters.

The offensive comment filter will launch first in English, with other languages eventually added, according to Systrom.

Instagram said that the filter scanning for spam is designed to work in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.

“Our team has been training our systems for some time to recognise certain types of offensive and spammy comments so you never have to see them,” Systrom said.

“The tools will improve over time.”

Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter and YouTube this week announced the launch of an anti-terror partnership aimed at thwarting the spread of extremist content online.

The Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism intends to share engineering, research, and knowledge to help “continue to make our hosted consumer services hostile to terrorists and violent extremists,” the companies said.

Facebook and each of the other successful Platforms have been working individually to prevent its platforms or services from being spammed or promote rumors and violent ideologies.