Facebook’s contract workers are looking at your private posts to train AI

A new report from Reuters reveals that contract workers are looking at private posts on Facebook and Instagram in order to label them for AI systems.Like many tech companies, Facebook uses machine learning and AI to sort content on its platforms. But in order to do this, the software needs to be trained to identify different types of content. To train these algorithms they have to analyze sample data, all of which needs to be categorized and labeled by humans — a process known as “d