When I was reading my second Guardian article, I followed a hyperlink to more articles about Instagram. There was an article titled "Instagram's anti-bully AI asks users: 'Are you sure you want to post this?'" This headline caught my eye so I browsed the text at my leisure. What it means is that if Instagram deems your comment or post hurtful, a reminder pops up prompting, 'Are you sure you want to post that?'.This causes people to reflect about what they are about to post and some actually change their post.
This sounded very hopeful to me. It made me think that AI isn't necessarily evil robots trying to steal your information. The AI is out doing something to benefit our society. With the surge the internet and concealed identity, cyber bullying became too easy. I'm happy that social media is out making moves towards encouraging positivity.
Although it won't stop the issue entirely, we are making advances in the right direction. These little steps can lead us to a world where the 'internet' and 'positivity' can become synonymous.
- Alfonso Gastelum
I love your paragraph about the internet changing so it can be viewed as a positive place. When reading everything on AI technology, I have not thought about it being used in this way. With other posts about the internet being a dangerous place and AI being evil, you are the first person I have seen that shows how uplifting AI can actually be and that it can be used to prevent cyberbullying.
ReplyDeleteThis can be a very effective measure to eliminate bullying if every social media company adds this to their apps. Another way this can improve apps like Instagram is by programming them so AI can instantly remove offensive or inappropriate content. There is the reporting posts or people feature, but it must go through a process to remove it. If an AI can delete it when it is first posted or persuade the user to not post it in the first place, it is much more effective.
I feel like small steps like are starting to hopefully lead to a positive outcome. Us, as humans, are finally starting to use AI for a better purpose like this. We can only hope that this will actually be effective or not. It really is a change, reading this blog about AI positivity and not "technology and AI will kill us all" type of deal. Hopefully this is only the beginning for using AI and algorithms for positive measures. Not only can they influence cyberbullying, but also maybe help people not accidentally access a malicious website/link. Only time will tell.
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