Instagram: It will detect offensive captions and warn

Changes to avoid… misunderstandings and quarrels seems to be preparing it Instagram.

ΣIn particular, as it became known, the social media will start warning users that their captions on a photo or video may be considered offensive to others, so they may need to change them.

The company, which is owned by Facebook, has already trained an artificial intelligence system, which will undertake to detect potentially offensive captions.

The real goal of Instagram energy

The new tool will be launched immediately in some countries and in others in the coming months. Among other things, it aims to combat cyberbullying, which has become a serious problem on social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram and YouTube. In fact, Instagram was named the worst platform in the world in a 2017 survey on cyberbullying.

Thus, when a user now types an offensive or aggressive caption on Instagram, they will immediately receive a message that their text looks like others that have already been deemed offensive by third parties. Users will have the option to modify their caption before publishing it, but this is not mandatory.

«In addition to limiting the spread of bullying, the warning will help educate people on what we do not allow on Instagram and when a user's account is at risk of violating our rules.Said the platform on its blog, according to the BBC.

Earlier this July, Instagram launched a similar artificial intelligence tool to alert users when comments on other people's posts could be considered offensive. «The results so far have been encouraging and we have found that these types of prompts can push people to rethink their words if given the opportunity", According to Instagram.

But whether such "smart" tools will really work, remains a question, since their character remains optional for users.

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