Popular social media apps TikTok and Instagram use AI to analyze photos on your phone, introducing both bias and errors
Popular social media apps TikTok and Instagram use AI to analyze photos on your phone, introducing both bias and errors
An analysis of Instagram found that its vision model categorized more than 500 different 'concepts,' including age and gender, time of day, background images and even what foods people were eating in the photographs.
Cross posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/13430612
Digital privacy and security engineers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison have found that the artificial intelligence-based systems that TikTok and Instagram use to extract personal and demographic data from user images can misclassify aspects of the images. This could lead to mistakes in age verification systems or introduce other errors and biases into platforms that use these types of systems for digital services.
Led by Kassem Fawaz, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at UW–Madison, the researchers studied the two platforms’ mobile apps to understand what types of information their machine learning vision models collect about users from their photographs — and importantly, whether the models accurately recognize demographic differences and age.
And people look at me weird when I say I don't like using Instagram much. It's funny how a lot of my friends don't like facebook, generally anti-corp, pro-privacy but have no problem being on Instagram all the time.
a friend of mine once told me that it's hard for her to keep in touch with me because i don't use instagram. i told her i do use whatsapp and i know she uses whatsapp. she then explains how it's easy to tell everyone what's going on in your life by just posting it on instagram for everyone to see. there i realized we weren't really friends, but merely just drinking buddies. made me hate ig even more than i already did.
It makes sense if that's the level of contact ypu want, but yeah I would rather talk to someone one on one, or like my family has a group chat through text, I'd rather communicate like that than post my life on IG. The things I want to tell my friends about my life I don't usually want to post publicly.