Facebook launches AI to find and remove 'revenge porn'

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Currently, Facebook users or victims of revenge porn have to report the inappropriate pictures before content moderators will review them. The company has also suggested that users send their own intimate images to Facebook so that the service can identify any unauthorized uploads. Many users, however, balked at the notion of sharing revealing photos or videos with the social-media giant, particularly given its history of privacy failures. Facebook is going after revenge porn......launching new artificial intelligence technology to identify intimate pictures posted without consent of the subject.Those picture identified by the A-I...will be sent for review.Currently Facebook users have to report such photos before the company's moderators will review them.At least 42 states have passed laws criminalizing revenge porn, many in the past five years.Facebook and other social-media companies have struggled to moderate all the material users upload to their sites....and have faced criticism for acting too slowly or allowing offensive posts to stay up too long.