Every day, around two billion photos are uploaded to Facebook by people all across the world, and if your profile is set to public anyone can see them.
However, the social media site is now introducing a new warning system so that parents will be alerted before they publicly share photos of their children.
According Jay Parikh, Facebook’s vice president of engineering, artificial intelligence will allow the system to analyse the images and send a warning if family photos are to be made public.
Explaining how it works at a media event this week, Mr Parikh told the Evening Standard: “If I were to upload a photo of my kids playing at the park and I accidentally had it shared with the public, this system could say: ‘Hey wait a minute, this is a photo of your kids, normally you post this to just your family members, are you sure you want to do this?”
“There’s ways to keep Facebook safe so if there’s objectionable content we can find that stuff using these very intelligent systems so that we can weed out this objectionable content faster,” he added.
The plan is part of a ten year arc of innovation which also included the possibility of patients virtually visiting their GP using a 3D digital headset. It also aims to give blind and visually impaired people a better experience with a Q&A system which will tell the user who is in the photo and what they are doing.
