Instagram Uses AI to Warn Users Who Are About to Post Potentially Offensive Captions

The feature debuted in July for comments

Instagram rolled out a feature in July in which it used artificial intelligence to detect comments that might be considered offensive, warning the people who are posting those comments and giving them a chance to reconsider. That feature was extended to captions Monday.

The Facebook-owned photo- and video-sharing network said in a blog post that when its AI detects a caption on a feed post to be potentially offensive, the user about to post that caption will see a prompt warning them that it is similar to others that were reported for bullying.

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