Tuesday, September 25, 2018

Derek Spellman - Drugs on Instagram

Instagram has a drug problem. Its algorithms make it worse.

Instagram has trouble regulating it's platform to keep people from selling drugs illegally. It's algorithms work by when is liking/searching/commenting on a certain type of post it gives you more of those posts. So when people start look at drugs on instagram they might start getting ads to buy illegal drugs. Instagram can't deal with this because they can't train their AI to flag illegal drug posts because thats to specific and varies to much. So basically these algorithms that most social media platforms use have effects over people that we did not intend to create are not necessarily aware of and have no real way to eliminate them. Great.

6 comments:

  1. I feel like if you're gonna sell drugs (not that you should) the worst place to do it would be online, especially on social media.

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  2. If people want to publicizing that they are even remotely connected to drugs first they are not thinking because anyone can see that and find out that it was that certain person and also you are telling everyone hey I do drugs and I will not get in trouble but they will so!
    -Isabella Sanders

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  3. Weird how people don’t realize that instagram isn’t the dark web—the police can easily access it so I wonder what they’re thinking. -Emma Hancock

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    1. I agree with you. Instagram would be a poor choice to sell drugs on as it is easily traceable, DMs (direct messages) are stored on a cloud that the police could be given access to, and if your account is public, anyone can see what you post.

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  4. How do you think we could stop something like this before it starts? I mean, we need to come up with a way to keep these people off insta.

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