Facebook will use your uploaded videos to improve its AI algorithms

Social media giant, Facebook, has started training its artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms to understand different aspects of videos. The company announced a new project today, called the Learning from Videos, which is meant to improve the company’s “core systems” and “power new applications”. The company said it would help improve both its moderation efforts and recommendation engines for video.

“By learning from global streams of publicly available videos spanning nearly every country and hundreds of languages, our AI systems will not just improve accuracy but also adapt to our fast-moving world and recognize the nuances and visual cues across different cultures and regions. And by helping AI researchers break away from the reliance on labeled data, we can improve AI-powered products and create entirely new experiences,” the company said in a blog post.

The timing for the project is curious and seems to be an effort at keeping Facebook’s AI systems up to date. Many experts have said that interest-based algorithms developed by platforms like TikTok are a threat to how Facebook’s algorithms operate.