Re:WhatsApp moderators can read your messages if someone you...
by KaiserPro on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @08:06AM
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it is not confirmed.
The wired/gizmodo article tries its best to imply that it does.
the main claim comes from one of the moderators saying that: "the ai keeps sending us mundane pictures, like kids in bathtubs". This has allowed people to claim that facebook are scanning every image/message. Where as, obviously given the paltry number of moderators, your going to us AI to triage messages. Otherwise you'd have to spend more cash on staff
I think there is another bit where someone says they can trace the journey of the image. Its pretty trivial to do this with metadata, given that whatsapp leaks a fair bit of metadata its not suprising.
The wired/gizmodo article tries its best to imply that it does.
the main claim comes from one of the moderators saying that: "the ai keeps sending us mundane pictures, like kids in bathtubs". This has allowed people to claim that facebook are scanning every image/message. Where as, obviously given the paltry number of moderators, your going to us AI to triage messages. Otherwise you'd have to spend more cash on staff
I think there is another bit where someone says they can trace the journey of the image. Its pretty trivial to do this with metadata, given that whatsapp leaks a fair bit of metadata its not suprising.