Facebook Is Working on an App to Keep You from Ruining Your Life Jordan Valinsky - News.Mic
go to original December 12, 2014

Facebook is developing a tool to stamp out one of the worst faux pas of the social media era: drunken posting.

Although it won't strip your News Feed of engagement and baby pictures, the social network is developing the next best thing — a "digital assistant" that scans users' faces and judges if they're drunk so they won't upload potentially embarrassing photos or messages, thus salvaging whatever dignity that's left after a night of debauchery.

So if you have a friend — or a "friend" — who can't seem to stop posting on his ex's wall or writing gibberish after one too many bourbons, or maybe you're just worried about your weekend antics getting back to your boss, Facebook's got you covered.

How it works: The technology for this tool, a form of artificial intelligence called "deep learning," is already in place. It's the same system Facebook uses to constantly track your behavior so it can serve ads and stories related to your interest and identifies faces in photos.

The artificial intelligence is being used to understand people's Facebook data in more comprehensive ways, perhaps to "guide you in directions you may not go on your own," writes Wired. Yann LeCun, the man in charge of Facebook's Artificial Intelligence Research lab, told Wired he envisions the assistant will see the photo and caution that it's probably best kept private.

"In a virtual way ... his assistant would tap you on the shoulder and say: 'Uh, this is being posted publicly. Are you sure you want your boss and your mother to see this?'" Wired wrote.

Unfortunately, there's no timeframe of when, or even if, the tool will appear on Facebook.

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