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    Facebook contractors categorize your private posts to train AI

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    Christine Fisher
    Christine Fisher
    05.06.2019

    At any given time, Facebook has thousands of third-party staffers around the world looking at and labeling Facebook and Instagram posts. The work is meant to help train AI and to inform new products. But because the contractors see users' public and private posts, some view it as a violation of privacy.