3 ms·
> To speed up its development — by “100 times”, he said — Facebook harvested any images shared on Instagram with hashtags, and fed the photographs into its own
by danso 9y ago
> To speed up its development — by “100 times”, he said — Facebook harvested any images shared on Instagram with hashtags, and fed the photographs into its own system over 22 days.
"Its own system"? As in, Facebook/Instagram's own system? When users upload their photos, in what system do they expect the photos to reside?
- tqkxzugoaupvwqr 9y agoThe article doesn’t say when Facebook used Instagram’s photos. There was a time when Instagram was not integrated into Facebook’s infrastructure. I don’t know how deeply Instagram is integrated today but they appear to at least use Facebook’s storage and CDN. So if this research(?) was done lately, “fed […] into its own system” could refer to Facebook’s spam detection system as opposed to Instagram’s spam detection system.