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Facebook listened to certain user conversations

14 August 2019 14:44 (UTC +04:00)

The first social network in the world claims to have used only the sound conversations of users who had given permission, APA reports citing Tellerreport.

Facebook has paid hundreds of subcontractors to transcribe snippets of conversations of some users, reveals Tuesday the agency Bloomberg, although the first social network in the world has long denied to act in this way to better calibrate its ads or pages of 'information.

In a statement sent to the financial agency, Facebook acknowledges having transcribed sound recordings of conversations - with the authorization of users - but claims to have ended the practice."Just like Apple or Google, we have frozen the practice of listening to sound recordings by humans last week," says the social network. Facebook explains that it was authorized to transcribe their conversation by users of its Messenger application.

Subcontractors checked whether the artificial intelligence of the network was correctly interpreting messages that had been made anonymous. According to Bloomberg, employees who are in charge of transcription worry about the ethical implications of their work, being unaware of the origin of the recordings of the conversations, or the use made by the company founded by Mark. Zuckerberg.Amazon, Apple and Google, all selling voice assistants, had already acknowledged doing the same to improve the answers of their applications. Apple and Google have said they have dropped the practice in recent weeks.