Facebook's 'alternate reality' platform to test illegal social media activity via bots

In an attempt to counter harassment, bullying, scamming and or illegal activities on its platform, Facebook has come up with a unique way of using artificial intelligence to mirror app and create an alternate reality to test and study unhealthy social media behaviour. 

Researchers of social networking giant have developed Web-Enabled Simulation (WES), a large-scale replica of Facebook which would imitate features of app in real-time. On this platform, researchers plan to let loose 'incent' and 'b' bots mirroring ordinary profiles and predators online.

 " WES approach can automatically explore complicated scenarios in a simulated environment. While project is in a research-only st at moment, hope is that one day it will help us improve our services and spot potential reliability or integrity issues before y affect real people using platform," said Mark Harman, le Facebook research scientist in his blog. 

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According to Facebook, WES would help m study and track illegal behaviour on ir platform without actually targeting incent people or causing any harm in real world. Through this parallel world, Facebook would be able to use AI to sharpen ir intelligence to track and tackle problematic accounts in real world.

"We apply 'speed bumps' to actions and observations our bots can perform and so quickly explore possible changes that we could make to products to inhibit harmful behaviour without hurting rmal behaviour," said Mark Harman. 

According to researchers, AI would be roped in to track 'b' bots based on a number of factors such as number of private messs y send, visits on-p, searchers etc. y will n assess various counter-measures to test those that can most effectively stop or even prevent undesirable behaviours.

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