executives cautioned that day may be distant especially outside the englishspeaking world where it has fewer moderators and less locallanguage data available to train algorithmsour algorithms arent yet as good as people when it comes to understanding context ms fairman saidinstagrams critics probably wont be satisfied that after making billions of dollars in profits and contributing to what researchers say is an epidemic of teenage depression and anxiety the company is now trying to dismantle the culture of social media bullying it helped to createwhere were they five years ago its about time honestly said jim steyer the chief executive of common sense media a nonprofit watchdog group that advocates better protections on childrens technology this has been a huge issue for years and most of these companies buried their heads in the sand until they were under pressure to do something about itits true that instagrams antibullying effort may be useful for generating good public relations and that the company seems to be making up some of the details as it goes along its also true that instagram has a multitude of serious problems on its hands including antivaccine misinformation and rampant hate speech and extremism and that building ai to detect bullying is probably a more convenient challenge than rethinking the addriven business model and platform design issues that encourage antisocial behavior in the first placebut better too little too late than nothing ever instagrams bullydetecting ai is a good idea and a step toward giving young people an easier time navigating the vicissitudes of 21stcentury adolescence for their sake lets hope it works