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Live video on the sweet spot tour pop eroticismFacebook: It's everywhere. On the News Feed, Facebook's algorithm promotes videos when they're streamed. There's a dedicated tab for live video on their mobile app. And in a massive ad campaign seen everywhere from airport walls to TV screens, Facebook's suggesting to you what to broadcast, and how to watch it.

But not everything you come across is safe viewing—for you, or for others.

Earlier this week, up to 16,000 people viewed the torturing of a man in Chicago, according to The Guardian. The video, which lasted about 30 minutes, depicted several people gagging and beating a man, who was kept restrained with his mouth taped shut.

At one point, one man shouts, "*F*ck Donald Trump! F*ck white people!"

As of Thursday, four people have been arrested for the crime, in what may be a win for citizen reporting. The officers on the case saw the video, but it wasn't immediately clear how they came across it. In the majority of cases involving tips, they usually come from people calling 9-1-1 or notifying their text message system, according to authorities at the Chicago Police Department.

"I can’t stress enough the value of having people actually reacting to 'hear-something-say-something,'" said Jose Estrada, an officer at the CDP.

But if someone had seen the video live, wouldn't they have told Facebook? And thus, have been taken down sooner?

Not everyone of the thousands of viewers may have witnessed the torture. According to reports, the video frequently showed a woman smoking and speaking to a camera.

The timeline of the case isn't clear, but most live videos are watched during the replay, despite the "Live" label, and Facebook, despite being one of the wealthiest companies in the world, isn't staffed up enough to handle each report with urgency.

Outside of citizen reporters, the CDP does have a team that will actively monitor social networking sites—not necessarily seeking illicit activity, but while pursuing tips and investigations (such as the case in Chicago).

The video violates Facebook's Community Standards on multiple accounts, which Facebook addressed in a statement. However, a spokesperson for Facebook noted that not all depictions of torture are removed.

"We do not allow people to celebrate or glorify crimes on Facebook and have removed the original video for this reason. In many instances, though, when people share this type of content, they are doing so to condemn violence or raise awareness about it. In that case, the video would be allowed," a Facebook spokesperson wrote in a statement to Mashable.

Even if Facebook wereto remove the video quickly, not everything is in the social network's control. As soon as a video goes live on the social network, someone could record it, and share it to another platform. The Guardianreported that the video of the torture was uploaded to YouTube Wednesday.

There's an opportunity for artificial intelligence to improve not only the response time of taking down videos, but perhaps a process for tipping off the proper authorities, if Facebook choose do so (according to the CPD, the company's legal team and the force have what was characterized as a good working relationship, while maintaining user privacy.)

"Nobody wants individuals to use their products for senseless acts, such as this," noted Chris Michaels, director of communications at Wowza Media Systems, a video and audio streaming company. "Fortunately," he continued "the use of AI can help us begin to filter some of the hideous sides of humanity, and provide a safer solution for free discourse without egregious nanny-state censorship."