Meta admits that it trains its AI on your Instagram and Facebook posts

Technology@lemmy.world – 166 points – 9 months ago

Meta admits that it trains its AI on your Instagram and Facebook posts::undefined

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Every time I read a new story about another example of this, I struggle to understand why people are getting outraged. Did you have some expectation of privacy when you published your thing to the world-connected network run by profit-seeking corporations?

People have been using Facebook for about 15 years now. Of course nobody imagined their posts would be used to train AI at that point. The general population had no idea that was possible until ChatGPT was released last year, if even.

It's not about AI specifically. It's about the awareness that, as soon as you post it to social media, your personal information is not under your control anymore. There was and is still a good reason why you should not post personal info on the internet, even on seemingly "safe" spaces like social media pages.

But people in general don't care anyway and they won't care about this headline too.

I think it’s less that most people don’t care, or wouldn’t if you explained it, and more that nobody has the power to really do anything about it. Even if you can cut Meta out of your life they still track you and make ghost profiles of you in their data. I’ve never input any identifying information into meta, and my name is so generic it’s practically adjacent to “John smith”, but it still knows who my family and former coworkers are.

It doesn't matter what it's being used for, you post publicly it can be used publicly whether that's for a news article or to train the next ChatGPT.

Its media creating a new boogie man. LLM and AI gives regular people a lot of crazy power and creative ability that can challenge current power dynamics. So media is making sure regular folk fear the shit out of it.

We've reached AI is coming for the children articles. AI is stealing your jobs. AI is going to murder your favorite comedians. AI will turn you into a battery. Everyday its some fucking new fear mongering headline

LLM and AI gives regular people a lot of crazy power and creative ability that can challenge current power dynamics.

My view is opposite in that LLM and AI will further entrench the skewed power dynamics, as only really the big companies like Microsoft, Amazon and Google can fully exploit it, drive and and afford it. Sure I can run some LLMs on my computers at home, but you really need access to a lot of data and computing power to create the models in the first place.

I don't understand why anyone cares, nothing I posted on Facebook has any value to me at all so if someone can use it to train an AI then good on them.