Zuck Brags About How Much of Your Facebook, Instagram Posts Will Power His AI
gizmodo.com
Social media companies claim to own your online profiles, and now they're generating billions by using them to train AI.

Instagram and Facebook have addicted users for the last 20 years, making sure to monetize us through advertisers every step of the way. Now, they’re revisiting your old posts, your special moments, and your big life updates, and using it to create billion-dollar AI tools. Zuckerberg’s braggadocious claim about Meta’s very large dataset comes shortly after The New York Times sued OpenAI over intellectual property. But Meta is pulling an old trick out of its playbook: extracting as much value out of Instagram and Facebook users as humanly possible, and totally owning your online self.

    • Hellfire103@lemmy.caEnglish
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      9 months ago

      They’re still not interested. It’ll take a paywall or something to get them to move on, although they’re not exactly fans of AI…

      • LWD@lemm.ee
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        9 months ago

        The hardest selling point of the Fediverse regarding AI is that it is the most scrapable form of social media. To companies like Facebook and Twitter, it offers up its data on a silver platter with well documented and limitless APIs.