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.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/11642180

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.

  • tsonfeir@lemm.eeEnglish
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    9 months ago

    Well, people gave him the data and signed his agreement, so this should be expected. And honestly, this is a far better use of the data than selling it to people, which they are also doing. I have no interest in meta and I won’t ever use what they make, but I’m interested in machine learning getting better. Of course this is Meta so whatever they make is going to eventually be a bad idea. Hopefully it’s not skynet. 🤞