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.
It’s funny to go on Facebook and see 20 year old accounts that haven’t updated their profile pic since 2009. Facebook is the corpse of a social media platform used to trade yardsale trash and post christmas cards. Your facebook AI is going to excel at posting right-wing memes and helping people find their lost pets.
As for instragram. Now introducing InfluencerGPT.
The AI is going to be racist and anti-ev as fuck
Oh good. So it will learn to be very reactionary and insulting.
I wonder if my account and data were actually ever deleted when I quit FB like 7 years ago.
It didn’t. FB still recognize my face when familly members post a pic with me My profile still exist, and so is the social graph.
I tried to log in after years of no use , to find a Delete all data" button - Can’t log in anymore (no password resets, no recovery process).
" You stopped using us, it doesn’t mean we will stop using you"
I deleted all of my pictures and posts before I deleted my account. They probably still have all the data, but no one can see it.
I’ve just started deleting my stuff. Their mass delete doesn’t seem to work and it looks like i need to do it one at a time manually. Argh.
At the time I did it there was a browser extension that mass deleted everything. But again, that was like 7 years or so ago.
I’m the weirdo who always reads the privacy policy at the bare minimum. I’ve opted out of a lot of services/apps/games/sites because of their privacy policy over the years.
Look it is bullshit they can get away with this crap but right now we only have the existing outdated legislation to work with. The absolute explosion of how technology and social media impacts the world has changed RAPIDLY in the last 15 years. It was once quaint that Obama did reddit AMA or posted a tweet.
So my point is yes be mad but ultimately it is out responsibility to be proactive with the tools that we have, and that’s privacy policies and ToS. Like you’re skipping through the villain’s monologe laying out every step of their evil plan then shocked at the consequences.
I can’t wait for AI to master the psychological manupulation scumbag liar e-beggers use to create it’s own gofundmes and cashapp drives, then maybe it can become finally profitable
What is the context of that photo?
looks like someone farted
Someone ate Taco Bell before the court hearing
If you are not paying for some service, you and your data are almost certainly the product. It was true then, it’s still true today.
Except open source software, like Lemmy, a free service?
What do the terms of use and privacy policies say? Who’s paying for the servers and what are they getting out of it? Also, since your data is federated, what happens when it hits a server with any different policies (or who may be in violation of the license of the software itself, but is getting no enforcement)?
The servers are esupporyed by donations, mostly, but I am aware that everything I post here is very public
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Mark Zuckerberg bragged about his vast library of content, which includes all your posts, reels, and comments, during Meta’s earnings call Thursday.
“We estimate [this] is greater than the Common Crawl dataset, and people share large numbers of public text posts in comments across our services as well.”
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.
Without any grand announcement or notice to users, Meta has essentially claimed ownership of your public social media profile and will use it to generate billions of dollars.
Book publishers and news organizations understand how valuable this data is to AI, but social media users, once again, are being thrown to the curb.
The original article contains 570 words, the summary contains 151 words. Saved 74%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!
Anybody here still using facebook or IG?
I still have Instagram, but only because my friends do; and believe me, I’ve tried to get them to move over to Mastodon, to no avail.
How about Pixelfed? That has more affinity with it at least
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…
Yeah, not gonna be easy.
Waiting for Europe to ban ads altogether 🤞
/s …unless?
Thank you ZuccBot for turning my Facebook profile into a corpo friendly AI, I’m sure this will totally not become sentient and kill us all.
Hard for old Zuck to use my data to train his garbage products when I’ve never provided that data to begin with. 1 for me, 0 for the zuck.
Everyone else gives your data away for you. You don’t even need to lift a finger.
Ha, I suppose that’s true. Damn you Zuck and the other data harvesters!
