• themurphy@lemmy.ml
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    2 days ago

    People based in the EU who use our platforms can choose to object to their public data being used for training purposes.

    And last in the article it says it works with EU regulators to ensure its legal, basically.

    Also, they are only allowed to use post, comments etc from adults.

    So yeah, they probably scrape less data in EU. At least what they are telling.

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      1 day ago

      “For training purposes”, do you know how many other purposes they have? For research, for improvement, for genuine interests, for selling, for people who can’t read between the lines.

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        Yeah, but I think they are already allowed to do that, if you dont opt out. This is about AI training with data from their own platforms, Facebook, Instagram and Threads, where they werent allowed before.

        They harvest your data to sell like they did yesterday. Nobody should be fooled by that.

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      Maybe, but I won’t believe anything Meta says about their actions being legal until an EU court comments on it. I just know Meta has been in hot water with EU a few times for collecting data they shouldn’t.

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      #Meta says it will resume AI training with public content from European users!

      Meta said it will start notifying users in the EU about the training, and will include a link to a form where they can object at any time. “We’ll honour all objection forms,” the company said. No need to wait, it is possible to opt out now, but I think you need to do it on each platform.

      How Meta uses information for generative AI models and features

      You can submit an objection request through your Facebook, Instagram or Meta account. Your objection will be applied to the account that you’re logged in to and any accounts that you’ve added to the same Accounts Centre.

      Yet to find a link for threads, and they say they don’t scrape private messages, so no need for messenger?

      Threads maybe be covered by Instagram?

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        Horseshit, They’ve always just spied on us and paid the fine. Fuck Cuckerberg and his malware ridden profiling apps.