If you’re one of the millions of Australians using Facebook or Instagram, Meta is using your data to train its AI – and unlike people in the European Union, you can’t stop them.
If you’re one of the millions of Australians using Facebook or Instagram, tech giant Meta is using your data to train its artificial intelligence models, and you don’t have the ability to opt out.
“If you’re an artist, your photos posted to Instagram will be training Meta’s image generator model,” author and futurist Mark Pesce says. Adobe “may access, view, or listen to your content through both automated and manual methods, but only in limited ways, and only as permitted by law”, its terms of service read. The company “clarified that we may access your content through both automated and manual methods, such as for content review”.
The tech giants initially used data scraped from all corners of the internet for their AI models. They’re now beginning to pay the likes of News Corp, Associated Press and Reddit for their data, as well as turning to their own users, who they can effectively mine for free. “Australians shouldn’t be subjected to inferior protections of their privacy as compared with places like the European Union.”
“I would be fairly confident in saying that the vast majority of Facebook and Instagram users wouldn’t have anticipated that their posts would be used for that purpose.” “Users should decide how much they get out of these technologies in trading their privacy and security.”Some companies are taking the opposite stance to Meta and are declaring they won’t touch user data to train their AI models.
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