Subj : Oh great  now Facebook wants your private data to train its lates
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From : TechnologyDaily
Date : Tue Feb 06 2024 12:30:05

Oh great  now Facebook wants your private data to train its latest AI pipe 
dream

Date:
Tue, 06 Feb 2024 12:21:37 +0000

Description:
Facebook and Instagram may soon start grabbing your private data and use it 
to train a new AI tool.

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Facebook owner Meta is not exactly known for keeping its hands off your 
private data , and over the years company chief Mark Zuckerberg has 
repeatedly found himself in hot water for his, shall we say, 'light-fingered' 
approach to user privacy. And now it looks like things could get a whole lot 
worse. 

In a recent earnings call ( via Bloomberg ), Zuckerberg announced his 
companys latest bright idea: grab the confidential data of billions of people 
and use it to train a new artificial intelligence (AI) model. Dont expect to 
be able to opt out of this either. 

On the call, Zuckerberg grandly announced that The next key part of our 
playbook is learning from unique data and feedback loops in our products On 
Facebook and Instagram, there are hundreds of billions of publicly shared 
images and tens of billions of public videos, which we estimate is greater 
than the Common Crawl dataset, and people share large numbers of public text 
posts in comments across our services as well. 

Zuckerbergs idea seems to be that if you've posted something to Facebook or 
Instagram, its fair game for his AI to seize and use however it pleases. 
Those adorable baby photos you posted for your friends and family? Sorry, 
theyre Metas now. Im sure this can only end well (Image credit: dole777 / 
Unsplash) 

The stunning brazenness of Zuckerbergs announcement shouldnt really come as a 
surprise, as the Meta CEO has repeatedly demonstrated a worrying disregard 
for privacy concerns over the years. But it aptly demonstrates the 
consequences of a company as massive as Meta taking control of your private 
posts, photos and videos. Nobody posted these things ever intending them to 
be swept up and used in this way. 

The creator of rival artificial intelligence tool Stability AI has faced 
legal action after Getty Images claimed it had grabbed a veritable treasure 
trove of online content and used it to train its AI model, and thats far from 
the only case of its kind. In each instance, the training was done without 
permission from the original posters of the material, and Meta could face 
similar headaches if it goes ahead with its AI plan. 

Theres also the concern of bias and discrimination that inevitably rears its 
ugly head whenever large amounts of data are used to train AI models. All 
major efforts so far have faced this problem, and with Meta gobbling up far 
more training data than was used on ChatGPT , the problem could be 
compounded. 

No doubt lawmakers are taking notice of Metas intentions, and with bodies 
like the European Union taking the privacy fight to big tech firms in recent 
years, Zuckerbergs plan is likely to land squarely within its crosshairs. 
Whether thats enough to keep your private data out of Facebook's and 
Instagrams clutches remains to be seen. You might also like Facebook sued for 
allegedly spying on users via in-app web browser Thousands of businesses 
found handing tons of user data to Facebook Facebook and Instagram are banned 
from using targeted ads in Europe



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Link to news story:
https://www.techradar.com/computing/oh-great-now-facebook-wants-your-private-d
ata-to-train-its-latest-ai-pipe-dream


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