Post actively on Facebook? Meta has fed its AI with all your posts since 2007
Meta has admitted that its artificial intelligence models have been fed with all of the text and images that adult Facebook and Instagram users have shared publicly since 2007. According to Australia's ABC News, Melinda Claybaugh, global privacy director at Meta, first denied allegations made during a local government investigation regarding the adoption of AI that user data from 2007 was being used for AI training. However, she eventually gave in to further interrogation.
Senator David Shoebridge of the Green Party pressed for an investigation and said that the truth is that Meta has simply decided that you will scrape all of the photos and all of the texts from every public post on Instagram or Facebook since 2007 unless there was a conscious decision to set them on private.
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According to Meta's privacy center and blog posts, they gather public posts and comments from Facebook and Instagram in order to train generative AI. They use publicly accessible posts and comments on Facebook and Instagram to train generative AI models for these features and for the benefit of the open-source community. We don't use publicly accessible posts and comments for these kinds of things.
However, the business has not made clear how or when it began scraping or how long ago it began collecting data. Meta only confirmed that setting posts to anything other than public will stop scraping in the
