Facebook, Instagram users outraged over AI training with user posts: ‘F–k right off’
It’s causing users to short-circuit.
Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, rolled artificial intelligence that is training on people’s posts, causing backlash toward the social media sites.
While the announcement that Meta would be utilizing public posts to train its AI model, a ChatGPT-like program called Llama 2 — there has since been an updated version — was made a year ago, a recent plan for collecting data on United Kingdom users in coming months is bringing worry and fury from many across the pond.
The Sept. 13 announcement presented the goal of having generative AI that “will reflect British culture, history and idiom.”
In June, Meta had paused its more personal AI development in the UK because it conflicted with European Union privacy laws, according to the Guardian. Last month, governing bodies there agreed to allow an experimental attempt at the AI under tight watch, the outlet reported.
Fumed users said Meta can “f–k right off,” according to the Daily Mail.
“Meta wants you to beg them not to train their AI on your stuff — at their discretion,” another added.
The Post reached out to Meta for comment.
The company said that “people’s private messages with friends and family” are off limits, as is content from users under age 18. It also allows an opt-out feature called an “objection form” that is strictly for the United Kingdom.
Since June, the private policy was updated to siphon public post data from American users, according to the MIT Review.
The outlet noted that, due to a lack of privacy laws, not much can be done to opt out stateside.
In spite of this, viral yet meaningless posts are circulating around the social sites with a text message hoax that people think will allow them to back out from the AI model training.
“As Meta is now a public entity all members must post a similar statement. If you do not post at least once it will be assumed you are okay with them using your information and photos,” reads the phony statement, which was shared by the likes of Tom Brady, Julianne Moore and Ashley Tisdale, among 600,000 others.
