Zuck Brags About How Much of Your Facebook, Instagram Posts Will Power His AI
gizmodo.com
Social media companies claim to own your online profiles, and now they're generating billions by using them to train AI.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/11642180

Instagram and Facebook have addicted users for the last 20 years, making sure to monetize us through advertisers every step of the way. Now, they’re revisiting your old posts, your special moments, and your big life updates, and using it to create billion-dollar AI tools. Zuckerberg’s braggadocious claim about Meta’s very large dataset comes shortly after The New York Times sued OpenAI over intellectual property. But Meta is pulling an old trick out of its playbook: extracting as much value out of Instagram and Facebook users as humanly possible, and totally owning your online self.

  • @Sanctus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8•5 months ago

    I still use messenger cause all my friends are there. I have it on its own device because yuck. It might be time to abandon them and say if they want DnD updates they need to come to Matrix.

    • Aniki 🌱🌿English
      1•5 months ago

      you can always use mbasic on mobile without having to install an app. That’s how i do it with firefox and the facebook container extension with the facebook feed blocker extension that still works on mbasic.

      • @Sanctus@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1•5 months ago

        I’ll look into that. My work gifted me a fold 5 after I only had the 3 for 2 years. Grateful but didnt really need it. So I ripped everything I could of google and samsung out of the 3 but left messenger on there. I’ll mess around with mbasic because you can’t really remove any facebook packages with adb without the apps also dying.