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.

  • peopleproblemsEnglish
    21•5 months ago

    To do what?

    I mean I don’t know if y’all been on Facebook since 200X but it’s not exactly a place of intelligence

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

      Instagram would likely be dramatically more useful to mine for an image generator than Facebook for a textbot

    • @Chakravanti@sh.itjust.works
      English
      2•5 months ago

      Apparently Ai eats stupId and it makes it smart because it doesn’t caRe about the DIfferenCe and doesn’t need to Know either.

      • @UNWILLING_PARTICIPANT@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2•5 months ago

        I think one idea is they know how people interact, so theoretically could ensnare 1 user in a web of interactions between multiple other fake interactions, or interactions which are tweaked to increase conversion (even something as simple as playing with the timing of a real notification). You can start to how user behavior could be orchestrated to produce (even more) desired outcomes.