My oh my. From ABC News Australia: “Facebook admits to scraping every Australian adult user’s public photos and posts to train AI, with no opt-out option.”
A summary:
“The company does not offer Australians an opt out option like it does in the EU, because it has not been required to do so under privacy law.”
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-09-11/facebook-scraping-photos-data-no-opt-out/104336170
BTW the ABC News website has links to Facebook, Instagram and X but no Fediverse profiles. So their posts are used to train #Llama
#BigTech #AI #privacy #Meta
@[email protected] yup. Data Feudalism is real. #MLsec https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/why-the-data-ocean-is-being-sectioned-off
@[email protected] I haven’t had a facebook account for ten years but I’m about to create one to acquire IT work (hopefully) on a freelance basis
I’ll be making sure its not on my phone. Thanks@[email protected] yeah I keep Threads and Instagram on a separate phone (an old iPhone SE) that has a different Apple ID, washi tape over the cameras, a dongle to physically block microphone access, an empty address book and empty camera roll. I don’t trust them one bit!
And I rarely post on those apps anyways… just to Threads to tell people to migrate to the (real) Fediverse 🤗
@[email protected] ja, too many (media) outlets, platforms and public institutions are not yet on Mastodon and/or in the Fediverse. I don’t understand, it’s easier than anything and you get an educated audience 🤷🏻…
Forces of inertia 😔…@[email protected] yes and it makes ZERO sense to me. They would own all their content and followers and wouldn’t have to wrestle with opaque algorithms to get their content seen
