Meta trains AI to your knowledge. Customers say it doesn't work.

Table of contents table What happens? Let them opt if you can

Imagine a tech giant tells you that your Instagram and Facebook posts should train its AI models. And even without incentive. However, they could choose according to the company. However, if you continue with the official tools to prevent the AI ​​from devouring your social content, you just don't work.

Reporting Facebook and Instagram users now. Nate Hake, editor and founding director of Travel Lemming, said that he received an e -mail from Meta about the use of his social media content for AI training. However, the link to the opt-out form provided by META does not work.

But that's not the worst part. Meta recently assured that it will adhere to the choice of users who do not want their data to be used for AI training. Hake claims that Meta is not taken on his request. Instead, he received an answer in which the company “cannot take any further measures” at his request.

What happens?

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In 2018, when Meta kept the name Facebook, the company announced that AI algorithms trained with the millions of pictures that were shared on Instagram. The Meta Ai of the same name and the LAMA -Ai -Ai -Ai -Ai models did not exist at this time. But it was a bad omen for things.

Fast lead by 2025, and we have a social media giant that relies on AI that is notoriously hungry for power and more training data. Users of meta-platforms such as Instagram and Facebook now find out that their data is being added to a AI, and the opt-out tool blocked by the region simply does not work.

Meta Schulte has been in content for years that are shared by users. In view of the slippery slope of copyright laws and the privacy of the users, the company confronts strong supervisory pressure. Finally, in June last year, the company said that plans would pause to train its AI system for the social data of the user living in the EU region.

Users complain via Meta AI to X.

@natejhake / x

Less than a year later, however, the company revealed that collecting users who live in the EU and in Great Britain with Meta -Ki, which will live in the EU and in Great Britain. Meta argued that this is a standard mode operandi that it has been pursuing worldwide for years.

“We are following the example that was determined by others such as Google and Openaai. Both have already used data from European users to train their AI models,” said the company in an official blog post.

Let them opt if you can

In mid -April of this year, Meta said that users in the EU block and Great Britain are told about the change in the AI ​​training guidelines. The company found that it would inform users about an in-app notification and nudge it by official email.

“These notifications will also contain a link to a form in which humans are used at any time,” said the company. Meta assured that the object form for Instagram and Facebook users is easy to find and that all the necessary information would provide in a simple language.

Meta's declaration of consent for AI training.

@Ishebison / x

According to Hake, the opt-out link provided by Meta does not work. Several users who reacted to his contribution also mentioned a similar situation that Meta lambusted for his shady behavior. It is not clear whether the not reacting opt-out form is a mistake or in any other way.

However, Hake indicates mere disregard for the user selection and the apparent U -turn of the company. Meta promised a little more than a week ago that “all the forms of opposition that we have already received would” honor “newly submitted.

According to Hake, he applied with the request and the opt-out problem with the META, the company manager replied that they would not take any further measures with regard to his request. Meta claims that it is proud of its transparent approach to the use of social content for AI training, but it seems that the company does not keep an eye on whether it does these obligations fairly.



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