Public posts on Facebook and Instagram as AI training material

Meta has been using the public posts and photos of adult Facebook and Instagram users to train its AI models – going back in their archives all the way to 2007. This was confirmed by Melinda Claybaugh, Meta’s global privacy director, during a government hearing in Australia, according to ABC News. The data collection includes all public posts that were not intentionally set to private. Claybaugh explained that data would not be collected from users under the age of 18, but could not clarify how accounts created as minors would be handled. European users will be able to opt out due to local privacy regulations, but that option is not available for other regions. Source: The Verge