Meta to Use UK Facebook and Instagram Public Posts for AI Training

UK Facebook, Insta public feeds now fair game for Meta AI

Meta is going to resume scraping the personal public feeds of British Facebook and Instagram users for training AI after reaching an agreement with the UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO). This summer, Meta agreed to stop using historical data from British and EU users of its platforms to train machine-learning systems after privacy concerns were raised by activist group noyb. Now the social network has been cleared by regulators to resume harvesting UK adults' comments and posts, after agreeing to make it easier for people to opt out and giving them more time to decide whether their data will be used to train a giant neural network. "In June, Meta paused its plans to use Facebook and Instagram user data to train generative AI in response to a request from the ICO," said Stephen Almond, executive director of regulatory risk at the ICO. "It has since made changes to its approach, including making it simpler for users to object to the processing and providing them with a longer window to do so. Meta has now taken the decision to resume its plans, and we will monitor the situation as Meta moves to inform UK users and commence processing in the coming weeks." The ICO said it will continue to monitor the situation to make sure Brits' rights aren't infringed. Quite how this will affect Google and others in their data scraping efforts we're still looking into, although Meta claims it is "more transparent than our industry counterparts" over grabbing such content. Meta has been taking flak around the world for using its mountains of social media posts to train AI engines. On Wednesday, the Mark Zuckerberg-run mega-corp admitted to the Australian parliament that users in the country were having their posts from 2007 onward added to the pool of training data, including images of minors. As for the UK, Meta promises to only use public material from adults and provide a clear mechanism for people to object to the use of their data for AI training. The first notifications to users explaining how their data will be used should be arriving next week, the social media giant said, and it thanked the ICO for giving the green light to the move and confirming that such data harvesting was legal. "Our generative AI models will reflect British culture, history, and idiom, and that UK companies and institutions will be able to utilize the latest technology," Meta said. "We're building AI at Meta to reflect the diverse communities around the world and we look forward to launching it in more countries and languages later this year." ®

Meta to start using public posts on Facebook, Instagram in UK to train AI

(Reuters) - Meta Platforms will begin training its AI models using public content shared by adults on Facebook and Instagram in the UK over the coming months, the company said, after it had paused the training in the region following a regulatory backlash. The company will use public posts including photos, captions and comments to train its generative artificial intelligence models, it said on Friday, adding that the training content will not include private messages or information from accounts of users under the age of 18. The update follows Meta's decision in mid-June to pause the launch of its AI models in Europe after the Irish privacy regulator told the company to delay its plan to harness data from social media posts. The company had then said the delay would also allow it to address requests from Britain's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO). "Since we paused training our generative AI models in the UK to address regulatory feedback, we've engaged positively with the ICO ... this clarity and certainty will help us bring AI at Meta products to the UK much sooner," Meta said on Friday. Facebook and Instagram users in the UK will start receiving in-app notifications from next week explaining the company's procedure and how users can object to their data being used for the training, Meta added. In June, the company's plans faced backlash from advocacy group NOYB, which urged national privacy watchdogs across Europe to stop such use of social media content, saying the notifications were insufficient to meet EU's stringent EU privacy and transparency rules. (Reporting by Deborah Sophia in Bengaluru; Editing by Shounak Dasgupta)

Meta to resume training AI models on UK users' Facebook and Instagram posts - SiliconANGLE

Meta to resume training AI models on UK users' Facebook and Instagram posts Meta Platforms Inc. plans to resume its use of UK adults' Facebook and Instagram posts in artificial intelligence training projects. The company disclosed the decision today. The move comes about three months after Meta paused the practice over privacy concerns. Meta develops the popular Llama series of open-source large language models. The largest model in the lineup, Llama 3.1 405B, was touted as the most capable open-source LLM on the market at the time of its July launch. It managed to outperform OpenAI's GPT-4o across some tasks during evaluations carried out by Meta. The training data with which the company builds LLMs includes public user posts from Facebook and Instagram. Earlier this year, Meta stopped using such content for AI training in the European Union after regulators asked it to pause the practice. The company also extended the pause to the UK in a bid to "address specific requests" from the Information Commissioner's Office, or ICO, a data protection regulator. Meta said today that it will resume its use of UK adults' social media posts for AI training in the coming months. According to the company, it has modified the way it processes that data based on feedback provided by the ICO. Meta's discussions with the regulator focused on the "legitimate interests" provision of the GDPR privacy law. The provision specifies that a company may process consumer data such as Facebook posts if it has strong reasons for doing so. Those reasons can include commercial interests. To use GDPR's legitimate interests provision as the legal basis of a data collection project, a company must show it "uses people's data in ways they would reasonably expect and which have a minimal privacy impact." A company can use such information in other ways as well, but only if it has a "very good reason" for doing so. The GDPR also establishes other requirements for using the legitimate interests provision. Notably, a company must demonstrate that the data it collects is necessary for the project in which it's used. It's also necessary to establish that there isn't a more privacy-friendly way of going about the task. Before adding UK adults' Facebook and Instagram posts to its AI training dataset, Meta will send affected users a notification about the policy change. The notification is set to include an explanation of the company's data processing practices. Meta also plans to launch a form that will allow users to opt out of AI training. "This means that we can bring AI at Meta products to the UK much sooner, and that our generative AI models will reflect British culture, history and idiom," Meta stated. The company's use of social media posts to train AI models is still facing scrutiny in the EU, the other market where it paused the practice earlier this year. In July, Meta stated that it won't make an upcoming multimodal version of Llama available in the bloc over the "unpredictable nature of the European regulatory environment." Future, more capable versions of that model will likewise be inaccessible.

Meta to start using public posts on Facebook, Instagram in UK to train AI

Sept 13 (Reuters) - Meta Platforms (META.O), opens new tab will begin training its AI models using public content shared by adults on Facebook and Instagram in the UK over the coming months, the company said, after it had paused the training in the region following a regulatory backlash. The company will use public posts, opens new tab including photos, captions and comments to train its generative artificial intelligence models, it said on Friday, adding that the training content will not include private messages or information from accounts of users under the age of 18. Advertisement · Scroll to continue The update follows Meta's decision in mid-June to pause the launch of its AI models in Europe after the Irish privacy regulator told the company to delay its plan to harness data from social media posts. The company had then said the delay would also allow it to address requests from Britain's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO). "Since we paused training our generative AI models in the UK to address regulatory feedback, we've engaged positively with the ICO ... this clarity and certainty will help us bring AI at Meta products to the UK much sooner," Meta said on Friday. Advertisement · Scroll to continue Facebook and Instagram users in the UK will start receiving in-app notifications from next week explaining the company's procedure and how users can object to their data being used for the training, Meta added. In June, the company's plans faced backlash from advocacy group NOYB, which urged national privacy watchdogs across Europe to stop such use of social media content, saying the notifications were insufficient to meet EU's stringent EU privacy and transparency rules. Reporting by Deborah Sophia in Bengaluru; Editing by Shounak Dasgupta Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles., opens new tab

Meta to Start Using Public Posts on Facebook, Instagram in UK to Train AI

(Reuters) - Meta Platforms will begin training its AI models using public content shared by adults on Facebook and Instagram in the UK over the coming months, the company said, after it had paused the training in the region following a regulatory backlash. The company will use public posts including photos, captions and comments to train its generative artificial intelligence models, it said on Friday, adding that the training content will not include private messages or information from accounts of users under the age of 18. The update follows Meta's decision in mid-June to pause the launch of its AI models in Europe after the Irish privacy regulator told the company to delay its plan to harness data from social media posts. The company had then said the delay would also allow it to address requests from Britain's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO). "Since we paused training our generative AI models in the UK to address regulatory feedback, we've engaged positively with the ICO ... this clarity and certainty will help us bring AI at Meta products to the UK much sooner," Meta said on Friday. Facebook and Instagram users in the UK will start receiving in-app notifications from next week explaining the company's procedure and how users can object to their data being used for the training, Meta added. In June, the company's plans faced backlash from advocacy group NOYB, which urged national privacy watchdogs across Europe to stop such use of social media content, saying the notifications were insufficient to meet EU's stringent EU privacy and transparency rules. (Reporting by Deborah Sophia in Bengaluru; Editing by Shounak Dasgupta)

Meta to start using public posts on Facebook, Instagram in UK to train AI

Meta Platforms will begin training its AI models using public content shared by adults on Facebook and Instagram in the UK over the coming months, the company said, after it had paused the training in the region following a regulatory backlash. The company will use public posts including photos, captions and comments to train its generative artificial intelligence models, it said on Friday, adding that the training content will not include private messages or information from accounts of users under the age of 18. The update follows Meta's decision in mid-June to pause the launch of its AI models in Europe after the Irish privacy regulator told the company to delay its plan to harness data from social media posts. The company had then said the delay would also allow it to address requests from Britain's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO). "Since we paused training our generative AI models in the UK to address regulatory feedback, we've engaged positively with the ICO ... this clarity and certainty will help us bring AI at Meta products to the UK much sooner," Meta said on Friday.

Meta reignites plans to train AI using UK users' public Facebook and Instagram posts

Meta has confirmed that it's restarting efforts to train its AI systems using public Facebook and Instagram posts from its U.K. userbase. The announcement comes three months after Facebook's parent company paused its plans due to regulatory pressure in the U.K., with the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) raising concerns over how the company might use U.K. user data to train its generative AI algorithms. The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC), Meta's lead regulator in the European Union (EU), also objected to Meta's plans after receiving feedback from several data protection authorities across the bloc -- there is no word yet on when, or if, Meta will restart its EU AI training efforts. Meta says it has now "incorporated regulatory feedback" to ensure that its approach is "even more transparent," and from next week users will start to see in-app notifications explaining what it's doing. From there, it will start using public content to train its AI in the coming months. "This means that our generative AI models will reflect British culture, history, and idiom, and that U.K. companies and institutions will be able to utilise the latest technology," the company wrote in a blog post. "We're building AI at Meta to reflect the diverse communities around the world and we look forward to launching it in more countries and languages later this year." Objections One of the many bones of contention first time around was how Meta enabled users to opt-out. Rather than giving users a straight 'opt-in / out' check-box, the company made users jump through hoops to find an objection form hidden behind multiple clicks or taps, at which point they were forced to state why they didn't want their data to be processed. It was entirely at Meta's discretion as to whether this request was honored, however the company said publicly that it would honor each request. This time around, Meta is sticking with the objection form approach, meaning users will still have to formally apply to Meta to let them know that they don't want their data used to improve Meta's AI systems. Those who have previously objected won't have to resubmit their objections, however. The company says it has made its objection form simpler this time around, incorporating feedback from the ICO, though it hasn't yet explained how.

Meta to start using public posts on Facebook, Instagram in UK to train AI

(Reuters) - Meta Platforms will begin training its AI models using public content shared by adults on Facebook and Instagram in the UK over the coming months, the company said, after it had paused the training in the region following a regulatory backlash. The company will use public posts including photos, captions and comments to train its generative artificial intelligence models, it said on Friday, adding that the training content will not include private messages or information from accounts of users under the age of 18.

Watch: Meta acknowledges it's training AI on all public posts

If you're wondering if your Facebook and Instagram posts have been used to train AI models at parent company Meta, the answer is almost certainly yes. That's probably not a huge surprise. Meta already announced that it's using user content and data to train AI -- but this week, its global privacy director Melinda Claybaugh acknowledged just how much of that content was actually used. The topic came up at an inquiry with Australian lawmakers, where Greens Senator David Shoebridge said, "Meta has just decided that you will scrape all of the photos and all of the texts from every public post on Instagram or Facebook since 2007, unless there was a conscious decision to set them on private. That's the reality, isn't it? To which Claybaugh answered: "Correct." On today's TechCrunch Minute, we discuss what's been scraped, what's been excluded, and how that differs depending on where you live.

Australian Facebook and Instagram posts are feeding Meta's AI machine

Facebook parent company Meta has admitted to scraping posts and photos from Australian users since as far back as 2007 to train the company's AI models. This confession came about at an inquiry that was held on September 10 in Australia, when Meta's global privacy director, Melinda Claybaugh, was asked about the company's efforts in the AI space - particularly on matters relating to the privacy of users. Per the ABC, Claybaugh confirmed that posts and photos were taken from Aussie users that were registered as over 18 years old to feed the company's large language model (LLM) development, although anyone registered under that age limit was exempt. However, photos of children uploaded on other accounts, such as by their parents or other adult family members, were fair game and could have been scraped. The most glaring admission made during the inquiry was that there is no opt-out option for Australian users unless they set all their posts to private. Such an option exists for users in the European Union where strong privacy and data protection laws are enforced. Meta using Facebook and Instagram posts to train its AI algorithms is not a revelation. It's an international practice for the tech giant and was revealed in a blog post last September. At the time, the tech giant made it clear that "We didn't train these models using people's private posts" and that "We also do not use the content of your private messages with friends and family to train our AIs". Even if posts were all set to private by an Australian user after the fact - for example, publicly available posts from 2010 being made private on hearing this news - there remains the question of whether that information would stay within the LLM's database. Unfortunately, reporting from the New York Times earlier this year indicated that data would stay in the AI model even if made private after being added in, but making future posts private will prevent their addition to the database. It's not out of the realm of possibility that an opt-out option could be introduced on the Australian version of Meta's platforms, along with other regions. The Australian government is set for a review of the Privacy Act soon, and has this week been pushing for a sweeping ban of children from social media (with an age limit yet to be determined). Meta's rival X (previously Twitter) performs the same AI training with posts and photos uploaded to its platform, however all users internationally have had the ability to opt out since July 2024. Reddit also allows for data scraping to develop Google's Gemini AI. If you've had your content on Facebook and Instagram set to private from when you started using these social media platforms, then you should be less worried about this development. Meta has said that they're not taking such privately marked content and putting it into its AI development. As pointed out by one of my colleagues, users posting innocuous updates may not be too worried about their content on Facebook and Instagram being used to train an AI model, but this does expose a glaring need for refreshed online privacy laws in Australia and other parts of the world. Facebook's product has always been its users, but those users need protections. As an Australian writing this story, I think it's a shame that there's no readily available opt-out option, but my own government not enforcing such a requirement (as in the EU) is even more of a disappointment. From a consumer perspective, the fact that this data scraping goes as far back as 2007 - long before Meta got involved with AI development - is worrying. A longtime Facebook user might not know about the company's use of posts and photos to train its AI, and may not be comfortable with it - but there remains no ability for them to remove their content that's already gone into the LLM. To be fair, I suppose, Meta isn't alone in doing this. As I've mentioned earlier, user data from Reddit and X also feeds into the development of AI - into Google's Gemini and X's Grok respectively - and the entire topic of AI has been flooded with content theft and taking information from websites without permission. It's a topic of much heated debate. My mood on this news is that Australia's online privacy laws are well overdue for a refresh and that it's an inversion of Facebook's longtime business model of selling ads. Rather than the user being the product, they are producing the product. Facebook may lay claim to content uploaded to its platforms, but it's disempowering to users to go uncredited, unpaid an unalerted about their photos and posts contributing to an AI product. Techradar has reached out to Meta on content removal avenues for its AI models, along with information on how Meta is informing users about its use of content to train AI and to ask what products the company is using the data for. We'll update this article if we get a response.

Meta to push on with plan to use UK Facebook and Instagram posts to train AI

Move to use shared posts follows information commissioner concerns and sets collision course with EU over privacy Mark Zuckberg's Meta is to go ahead with controversial plans to use millions of UK Facebook and Instagram posts to train its artificial intelligence (AI) technology, in a practice that is effectively outlawed under EU privacy laws. Meta said it had "engaged positively" with the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) over the plan, after it paused similar proposals in June in the UK and EU. The pause came after the ICO warned tech firms to respect the privacy of users when building generative AI. On Friday, the ICO made it clear it has not provided regulatory approval for the plan, but will instead monitor the experiment after Meta agreed changes to its approach. These include making it easier for users to opt out of allowing their posts to be processed for AI. Privacy campaigners, including the Open Rights Group (ORG) and None of Your Business (NOYB), are alarmed at the plans. When the plans were first mooted ORG accused Meta of "turning all of us into involuntary (and unpaid) test subjects for their experiments". Alongside NOYB it urged the ICO and the EU to block them. The plans remain on hold in Europe. Meta has accused the EU of holding back the development of AI by refusing to allow EU citizens' posts to be used for AI training. But on Friday, Meta confirmed that for UK users of Facebook and Instagram it will resume plans to use publicly shared posts to train AI models. It will not use private messages or any content from those under 18, Meta said. In a statement, Meta said: "This means that our generative AI models will reflect British culture, history and idiom, and that UK companies and institutions will be able to utilise the latest technology. We're building AI at Meta to reflect the diverse communities around the world and we look forward to launching it in more countries and languages later this year." Stephen Almond, the ICO's executive director for regulatory risk, said: "We have been clear that any organisation using its users' information to train generative AI models should be transparent about how people's data is being used. "Organisations should put effective safeguards in place before they start using personal data for model training, including providing a clear and simple route for users to object to the processing." He added: "The ICO has not provided regulatory approval for the processing and it is for Meta to ensure and demonstrate ongoing compliance."

Meta restarts plans to train AI using content from U.K. Facebook and Instagram users

Meta said Friday it is reigniting plans to train its artificial intelligence systems on public Facebook and Instagram content shared by adult users in the U.K. over the coming months. The social media giant had paused similar plans three months ago after facing regulatory pressure in the U.K. Meta said Friday it "incorporated feedback" from regulators after working with the Information Commissioner's Office. "This clarity and certainty will help us bring AI at Meta products to the U.K. much sooner," the company said in a blog post. Meta said that starting next week, adult Facebook and Instagram users in the U.K. will start seeing in-app notifications to explain what the company is doing, and how they can access an objection form to object to their data being used to train generative AI models. If users have already opted out, Meta will not contact them again.

Your old Facebook and Instagram posts were probably used to train Meta's AI. You can't opt-out as an American, but you can do this instead.

This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? Log in. The company's global privacy director, Melinda Claybaugh, made the admission when pressed during an inquiry into the matter in Australia. While users in the European Union can opt out of having their data used to train Meta's AI models, such an option doesn't exist in the US or Australia. Making sure your audience isn't set to "public" should keep any of your new posts and photos from being used for the company's AI training. The section on generative AI from Meta's privacy center says, "We use public posts and comments on Facebook and Instagram to train generative AI models for these features and for the open-source community. We don't use posts or comments with an audience other than Public for these purposes." A blog post from September 2023, when the company announced the beta version of its Meta AI assistant, says that "a combination of sources are used for training, including information that's publicly available online, licensed data and information from Meta's products and services." The post says the models weren't trained on people's private posts or their private messages, though it adds "we may use the data from your use of AI stickers, such as your searches for a sticker to use in a chat, to improve our AI sticker models." Likewise, Meta says it may use your interactions with AI features, such as "messages to AI chats, questions you ask and images you ask Meta AI to imagine for you." It may also save details and context about you from conversations you have with AI characters. Meta execs have talked about the company's approach to AI training before. Meta's chief product officer, Chris Cox, said earlier this year that Meta's text-to-image model, Emu, can produce "really amazing quality images" because Instagram has many photos of "art, fashion, culture and also just images of people and us." "We don't train on private stuff, we don't train on stuff that people share with their friends, we do train on things that are public," he said at Bloomberg's Tech Summit. Besides user-generated content, Meta is also considering deals with news publishers for access to more training data, including news, photo, and video content, BI previously reported. AI competitors like Google and OpenAI have already made deals with many news publishers for training data.

Zuckerberg poised for green light to use British Facebook posts to train AI

Move represents split from Brussels amid concerns that strict tech regulations risk growth Mark Zuckerberg's Meta is closing in on a deal with Britain's privacy watchdog to use millions of Britons' Facebook and Instagram data to supercharge its artificial intelligence (AI) technology in a break with the EU. In a decision likely to trigger a backlash from privacy advocates, the Information Commissioner's Office is expected to approve plans from Meta, the owner of Facebook and Instagram, to harvest billions of public posts and images from UK citizens. The move would represent a divergence from Meta's treatment in Brussels and comes amid mounting concern in Europe that the bloc's byzantine technology regulations risk holding back growth and threatening domestic AI companies. While Meta has already launched its AI bots in the US, it has delayed its plans for the UK and the EU amid concerns from regulators. The technology giant, led by founder Mr Zuckerberg, has been in talks for months with the UK about accessing the information for the purpose of fine-tuning its AI chatbot technology. Approving the move would represent a major break with EU policy by the UK. AI software requires vast amounts of information - known as training data - to develop. Meta and others have been looking to find large new sources of data to build more powerful AI tools. However, this rush has triggered concerns that consumers are not being made aware of how their personal information could be used and whether it is possible to opt out. In June, Meta published a blogpost on its struggles with officials in Brussels, claiming that Europe was at a "crossroads" and adding: "Activists are advocating extreme approaches to data and AI." On Thursday, Sir Nick Clegg, Facebook's public affairs chief, told a meeting in London the EU's rules were "perverse". He said: "The EU seems to, at the moment, be sort of moving towards the most perverse decision. If you want European AI, you inescapably have to train those models with EU data. "It's the same in the UK. If you want models, if you want AI avatars, chatbots who understand our language, our history, our landmarks, our very different English idioms compared to American, you have to trade it on UK data." He added that the UK could take a "more nimble" approach. Currently, stopping your data being used by Meta for AI purposes involves a complex opt-out process including filling in a written form explaining your objections. Meta has not yet started the process of harvesting UK information. It is in talks with the Information Commissioner's Office over its plans. However, two sources told The Telegraph that Meta and the regulator were closing in on an agreement, which could be announced within days. It was not clear what conditions the regulator would place on Meta to begin gathering British user data, which would probably include public posts and pictures from tens of millions of people. Meta has said it would not use private messages in its training data. Three months ago, Meta paused its planned UK launch. Stephen Almond, an executive director at the Information Commissioner's Office, said at the time that the technology giant would "review plans to use Facebook and Instagram user data to train generative AI". Privacy advocacy group the Open Rights Group has already launched a complaint to the data regulator over Meta's efforts to use Britain's data for its technology. The Government is currently conducting a lightning-fast review of the use of AI technologies, led by Matt Clifford, a former adviser to Rishi Sunak and entrepreneur. The "AI Opportunities Action Plan" comes despite Mr Sunak's government hosting a summit last November that warned of the potential risks posed by the emerging technology. Spokesmen for Meta and the ICO declined to comment.

Meta resumes AI training using public social media data, testing UK regulators By Invezz

Invezz.com - Meta Platforms is reigniting tensions with UK regulators by resuming its artificial intelligence (AI) training program, which uses public social media posts. The program had been paused for three months following inquiries about how the company would secure user consent for using their data. Now, after addressing legal concerns, Meta is testing whether it can proceed with the initiative. This move comes after Meta also faced scrutiny from the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC), the European Union's primary regulator for the company. While the UK no longer falls under the EU's jurisdiction, it still follows a privacy framework similar to the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Meta may be using this opportunity to test the waters with British authorities, hoping a favorable ruling could set a precedent for future dealings with European regulators. Rather than offering users a clear opt-in option for AI data usage, Meta is relying on an opt-out system. Users who don't want their data used for AI training must actively object. Unlike previous instances, where users had to provide reasons for opting out, Meta has simplified the process this time around. The UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) is closely monitoring the situation, insisting that Meta respects users' privacy rights. "It is for Meta to ensure and demonstrate ongoing compliance with data protection law," an ICO spokesperson stated. The ICO has emphasized the need for transparency in how user data is being utilized for AI purposes. Meta asserts that it has integrated regulatory feedback into its revamped AI training program and that the opt-out process is now more transparent. The company has also clarified that only public posts will be used for AI training, not private messages and that accounts belonging to minors will be excluded. Meta will begin rolling out these updates next week, notifying users about the upcoming changes. Those who previously opted out will not be contacted again. According to Meta, using public data from various nationalities is essential for developing AI that reflects diverse cultures, including British history, idiom, and social nuances. "We're building AI at Meta to reflect the diverse communities around the world, and we look forward to launching it in more countries and languages later this year," Meta stated. While Meta's emphasis on cultural diversity and public data may resonate with the public, the ICO's main objection has always been the handling of personal data rather than the use itself. Despite Meta's attempts to frame its AI program as globally inclusive, it's unlikely to sway regulators focused on ensuring data protection compliance. As Meta navigates these regulatory challenges, its AI training initiative could become a pivotal test case for how tech companies use public data under evolving privacy laws.

Meta fed its AI on almost everything you've posted publicly since 2007

Meta has acknowledged that all text and photos that adult Facebook and Instagram users have publicly published since 2007 have been fed into its artificial intelligence models. Australia's ABC News reports that Meta's global privacy director, Melinda Claybaugh, initially rejected claims about user data from 2007 being leveraged for AI training during a local government inquiry about AI adoption before relenting after additional questioning.