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Meta Admits to Scraping Your Public Posts Since 2007: Are Your Photos Feeding AI?
Meta quietly confirmed it has been using public Facebook and Instagram posts for AI training since 2007. If you’ve posted publicly, your data has likely been “scraped”. Australians (and others) can’t opt out, unlike Europeans. So, if you’ve ever publicly shared that embarrassing selfie, congratulations,…
Hot Take:
So, Meta has been sneakily training its AI on our public posts since 2007? Looks like our embarrassing high school selfies and cringe-worthy status updates have finally found a purpose outside of haunting our memories. Who knew our digital footprint would end up as AI brain food?!
Key Points:
- Meta has used public Facebook and Instagram posts since 2007 for AI training.
- Users’ data from posts not set to private has been scraped for AI models.
- Meta’s privacy director confirmed the practice during a government inquiry.
- European users can opt out due to local privacy regulations.
- Australian users might gain similar protections if local laws change.
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