Meta Using Public Social Media Posts to Train AI Systems Without User Consent
• Meta is using decades of public Instagram and Facebook posts, comments, and more to train its powerful AI systems without asking users • Zuckerberg bragged they have one of the largest datasets in the world - even bigger than common datasets used to train AI • Meta is claiming full ownership of users' public social media data to build billion-dollar AI tools • This data is more valuable than ever before as AI models need huge datasets; Meta added $200B in market cap from its AI efforts • Publishers are suing Meta for using data, but regular social media users have no say despite Meta profiting from their information for years