Digital rights organizations have criticized plans to utilize public postings and photographs on Facebook and Instagram by users to train artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms owned by parent company Meta.
Users in the UK and Europe have lately received notices from the social media behemoth that their data may be utilized to “develop and improve” its artificial intelligence (AI) products as a result of changes to privacy policies that go into effect on June 26.
This covers content that individuals over the age of 18 have shared publicly on Facebook and Instagram, such as posts, photos, image descriptions, comments, and Stories, but excludes private messaging.
An “abuse of personal data for AI” was dubbed by Noyb, a European advocacy group that promotes digital rights, for the sites’ processing of years’ worth of user content.
The business has lodged complaints with eleven data protection agencies throughout Europe, requesting prompt action to prevent its intentions.
Meta stated that it was certain that its strategy met with applicable privacy rules and was in line with the way other large tech companies in Europe used data to create AI products.
It stated in a blog post dated May 22nd that user data from European users would help with a broader rollout of its generative AI products by offering more pertinent training data.
