No, Meta is not scraping your DMs to train its AI

Fed into AI." Users scrolling through Instagram might understandably stop to read these claims, and may, also understandably, feel concerned about their data across their various Meta accounts. The ...

Hate Meta AI? You’ll soon be forced to use it in WhatsApp, as Meta moves to ban ChatGPT, Copilot and more

When that happens, AI companies will be banned from using WhatsApp’s API for their own chatbots, meaning ChatGPT, Copilot and ...
Snopes.com

'Goodbye Meta AI' Message Won't Stop Company from Scraping Your Data

In September 2024, numerous social media users shared a message that claimed to protect users on Instagram and Facebook against Meta using their personal information to train its ...
Forbes

Authors Challenge Meta’s Use Of Their Books For Training AI

As part of their livelihood, there are many leadership strategists, consultants, thinkers, and practitioners who write books. Any of these authors also have a complicated relationship with LibGen. For ...
Ars Technica

Meta backtracks on rules letting chatbots be creepy to kids

After what was arguably Meta’s biggest purge of child predators from Facebook and Instagram earlier this summer, the company now faces backlash after its own chatbots appeared to be allowed to creep ...
Vanity Fair

This Is How Meta AI Staffers Deemed More Than 7 Million Books to Have No “Economic Value”

Last month, I prompted Meta AI with a question: “Is it okay to use pirated books to train AI?” The machine’s response was unequivocal. “Using pirated books to train AI is not okay,” it admonished. “In ...
Fox Business

Senator slams Big Tech's role in 'pirating' copyrighted books for AI training purposes

Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., called out artificial intelligence companies like Meta for their alleged role in taking more than 200 terabytes of published works from authors without paying them a dime to ...
Time

No, Resharing That Viral ‘Goodbye Meta AI’ Post Will Not Legally Protect Your Social Media Data

“Goodbye Meta AI.” You may have seen these words posted on Facebook or Threads or most likely Instagram, where a viral story template has been shared by more than 500,000 users who seem to think that ...

When will the FTC finally quit its antitrust crusade?

The FTC’s continued focus on untested legal frameworks, rather than provable consumer harm, is increasingly hard to square ...
The Forward

‘From the river to the sea’ is not hate speech says Meta’s Oversight Board

“From the river to the sea” is not hate speech or incitement, according to Meta’s Oversight Board’s Wednesday ruling. The social media behemoth’s Oversight Board had requested experts from a wide ...
techtimes

Meta to Start Using European User Data for AI Training, But EU Citizens May Opt Out

Meta is now going aggressive in improving its artificial intelligence experience on social media, particularly in Europe, as the company has announced that it will now start collecting user data in ...