Facebook's New Collage Feature May Use Your Images for AI Training

[Pezimak]

Is there anything that Zuckerberg won't steal?

Does he think Leviticus 25.44 though 46 are still in effect?

I often say if Zuckerberg could get it, he would quite literally happily steal your soul and sell it for cash as he is that type of person.

 

[titanium69]

If cancer was a person it would be zuckerberg

 

[iZac]

AI training is like the nascent days of online piracy - no regulation and no companies curating content that can legally be used instead of it.

I’d like to say that there’s a big opportunity for companies to create ethical data sets to train AI models on. Unfortunately, companies like Meta and Google have already duped billions of users into offering up their entire digital histories.

We’ve already lost.

 

[Innovati0n]

I am absolutely stunned

 

[neuropsychguy]

100%. I came off all social media about 18 months ago and I don’t miss it whatsoever. All of it is toxic and it’s never going to get better. I don’t understand why people still take it so seriously - it’s not real life.

Wishful thinking but I’d like to think that within 10 years no one will use it anymore.

If you’re commenting here or even reading comments here or anywhere online, you’re not off all social media. MacRumors forums are social media.

 

[turbineseaplane]

I totally had FOMO but the most surprising thing is that it took me less than a week to not even care about what was going on on Instagram or Threads anymore after years of 50+ pickups per day.

It’s so incredible isn’t it?

People don’t realize how much like an actual drug it is.

And like being hooked on a drug, you really don’t understand it until you’re off of it.

Get this toxic company out of your life people!

 

[mjs916]

I wonder if this is one of the reasons Apple AI is so delayed. Could they actually be trying to develop and train AI by not using stolen (unpaid for) resources or privacy-violating processes? I think that is a big aspect of AI that doesn’t get enough coverage.

They could be, but they did get hit with a lawsuit in California by a couple of NY neuroscientists who claim their copyrighted books were in a data set Apple used.

 

[canadianreader]

I know some many people are afraid or have FOMO, but quitting Facebook/Instagram was the best thing. I share worthwhile pictures via iMessage with real friends (and have geniune non-public conversations with them).

Stop using Meta and stop feeding them your data.

Just in case you send a photo to someone on iMessage they save it to Photos and have their FB, Insta app with full access to Photos albums. Your data inadvertently ends up in Meta's hand without you knowing. This is the future of minimal online interactions to save one's privacy from these corporations.

 

[PowerButton]

Wait until you see what they’re going to do with all those video and pictures users of MetaGlasses will be taking of other non-consenting people..

This one really fires me up. To me, wearing Meta Glasses is social taboo.

 

[xander49x]

yet another reason I do not use any Meta products or chat bots. If I need to find something out I research it not using Google.

 

[CocktailHour]

Nuking Facebook as soon as possible. And can't wait for the Generative AI Slop Bubble to burst. And no, not interested in the propaganda, thanks.

 

[Arran]

So users’ private data will help power and reinforce the fake world they’re trapped in. It really is the Matrix.

 

[Arran]

I wonder if this is one of the reasons Apple AI is so delayed. Could they actually be trying to develop and train AI by not using stolen (unpaid for) resources or privacy-violating processes? I think that is a big aspect of AI that doesn’t get enough coverage.

Yep. Ethical is hard-work. Unethical is a shortcut. And in business whoever launches first wins.

I guess that all those poached AI experts that Meta grabbed from Apple came in handy .

Even if Meta doesn’t use the poached experts’ skills, they’re slowing Apple’s progress towards a more ethical product.

And in business whoever …

 

[seinman]

And in business whoever launches first wins.

Well that’s the dumbest take I’ve heard all month.

Betamax launched first, VHS won.
Macintosh launched first, Windows won.
Newton launched first, Palm won.
Rio launched first, iPod won.
Friendster launched first, Facebook won.
Yahoo launched first, Google won.
HD-DVD launched first, Blu-ray won.
BlackBerry launched first, Apple/Google won.

Should I keep going?

 

[TVreporter]

Well I used to like Facebook - it helped me reconnect with people I hadn’t seen since high school. I’ve watched friends’ kids grow up and regretfully I’ve done the same sharing photos of mine - all private postings among friends. Never would anything be made public.

What’s the best alternative? Someone makes their own website content can also be swiped. Send photo or videos via Gmail and it’s probably being scanned too.

iMessage and iCloud as the only safe resort?

As many have said, the damage has been done, Pandora’s data box can’t be closed.

 

[OliOliOliOli]

You Still on this ****?
I dont use my account from 2012 and I removed all the app that I know they are under meta…

 

[segfaultdotorg]

Didn't Facebook start off as a college app?