Facebook admits to scraping every Australian adult user's public photos and posts to train AI, with no opt-out option
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Facebook has admitted that it scrapes the public photos, posts and other data of Australian adult users to train its AI models and provides no opt-out option, even though it allows people in the European Union to refuse consent.
  • @[email protected]
    12•10 months ago

    The existence of this article is confusing to me. FB doesn’t need to “scrape” their own site, and they don’t care about whether you set your photos to public or private.

    • DeceptichumEnglish
      8•10 months ago

      ? They own the data. They don’t need it to be public to access it.

      • Barry Zuckerkorn
        5•10 months ago

        Yes but they only performed the training on the posts and images set to be globally publicly accessible by anyone. In a sense, they took the public permissions as an indicator that they could use that data for more than just providing the bare social media service.