Zuck Brags About How Much of Your Facebook, Instagram Posts Will Power His AI
gizmodo.com
Social media companies claim to own your online profiles, and now they're generating billions by using them to train AI.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/11642180

Instagram and Facebook have addicted users for the last 20 years, making sure to monetize us through advertisers every step of the way. Now, they’re revisiting your old posts, your special moments, and your big life updates, and using it to create billion-dollar AI tools. Zuckerberg’s braggadocious claim about Meta’s very large dataset comes shortly after The New York Times sued OpenAI over intellectual property. But Meta is pulling an old trick out of its playbook: extracting as much value out of Instagram and Facebook users as humanly possible, and totally owning your online self.

    • Buddahriffic@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      8 months ago

      Yeah, an AI is only as good as it’s training, so they are just going to end up with the worst AI. I bet there will be a ShitFacebookAISays community or something like that soon after the public gains access to it.

  • FaceDeer@kbin.social
    392·
    8 months ago

    Zuckerberg: Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard just ask. I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS

    [Redacted Friend’s Name]: What? How’d you manage that one?

    Zuckerberg: People just submitted it. I don’t know why. They “trust me” Dumb fucks.

    This exchange was from 2004, when Zuckerberg first launched Facebook from his college dorm. Facebook has never pretended to be anything other than what it is, people keep giving it their information, and then they make a surprised-Pikachu face and complain when Facebook does exactly what they’ve always done with it. What Facebook said they would do in the TOS that they agreed to.

    Dumb fucks.

  • BurningnnTree@lemmy.oneEnglish
    17·
    8 months ago

    I’ve been thinking lately about how someone could use AI to make a “social network” site that works just like Facebook, except the user is the only real person and everyone else is AI. The AI users would respond very favorably to everything you post, and all of your posts would go viral. It would be kind of like an AI girlfriend, except instead of providing companionship, it would make you feel like you’re famous and popular. (I doubt Facebook would want to be associated with a product like that, but I bet someone will make something like that eventually.)

  • Jaysyn@kbin.social
    122·
    8 months ago

    Meta’s entire network is blocked at my router, so good luck with that.

    • just another dev@lemmy.my-box.devEnglish
      12·
      8 months ago

      That’s okay, it’s not blocked on the routers and phones of all the other people who let Facebook scan their phones with your address in it, or who post photos with you in it.

      Make no mistake - Facebook has a profile on you. You just don’t have the login to it.

  • Arkaelus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    8 months ago

    cracks knuckles Time to make a new fake account and nuke them with shitposting and Grandma Memes!

  • Sanctus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    8 months ago

    I still use messenger cause all my friends are there. I have it on its own device because yuck. It might be time to abandon them and say if they want DnD updates they need to come to Matrix.

    • Aniki 🌱🌿@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      8 months ago

      you can always use mbasic on mobile without having to install an app. That’s how i do it with firefox and the facebook container extension with the facebook feed blocker extension that still works on mbasic.

      • Sanctus@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        8 months ago

        I’ll look into that. My work gifted me a fold 5 after I only had the 3 for 2 years. Grateful but didnt really need it. So I ripped everything I could of google and samsung out of the 3 but left messenger on there. I’ll mess around with mbasic because you can’t really remove any facebook packages with adb without the apps also dying.

  • peopleproblems@lemmy.worldEnglish
    71·
    8 months ago

    To do what?

    I mean I don’t know if y’all been on Facebook since 200X but it’s not exactly a place of intelligence

    • ripcord@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      8 months ago

      Instagram would likely be dramatically more useful to mine for an image generator than Facebook for a textbot

    • Chakravanti@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      8 months ago

      Apparently Ai eats stupId and it makes it smart because it doesn’t caRe about the DIfferenCe and doesn’t need to Know either.

    • Aniki 🌱🌿@lemm.eeEnglish
      11·
      8 months ago

      I have both and don’t update them ever so that they can’t make a fake profile for me that I cannot control.

  • TherouxSonfeir@lemm.eeEnglish
    31·
    8 months ago

    Well, people gave him the data and signed his agreement, so this should be expected. And honestly, this is a far better use of the data than selling it to people, which they are also doing. I have no interest in meta and I won’t ever use what they make, but I’m interested in machine learning getting better. Of course this is Meta so whatever they make is going to eventually be a bad idea. Hopefully it’s not skynet. 🤞

    • rdyoung@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      8 months ago

      Can we get Samaritan? I’d love to join the fight against it.

      Damn, now it’s time for a re-watch.