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.

  • nillocEnglish
    1·
    5 months ago

    If it didn’t take so much electricity to do I’d support it (but not actually use it).

    • Aniki 🌱🌿@lemm.eeEnglish
      22·
      5 months ago

      You could run those models all locally without much fuss. You don’t need an entire chatGPT model to simulate the banality of social media.

      • nillocEnglish
        1·
        5 months ago

        Oooo yeah, sell it as offline/private social medial to the preppers. If we can make sure the algorithms gently steer people away from extremism over time, I think we could save the world.

        • Aniki 🌱🌿@lemm.eeEnglish
          12·
          5 months ago

          Thats a great idea! We make a social network and entice all the worst that the world has to offer and then use AI and algos in an anti-facebook kinda way where you drive only positive engagement and create false personas that uses subtle but increasingly positive messaging as a sort of deprogramming.