Heads up to anyone using facebook or insta: you'll receive a notification about your data being used to train AIs. The opt out process is deliberately convoluted and you have to fill out a form to object. This is what I wrote in mine, and the objection was immediately registered as successful, so feel free to copy.

Masto reply bores, this is not a post on which to fart out your opinions about Meta or AI or whatever. So don't. I'm sharing helpful info for people who need it, not for you.

@stavvers I get the impression they're approving pretty much everybody who fills it out right now, but yeah, your text is a good call

(already got mine sorted, keywords included "highly sensitive PII" and "Cambridge Analytica")

@flippac @stavvers

Do you know where this is happening? I haven't received a notification but mine is a UK/ex-EU account. I suspect or at least hope that GDPR rules might limit this sort of shit..

@regordane @flippac @stavvers I got it last night in the UK - I just put that under the Data Protection Act 2018 (UK successor to GDPR) it's "illegal without my explicitly consenting - and I don't." It was immediately approved: I suspect they're just banking on enough users not bothering to object.