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 I'm UK-based and I received it. Might be staggering rollout
@stavvers @regordane @flippac This just makes me worried that only GDPR-protected people are getting the warnings.

@ehurtley @stavvers @regordane @flippac

I am in the U.S. I don't recall being offered a warning or a chance to stop Meta from training from my data, on either FB or IG.

Just now, when I asked #Facebook "How do I stop Facebook from training AI from my data?" its first suggestion was to delete my account.

#Privacy #AI #DataScraping #AItraining

@AnneTheWriter1 @stavvers @regordane @flippac Wow. Yeah, that tracks. I still technically have a Facebook account, but I deleted basically all content from it other than my "bye Facebook" post in 2018 (and a couple obituaries. :-/) just because I have family members who would fall for someone impersonating me, so I made it clear that this is my only account, and if I ever come back, I'll edit my "bye" post.
@AnneTheWriter1 @stavvers @regordane @flippac Although now that I log in and actually check my profile (I log in about once a month just to see if any extended family members post anything important - like a cousin posting that she's finally cancer-free a few months ago!) I do see a bunch of old posts that resurrected from the dead! (In many cases, the content of the post is empty, but all the comments, including my own, are still there. Potentially leaking private data.)

@AnneTheWriter1 @stavvers @regordane @flippac Aha. It looks like it's all "posts" that were posted by third party apps many years in the past. A bunch of empty posts "from Netflix", a bunch of photo posts by now-long-dead-service EyeFi.

SIGH

Deleting those now.