Kevin BeaumontMay 14, 2025

If you’re in the EU and you opted out of Meta training generative AI on your Facebook, Threads and Instagram posts and pictures, Meta are requiring you to opt out *again* or they will continue training on your data.

Users have until May 27 2025 to opt out again or forever lose the right. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/05/meta-is-making-users-who-opted-out-of-ai-training-opt-out-again-watchdog-says/

This is the random ass opt out URL, which isn’t advertised in their apps: https://www.facebook.com/help/contact/6359191084165019

Instagram opt out: https://help.instagram.com/contact/233964459562201

Meta is making users who opted out of AI training opt out again, watchdog says

EU users have less than two weeks to opt out of Meta’s AI training.

Ars Technica
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@GossiTheDog clearly, there's never been a better time to just delete meta property accounts. I did it a month ago, and while I had no choice but to set some long distance friendships on fire at the same time, I wasn't going to be held to ransom by the fascist plasticine android any more.

I do keep finding myself going to open FB/IG which is really kind of jarring to have unavoidably discovered how much of a reflex it had become to any indecision about what to do for the next 60s.

May 14, 2025 at 9:53pmWeb