Meta’s AI is scraping users’ photos and posts. Europeans can opt out, but Australians cannot (www.theguardian.com)
from lemmee_in@lemm.ee to technology@lemmy.world on 12 Sep 2024 23:24
https://lemm.ee/post/42121257

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gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works on 13 Sep 2024 00:18 next collapse

activates vpn why yes, I AM a citizen of the EU!

Aatube@kbin.melroy.org on 13 Sep 2024 00:20 next collapse

solution: australia joins the EU

neshura@bookwormstory.social on 13 Sep 2024 00:28 next collapse

I mean they already take part in the Eurovision so why not? Additional bonus: people will have an even harder time differentiating Austria and Australia

Aatube@kbin.melroy.org on 13 Sep 2024 00:46 collapse

solution: EU criteria is lowered to Eurovision participation

Paradachshund@lemmy.today on 13 Sep 2024 01:25 collapse

American here. Can we come too?

Aatube@kbin.melroy.org on 13 Sep 2024 03:17 next collapse

I suggested this once and someone replied “please no you’ll bring the Republicans into the legislature”

Mr_Blott@feddit.uk on 13 Sep 2024 06:49 next collapse

Of course!

Just lose the -

  • Guns

  • Tiny-penis trucks

  • the “right” to hate-speech

  • the religious weirdo thing

And you’ll be getting close to the 20th century!

Paradachshund@lemmy.today on 13 Sep 2024 14:07 collapse

No arguments from me. When can we start?

Mr_Blott@feddit.uk on 13 Sep 2024 14:36 collapse

You just need to learn Ode to Joy off by heart, and leave all your “cheese” at the border

Paradachshund@lemmy.today on 13 Sep 2024 15:26 collapse

Moving the goal posts 😥

Yeah American Cheese the product is some crazy shit. You should try some artisan cheese from Wisconsin, though. World class stuff over there. I had a 15 year cave aged cheddar from there once and I’m still thinking about it to this day.

wuphysics87@lemmy.ml on 14 Sep 2024 02:56 collapse

Excuse me. It’s American cheese food product to you. You uncultured… I mean it uncultured…

exu@feditown.com on 13 Sep 2024 07:40 collapse

Please make sure to implement democracy first, we have enough issues with dictatorships and oligopolies already.

dan@upvote.au on 13 Sep 2024 01:55 next collapse

Public posts only… Not private posts. Honestly, if you ever post anything publicly on the internet (on any site, including here on Lemmy), you should assume it’s going to be used for all sorts of things.

I have no doubt that Lemmy posts are part of the data being ingested into AI training. Lemmy and other Fediverse apps are extremely easy to scrape since anyone can subscribe to a Lemmy community, Mastodon account, etc with ActivityPub and get all new posts and comments pushed to them. Don’t even have to actually scrape anything.

EleventhHour@lemmy.world on 13 Sep 2024 01:58 next collapse

Oh, look, a news headline from five years ago

hades@lemm.ee on 13 Sep 2024 04:22 next collapse

False. Everyone can opt out of Facebook.

catloaf@lemm.ee on 13 Sep 2024 04:27 next collapse

No, you can’t. They collect your data even if you’ve never had an account, or if you’ve deleted your account.

theverge.com/…/facebook-shadow-profiles-zuckerber…

NikkiDimes@lemmy.world on 13 Sep 2024 05:26 collapse

False. They’ll track whether you have an account or not. Even NoScript won’t completely disable their tracking. If you use the web, Meta is watching you.

MeekerThanBeaker@lemmy.world on 13 Sep 2024 07:41 collapse

Joke’s on them. I go to all those weird porn sites just so they won’t know the real me. I would never be interested in such filth. It’s so that their A.I. will get confused, get hoodwinked. Yup. That’s why I do that.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I must go mess up their algorithm again.

geography082@lemm.ee on 13 Sep 2024 05:18 next collapse

WhatsApp is my major concern . It’s a BIG issue that every one in Americas and Europe uses that shit. Very concerning.

orl0pl@lemmy.world on 13 Sep 2024 10:43 next collapse

or Messenger

geography082@lemm.ee on 13 Sep 2024 11:19 collapse

Another nasty one

TheDarksteel94@sopuli.xyz on 13 Sep 2024 12:39 collapse

It’s a way smaller userbase, but imagine what Facebook does with the Quest headsets

pdxfed@lemmy.world on 13 Sep 2024 15:37 collapse

Ready player one about covers it

TheDarksteel94@sopuli.xyz on 13 Sep 2024 22:47 collapse

Can’t wait for all the weird VR sex stuff that’s in the book lol

muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee on 13 Sep 2024 06:29 next collapse

This is why i done use meta shit. Among other reasons.

retrogirl@lemmings.world on 13 Sep 2024 06:43 next collapse

You CAN opt out of using anything Meta offers. Just don’t use that abusive corporate crap!

The fact that they really want to disrespect your privacy, scrape every last morsel of anything they can get there grubby mits on for serving you ads, and feed you altered propaganda and shit that they think you should see says volumes about you if you allow them to do that to you. It says a lot about the Australian government too then. Here’s EU taking these greedy corporate monsters to task while Australia is talking about giving them EVEN MORE personal information by trying to enforce ineffective faulty age verification with biometric government issued ID on social media. Just walk away.

0laura@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 18 Sep 2024 07:04 collapse

there’s shadow profiles, they track you even if you never go on Facebook.com.

rottingleaf@lemmy.world on 14 Sep 2024 03:11 next collapse

I mean, Australians won’t care a lot after Europeans have scraped their continent

KellysNokia@lemmy.world on 14 Sep 2024 03:51 collapse

Meta don’t scrape user data…they already have it stored neatly in databases with supporting APIs