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Facebook scraped every Australian adult user's public posts to train AI

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Re: Facebook scraped every Australian adult user's public posts to train AI

#21

Why is this surprising? They’ve always done this. In fact I’d be surprised if they didn’t do this. Fwiw - llama is free to use. So I guess it’s a good enough return. I don’t use Facebook. I’m not sure if they can peek into WhatsApp messages.

Need to test how good facebooks sanitization was, maybe you could find some PII in llama responses with the right prompt.

Re: Facebook scraped every Australian adult user's public posts to train AI

#22

Why is this surprising? They’ve always done this. In fact I’d be surprised if they didn’t do this. Fwiw - llama is free to use. So I guess it’s a good enough return. I don’t use Facebook. I’m not sure if they can peek into WhatsApp messages.

They did get sued successfully recently by an AG for the autotag faces in photo feature, so maybe another lawsuit is in the cards.

Re: Facebook scraped every Australian adult user's public posts to train AI

#23

I am very likely in the minority here, but I think AI SHOULD be trained on everything that is in the public sphere. I'd be disappointed if it wasn't trained on everything they had access to. If it is trained on private information, then I would have issue with it.

"If they can, they will."

Re: Facebook scraped every Australian adult user's public posts to train AI

#24

Why is this surprising? They’ve always done this. In fact I’d be surprised if they didn’t do this. Fwiw - llama is free to use. So I guess it’s a good enough return. I don’t use Facebook. I’m not sure if they can peek into WhatsApp messages.

Need to test how good facebooks sanitization was, maybe you could find some PII in llama responses with the right prompt.

I'd assume that was one thing they were extremely diligent about ironing out, doing this at scale.

Re: Facebook scraped every Australian adult user's public posts to train AI

#26
Not surprised at all. Facebook owns the platform and outlined in the ToU that they can do whatever they want with the content you post on there.

At least it's better than scraping content off platform (which I'm sure they've done) and using that, but using content posted on their own platform seems like a no-brainer.

Re: Facebook scraped every Australian adult user's public posts to train AI

#27

If it's publicly posted, it literally means that everybody can read it. What's exactly the issue here?

Internet pubic and Facebook public are two different things. The latter can't be scrapped easily or really discovered at all. It's not indexed or usable outside of Facebook, and most folks don't think public means "folks not on Facebook".

Re: Facebook scraped every Australian adult user's public posts to train AI

#29

I am very likely in the minority here, but I think AI SHOULD be trained on everything that is in the public sphere. I'd be disappointed if it wasn't trained on everything they had access to. If it is trained on private information, then I would have issue with it.

You're probably among friends on this site, but outside tech coded spaces, most people understand that publicly available is not the same thing as an unlimited license to do whatever you want.
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