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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

#31

Was "public" ever the default setting? I remember it as being opt-in if you ever wanted something to show beyond your friends-of-friends.

I have a very different memory of my time on Facebook 10 or so years ago... It felt like every two weeks some update would change my settings to "public" in some way.

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

#32

Funny to think that the distillation of 16 years of Facebook posts is now considered "intelligence."

I wonder how much safety work they have to do specifically because of this. I’d imagine their model might have a fairly paranoid, slightly racist bias if not. Particularly as younger demographics shifted away from FB in the last decade.

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

#33
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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

What is that assumption based on?

There have been numerous scandals over the years regarding their lack of care when handling personally identifiable data.

Meta is not who I look to for being extremely diligent with data.

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

#34

Was "public" ever the default setting? I remember it as being opt-in if you ever wanted something to show beyond your friends-of-friends.

On Facebook, public isn't the default, but on Instagram it is. All those billions of photos, including all those famous people: evidently fair game.

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

#35

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.

was it supposed to be surprising?

it's still good to have confirmation of these things that we all assume to be true.

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

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Well they don't really know if someone is an adult or not. Just because they say they are 13 doesn't mean that they really were when they signed up. And 13 is hardly an adult now is it?

Is this an important distinction?

Yes.

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

#37
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Funny to think that the distillation of 16 years of Facebook posts is now considered "intelligence."

This made me chuckle.

Lol-ed myself but OTOH if you want a model to learn how people actually speak you cannot expect to get that by reading curated scientific documents.

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

#38
It's OK. Meta is training their AI on hundreds of thousands of posts with photos of veterans with toilet plunger legs celebrating their birthdays in the middle of the street while sitting as sturdy as the Lincoln memorial. The AI brain rot has already begun in this model.
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