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Facebook is asking to use Meta AI on photos you haven’t yet shared

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Re: Facebook is asking to use Meta AI on photos you haven’t yet shared

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Post by bee_rider »

> Unfortunately for end users, in tech companies’ rush to stay ahead, it’s not always clear what they’re agreeing to when features like this appear.

At this point, is there really a lack of clarity? I think we all know Facebook is going to interpret any permission to look at anything, as full permission to do whatever the hell they want with it.

There are people who care about this, and people who don’t. Telling ourselves there’s confusion… I think is not going to produce an accurate model of reality.

I think these social media companies are evil. I just don’t see the point in deluding myself into thinking that they are outsmarting everybody. It is a difference of priorities, not smarts.

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Post by xrisk »

unfolding wrote: post #275
mslansn wrote: post #254

Earlier quoted context omitted.

All companies want you to give them more money no matter the cost.

they don't want your money - they want your attention

They want your attention because it makes them money. It’s not attention for attention’s sake.

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Post by spacemadness »

gambiting wrote: post #255
fredley wrote: post #250

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The best time to delete Facebook was many years ago. The second best time is now.

Unfortunately, many of the old forums for various non-IT-related hobbies have disappeared and moved over to facebook groups and there is no alternative as such. Discord is great for anything related to software or hardware with computers, there are some fantastic communities, but if you are into cars or mountain biking or watches or fellwalking/hiking etc......you really don't have any alternative to facebook. I'm tr…

Yes, this makes me sad how so many hobby groups are trapped within FB. It’s usually hobbies with an older demographic.

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Post by MOARDONGZPLZ »

pyman wrote: post #238

The joy of deleting Facebook in 2021 is something I'll never be able to put into words. A company that's right up there with gambling and tobacco: designed to keep you hooked, no matter the cost.

Facebook is the worst. I haven’t had the app itself in a decade, but use the mobile version in a mobile browser to catch up on friends’ posts. I hope they go through with Zuckerberg’s idea of removing all connections, at which point the lift to reconnect is too great and I will actually delete my account (and I was one of the first FB users when they expanded to my school just after Harvard).

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Post by arccy »

pyman wrote: post #271
gambiting wrote: post #243

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I was going to say Instagram is much worse in terms of keeping you hooked but then I remembered who owns it.

Facebook is way worse than Instagram. I've never, ever seen an algorithm as evil and anti-social as the one Facebook's programmers created. At one point, it was showing my family and friends a comment my cousin had made about a politician, and they started getting into heated arguments with him. And this kept happening again and again. It honestly felt like the algorithm was trying to polarise entire families and fri…

Yeah facebook is definitely worse, though it's kind of like twitter: any action can become an item in other people's timelines.

instagram is still bad now that they push more ads and content from people you don't follow onto you, but at least it's only things that are explicitly posted, and it's easier to maintain multiple profiles with different feeds

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Post by TeMPOraL »

aunty_helen wrote: post #259
gambiting wrote: post #255

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unfortunately, many of the old forums for various non-IT-related hobbies have disappeared and moved over to facebook groups and there is no alternative as such. Discord is great for anything related to software or hardware with computers, there are some fantastic communities, but if you are into cars or mountain biking or watches or fellwalking/hiking etc......you really don't have any alternative to facebook. I'm tr…

Yes the death of forums is one of the huge hidden costs and another great reason to hate fb. Now info you search for online about cars comes from forums that haven’t had a post in the last year, yet in 2009 someone asked a great question about part compatibility. We need a pirate effort to exfiltrate this data back into the public domain.

Unfortunately we're facing a cultural issue here as well - people moved on from Facebook to Discord or private WhatsApp groups, and young would-be pirates see it as normal and good.

Re: Facebook is asking to use Meta AI on photos you haven’t yet shared

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Post by windex »

I mentioned this on another thread. I tried my best to avoid FB, but then they acquire products like WhatsApp to then hoover up personal data again. This shouldn't be allowed. PII and personal data should be bound to the original terms on which the product launched.

Zuck should find a quiet part of the internet or the metaverse to curl up and fade away. The guy just doesn't have any redeeming qualities.

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