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

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Post by RHSeeger »

lxgr wrote: post #279
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…

> Discord is great for anything related to software or hardware with computers No, even that is terrible compared to forums – it doesn't get indexed by search engines!

Discord is fine as a active chat medium. It is absolutely awful as an information store. Even beyond the "can't be indexed by search engines" (which is catastrophically bad all by itself), it's just horrible for dealing with any information that isn't part of an active combination _right now_.

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

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Post by Animats »

blub wrote: post #76
Animats wrote: post #56

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> i give it a year or less. Yesterday.[1] [1] https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2025/06/26/jd-vance-me...

According to the thread on /r/europe that person smoked weed and lied about it on their immigration form.

It's not a question on the Customs and Border Protection form for US visitors.[1]

[1] https://www.cbp.gov/sites/default/files/2024-07/cbp_form_605...

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Post by whoisyc »

rchaud wrote: post #337
whoisyc wrote: post #335

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Limiting the spread of the information is a feature, not a bug. You don’t want others to take your 2009 forum post out of context and ridicule you in front of a million angry YouTube viewers.

On a forum, "you" is an anonymous username, so ridicule is meaningless. It doesn't follow you into the real world.

Facebook is used to coordinate real world events. Think weekend hikes, dog shows, garage sales, you name it. If you have to hide your real world identity to post on a forum, then it will not be able to replace Facebook.

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Post by StochasticLi »

demarq wrote: post #265

Question to the Meta engineers on here, do you ever speak out about this internally?

No. I worked at Meta, and these are mostly mid-skilled engineers who want to make money while working a few hours a week and pretending to work the rest. They would never attract top talent because top engineers can earn 10 times their salary on their own without leaving the terminal nowadays. Even if they offered $10M/year, I feel these kinds of people can't be bought.

It's just a job. You will get fired if you question people above you.

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

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Post by GoblinSlayer »

nelox wrote: post #194
notsydonia wrote: post #163

It's also a huge danger as the system FB uses to tag and categorize photos is clearly flawed. example: Meta took a business page I ran that had over 150K followers offline because of a photo that violated their 'strict anti-pornography' etc etc policies. The picture was of a planet - Saturn - and it took weeks of the most god-awful to and fro with (mostly) bots to get them to revoke the ban - their argument was that…

Venus, in her naked glory, I could understand at a stretch, but Saturn?

The AI isn't even wrong, naked planets are bannable: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sailor_Saturn

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Post by labrador »

geor9e wrote: post #246

Hacker News users keep getting worked up about opt-in services they don't want to opt in to.

It's like that Ricky Gervais joke: Guy walks to a public square, sees a message board and on it sees an ad for guitar lessons. Guy gets upset and angrily says "but I don't want guitar lessons!" Calls the number and complains to the guitar teacher.

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Post by bnjms »

what wrote: post #42
bnjms wrote: post #36

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It isn’t nice to use though. You select your picture then when you need to add more you’ve got to go back into the settings for that app and select the picture. Then add the picture you selected. I’m grateful though. We would have called meta malware back when.

The built in camera roll widget lets you edit what pictures are allowed without going to settings. Maybe it’s a new change or the apps you use have a custom photo picker, I dunno.

Thanks. It must be improved since I last used it. I only need it very rarely and mostly block Meta and Snapchat.

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Post by puttycat »

Anon1096 wrote: post #278
puttycat wrote: post #253

Some time ago I asked on HN "will you go work for Meta?" [1]. I'm so glad I didn't pass their (ridiculous, redundant) set of interviews. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40935199

So you failed their interview and then proceeded to post a whole thread to get validation that Meta's not a good company to work for? And you're still posting about it a year later? Talk about sour grapes.

Thanks for the good vibes. Did it occur to you that the original question might have been posted before the rejection?

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Post by mystifyingpoi »

fn-mote wrote: post #167
mystifyingpoi wrote: post #135

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For real. I've been searching for a swimming school for our daughter in Poland. The one that looked promising had a contract with clause, giving the school full rights to post any pictures of her in the swimming pool to social media. Of course, parents are strictly prohibited from making ANY photos at all. Fuck them.

I hope you explained your feelings to an administrator. In the US, they would be completely clueless.

Maybe I should have. There were more red flags in the contract draft. Like if I don't bring her to the lessons, I get no money back, but if they fail to do the lesson at all, they just keep the money and can reschedule. I have no clue why anyone signs this. I mean, I know, people don't care.

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Post by fsflover »

ethagnawl wrote: post #100
goku12 wrote: post #2

This is truly egregious. Facebook and Instagram are installed by default on many android phones and cannot be fully uninstalled. And even if asked for consent, many people may choose the harmful option by mistake or due to lack of awareness. It's alarming that these companies cannot be held to even the bare minimum standards of ethics. As an aside, there was a discussion a few days back where someone argued that bein…

This is why I just spent weeks tracking down a modern device that I could vendor unlock and install LineageOS on. It's no longer possible on recent OnePlus devices and many people selling other brands on Swappa and Amazon claim their devices are vendor unlockable when they're actually just carrier unlockable. I don't want any vendor's crapware running on my device. I hate that I "have to" use Google Play to function…

> I should sit down and try something like postmarketOS or Mobian as a portable Linux machine is what I really want ...

Or you can buy Librem 5 with preinstalled Debian-like OS. Works for me.

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