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You just have to make a post on your Facebook profile saying that you don’t consent and that you retain all rights. Bonus points for working in some sovcit stuff.
If your fingers are crossed when you check the “I Agree” box on their TOS then the terms are legally reversed and you control Meta’s content rather than the other way around. It’s in the Magna Carta.
Those adorable baby photos you posted for your friends and family? Sorry, they’re Meta’s now.
You literally gave them to Meta. You uploaded them to Meta after agreeing to Meta’s terms of service, which essentially say “we can do what we want with the stuff you give us.” Big Bad Meta isn’t sneaking into your houses and stealing photos off of your nightstand, they’re not “seizing” anything.
Also, Meta’s AI “pipe dream” has so far been very successful. Their open-source libraries and LLaMA models have become industry standards. Their future work is likely to be productive.
Yeah it’s really wild the way everyone keeps trying to say that Meta is failing and falling apart or whatever. Meta’s doing better than it’s ever been.
Social media loves to have targets that “everyone agrees” are terrible and worthy of hating. Being part of a righteously angry mob is fun, gives a nice safe dopamine hit and lets you show you are part of the in-group.
Which isn’t to say that Meta is innocent and Zuckerberg is a poor victim, of course. But it does mean that it’s very easy to go overboard and believe false accusations that also fit with the narrative that Meta is terrible and awful and evil. There was a post a couple of weeks ago about Threads and the narrative in that conversation was that Meta was dedicated to eradicating open source (Embrace Extend Extinguish, think of XMPP!). I tried pointing out Meta’s many contributions to open source but redirecting the mob was hopeless. Sure, the motives of these contributions are selfish. They want to crush their enemies. But in this case their enemies are OpenAI and Microsoft, and the weapon they’re using is to fling open the walled gardens OpenAI depends on for the common man to enjoy.
It’s a useful cautionary tale to keep in mind whenever there’s a target that everyone around you hates because they’re “obviously” the devil. Maybe they are, but it’s likely more complicated than it seems.
Somehow people still don’t understand when a service is free. You’re the product
They don’t understand what being the product means because they don’t understand why their data being sold off is a problem because they don’t understand why their data is valuable.
He says, on a free service.
I understand the irony 😅
He says, on a free service.
I make a monthly donation to the folks running mastodon.world (they also run lemmy.world). Yeah it’s free but you can and should contribute sometimes to keep it that way.
There’s something funny about the phrase “paying for stuff so that it stays free”
It’s already in all the service agreements that you click on when you sign up. They’ve already been harvesting data. They already have the right to use your posts and pictures for whatever they want
This relies on a zero-sum view of the world, which is unfortunately common but isn’t necessarily so.
It’s like watching a rerun of “everything Blockchain”
Oh no not my fb and insta.
Oh wait. I don’t have that trash.
Carry on
Everyone. Start posting shit written by chatGPT. Accelerate the model collapse.
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The worst part is that I haven’t had an account on any of their products in well over a decade, and yet I’m sure that they’ll be able to use tons of my up-to-date info in their training.
How are they getting that up-to-date info?
- Virtually every app on your phone has facebook/instagram trackers that gets access to whatever data that app has access to
- Their ad network (that runs broadly across the internet) is not only known to fingerprint everyone that sees an ad. They’ve pioneered new was of keeping track of you even if your browser fingerprint changes.
- Facebook (and one assumes Threads/Instagram) create ghost profiles of everyone mentioned or photographed in any posts on their platform if they can’t link that mined data to an actual account. So if your friends use the platform, then you do too, whether you know it or not.
- Cambridge Analytica is probably not the only company doing that stuff, they’re just the ones that got caught.
That’s not an exhaustive list, mind you.
A quick Googling of “phones without Facebook” gives lots of options.
Facebook (and one assumes Threads/Instagram) create ghost profiles of everyone mentioned or photographed in any posts on their platform if they can’t link that mined data to an actual account. So if your friends use the platform, then you do too, whether you know it or not.
This would be Facebook using your friends’ data. It happens to be about you, but it’s not yours.
I’m not saying people shouldn’t care about privacy or take actions to protect it, but I think it’s possible to go overboard in believing that nobody is allowed to know anything about you without your permission. There’s a lot of public information that’s available to anyone simply by being in public.
If you don’t want your friends telling people about you, that’s on you to tell your friends that. If your friends refuse to keep your existence secret then you’ll have to decide whether that’s more important to you than having friends.
My phone can’t uninstall Facebook.
Then he does have an account on their products.
Probably. Guaranteed you have a shadow account in the very least.
They should just shell out 5 billion and buy reddit
LOL, it’s time to come up with fart jokes. Everyone should just communicate using fart jokes until meta bans fart jokes. Then just move on to the other words…tits, penis, butt, poop, toilet, etc etc.
I’m sure Facebook will go tits up! Specially if everyone’s tits are hard pressed on the issue. Yeah this is totally tits dude! Well tits my ass and call me honky! Tits the season to be weary fallalala la la la laaah!
This should be interesting - AI trained by bots…
It’s not private data if you publish it online.
They already had this data, I’m not sure why anyone cares about what they’re doing with it now. It’s not any worse than selling it outright.
The information on Facebook was already used to sway elections. Cambridge Analytica
the lizard king needs more data offerings to create his AI to learn to be more “human”
Now? Want?!
They think they do but they don’t. They really, really don’t.
