Meta to begin training AI on public posts from UK Facebook and Instagram users

https://www.standard.co.uk/business/business-news/meta-to-begin-training-ai-on-public-posts-from-uk-facebook-and-instagram-users-b1181957.html

Posted by tylerthe-theatre

13 Comments

  1. pipe-to-pipebushman on

    I guess it will be great for telling what time “ASDAs” is open and spewing barely intelligible racism.

  2. Great… an AI trained on Facebook and Instagram will be able to generate extreme opinions about immigrants, trans people, and contouring for a flawless-looking, sculpted complexion…

  3. Casting_in_the_Void on

    Well, yes. This is exactly what Musk is doing with X – it’s the real reason he finds value in the platform for his collective businesses in the long term. Apart from it being his personal gobshite mouthpiece 🤣

    Meta, Google, X et al are all farming social media platforms they own to train their A.I systems. It’s global.

    A.I needs to understand how many of us think – this is the way to do it. I’d venture Threads and X will be the largest harvests though.

  4. FelineIntervention on

    No one, AI or human, should have to read the amount of dog shite posts on Facebook community pages.

  5. MeanCustardCreme on

    Is any of this really surprise? That’s how these models get trained. All data available online has already been used.

  6. Facebook is mostly bots posting AI generated images of shrimp Jesus, with other bots commenting.

    I don’t see how AI is going to ever be trained again without getting high on its own supply. OpenAI had the one-and-done opportunity to analyse an unfucked internet before 2020.

  7. Puzzleheaded-Tie-740 on

    Facebook and Instagram are already so flooded with AI images that Meta’s going to end up with Habsburg AI.

  8. Benefits of not being under the EU, I guess.

    Notice **no one** is actively trying to train chatbots on data scraped from EU citizens – because GDPR allows the EU to absolutely nail them for it, and they’ve shown the political will to go after big tech, unlike every other country in the world bar China.

  9. Fortunately 15 years ago I posted a status saying I do not grant Facebook permission to use my posts, so my stuff is in the clear.

  10. I give it 2 weeks before the AI wants to ” take r country back” and posts pictures of perfectly sculpted buttocks in gym leggings.