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Plans to use Facebook and Instagram posts to train AI criticised


Public posts, images and image captions will also be used to develop parent company Meta's AI tools.

Plans to use peoples' public posts and images on Facebook and Instagram to train artificial intelligence (AI) tools belonging to parent company Meta have been attacked by digital rights groups. Noyb, a European campaign group that advocates for digital rights, called, external its processing of years' worth of user content on the sites an "abuse of personal data for AI". Tech firms have been rushing to find fresh, multiformat data to build and improve models that can power chatbots, image generators and other buzzy AI products.

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