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TechCrunch Minute: Meta acknowledges it’s scraping all public posts for AI training


If you’re wondering if your Facebook and Instagram posts have been used to train Meta's AI models, the answer is almost certainly yes.

Startups aren’t giving up on the idea of AI-powered pins, with the latest device from Plaud focused on just one task: taking notes. Lockheed Martin is acquiring satellite manufacturer Terran Orbital, taking the smaller company private and potentially rescuing it from running out of cash while facing serious… The topic came up at an inquiry with Australian lawmakers, where Greens Senator David Shoebridge said, “Meta has just decided that you will scrape all of the photos and all of the texts from every public post on Instagram or Facebook since 2007, unless there was a conscious decision to set them on private.

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