Facebook and Instagram will now use your personal data for training AI. But you can do something about it.
Facebook & Instagram use your data for AI: This is how you prevent it
Do you use Facebook or Instagram? Then you have to pay attention soon. Meta (the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, among others) will use your photos and personal messages to train their AI.
Meta has said that this week they will send a message to all European users in which more is told about the changes that will come. If you don’t want your data to be used to train the AI ​​of Facebook and Instagram, you can object. With the message there is a link where you can do this. Meta says they are going to honor all requests.
Private reports are not used to train AI
Incidentally, your private messages are not used to train the AI ​​of Facebook, among others. This also includes the messages that you send in WhatsApp. Furthermore, no data from residents in the EU under the age of 18 is used.
Meta had plans for a long time to train its own AI system, but led to objections from European regulators last year. As a result, the original launch was postponed in the EU. Meta then also received considerable fines for careless handling of user data. The Dutch Data Protection Authority has indicated that they will keep a close eye on the new developments.
Facebook AI must learn from Europeans
According to Meta, it is very important that their AI learns from European data, so that the system gets a feeling for language, different cultures and the subtle differences.
You have to think of regional dialects, local habits and the different types of humor and sarcasm that differ per country (or even per city). Meta says that their AI will not perform well enough without this input and will leave the user experience.
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