If you live in the european union, your posts on meta platforms will now help to feed its extramely hungry ai models. In a blog post Titled “Making Ai Work Harder for Europeans” Large language models, in the latest of big tech players declaring that your content should be belong to them.
According to the post, posts and comments made by adult users will be fed into the machine, as will questions and queries that people submit in interactions with meta ai. According to meta, scraping all these interactions and using them as training data Languages and history. “
Just as a Quick Aside: We have anthropologists and ethnography, and linguists who specialize not only in preserving culture, language, and history but also helf to contentxuelize Undrstand why something matters – Somenting that ai can’t do because it does not understand what you are feeding it. But sure, we can pour all of our posts into these black boxes and assume that what it’s spoetting back is a true and accurated replication despite its tendency to hallucinate No matter how good the data is – ball while funding for actual preservation work evaporates.
Anyway. Starting Next Week, Meta will send notifications to eu users that their posts may be used to train ai. The notifications will include a link to a form where users can object to their data being used for these purposes. The company also reiterated that it will not use private messages to train ai.
Meta’s decision to put posts through the content grinder and turns it into llm feed is just the latest example of ai big tech players putting their finger on the scale to say your content is your content is your content is not happy. Over the weekend, Block Ceo and Twitter Founder Jack Dorsey Posted “Delete all IP law“-A comment that elon musk Replied to in agreement,
It’s hard not to read that statement in the context of the ongoing lawsuits between ai companies and IP and copyright holders who are trying to keep their information out of training. Paid for it).
And, indeed, Dorsey basically confirmed it was at least partally on his mind in the replies, in which he took on Several people who pointed out that IP HELPS PrOORKS PROMTECT The WORK OF Swallowed by ai without compensation. Dorsey Insified “There Much Greater Models to Pay Creators” and “All people should have 100% agency over their data and permission in/out services that Want to use it Claimed was “a very simple model to build and enforce.” Seems like maybe he should build that, then!
Both Musk and Dorsey, of Course, Have Used IP Law to Protect their Own Projects. Dorsey Insified That it’s just defense against trolls and not something he believes in -nd look, there is no question that the current IP system has been and is abused by big players. And musk has Pledged That tesla won’t go after companies who want to use its technology in good fath -though it did Sue a company For infringing on the company’s battery patents, but hey, good faith is in the eye of the patent holder.
It just seems mighty convenent that two guys Heavily Invested In Ai Suddenly Seem to Think the system that they used to protect and build their own Empires is no longer needed now that it restrictions their access to the life of ai training.