Today is the last day to ask Meta not to train his AI with your Facebook and Instagram public content

Goal He announced it last April and the day has arrived. Tomorrow Tuesday, May 27Meta begins to use The public content of users and their interactions with chatbot of the company on its platforms to train his AI. He does, after a false start last year, with the approval of the European Data Protection Committeeand today it is, therefore, the last day in which users can ask the target that their content is not used for this purpose.

Goal does not require its users to express themselves expressly, but Yes they must express their opposition so that it does not do it. The company has reported in the last weeks of this change in its privacy policies through Notifications in its apps and emailsmethod with which the vast majority are not even to be aware of this change, but it is what there is.

If you want the company Mark Zuckerberg Do not take advantage of the public content of your accounts on Facebook and Instagram that you have uploaded over the years and your conversations with Chatbot at WhatsApp and Messenger, you must follow these steps. If you have more than one email account on Facebook or Instagram, You must repeat the process for each of them.

How to avoid using your public content on Facebook

  • Open Facebook.
  • Play in your profile image and then in Configuration and privacy.
  • Select Privacy Center And then touch or click on the word ‘oppose ‘ Within the text with the information about the privacy center.
  • In the section Oppose the use of your information for AI in goal of the Facebook aid service, introduces on the form the mail associated with your Facebook account, optionally the reason you don’t want me to use your data and click on Send.
  • Goal will return a message indicating that ‘We will respect your objection. This means that your application will apply from now on in relation to the development and improvement of AI in goal. We will send you an email with the details’.

How to prevent Meta from using your public content on Instagram

  • Enter Instagram and select the icon with the three horizontal bars.
  • Touches in Configuration and then in Privacy Center.
  • Click or touch ‘oppose’ Within the text with the information about the privacy center.
  • Enter your mail associated with Instagram in the form, optionally the reasons, and select Send.
  • You will get the same response message as in the case of Facebook.

What data from IT uses goal to train its AI

The private conversations and the content of minors accounts They are out of reach of data collection for target training. The public content that does use goal comprises:

  • Name.
  • Facebook and Instagram username.
  • Profile photo.
  • Activity in public groups, Facebook pages and channels.
  • Activity in public domain content. For example, your comment, qualification or review in Marketplace or a public Instagram account.
  • The content ‘that you can configure as “public”, such as publications, photos and videos that you publish in your profile or stories or reels’.

Cases to oppose the use of your data is useless

Goal ensures that it will comply with all the requests you receive, but there are some cases that are exceptions:

  • When another user, who has not shown inconvenience in the use of its target content, publicly share an image in which you or your information appear.
  • When a person mentions or mentions your information in publications or public texts.
  • The content of your private messages can be public if any member of the conversation ‘decides to share them (your private messages) with our artificial intelligences’.

What happens if you ask Meta not to use your content after May 27

Well, you will arriving late. If, for example, you complete the form within a week in place, goal can use everything published until that date. Will not use the content you raise from the day you make the application.