In a recent interview, the popular author of SapiensYuval Harari, pointed out that soon the fight on social networks will not be for achieve popularity, but quite the opposite: to preserve privacy. As part of the launch of its artificial intelligence model, Meta (the group that includes WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram), announced changes to its privacy.
Since then, Meta’s generative AI, notes a press release, “collects its information from public sources, public user posts, and user interactions with AI functions. Therefore, Meta may use users’ public posts and interaction with AI features of the company to strengthen the capabilities of these functions.”
Thus, these days it has gone viral to publish a statement that, if published, guarantees that our data will not be used in Meta’s artificial intelligence training. Well the reality is that it is useless.
The post changes depending on whether it is published in Spanish or English, but the basic version is something like this: A lawyer has advised us all to publish this or there could be legal consequences. Since Meta is now a public entity, all members must publish a similar statement. If you do not post this at least once, it is assumed that you are allowing the use of your personal information and photos. I do not give you permission to use any of my data or photos”.
And the reality is that this not only has no legal validity, but benefits Instagram by making content viralgiving information about which users are carried away by the content and also helps Meta’s AI, to give you more information from us.
The statement is an example of “copy and paste,” text that contains information that is often not true but is repeatedly copied and pasted online. While in the United States there is no way to avoid this due to the country’s laws (the only thing that can be done is to make the account private to reduce Meta access), in The European Union laws protect user privacy a little more.
In a press release, Meta informed European Facebook users that they can submit an objection form that “gives them the opportunity to object to their data being used in Meta’s AI modeling efforts.” For To enable this option you have to go to our Facebook accountopen Settings and Privacy, then Privacy Center and there we will see the AI Meta option.
If you do not have a Facebook or Instagram account and you are still concerned, you can access the form directly through this page.