People have been using Facebook for about 15 years now. Of course nobody imagined their posts would be used to train AI at that point. The general population had no idea that was possible until ChatGPT was released last year, if even.
It’s not about AI specifically. It’s about the awareness that, as soon as you post it to social media, your personal information is not under your control anymore. There was and is still a good reason why you should not post personal info on the internet, even on seemingly “safe” spaces like social media pages.
But people in general don’t care anyway and they won’t care about this headline too.
I think it’s less that most people don’t care, or wouldn’t if you explained it, and more that nobody has the power to really do anything about it. Even if you can cut Meta out of your life they still track you and make ghost profiles of you in their data. I’ve never input any identifying information into meta, and my name is so generic it’s practically adjacent to “John smith”, but it still knows who my family and former coworkers are.
People have been using Facebook for about 15 years now. Of course nobody imagined their posts would be used to train AI at that point. The general population had no idea that was possible until ChatGPT was released last year, if even.
It’s not about AI specifically. It’s about the awareness that, as soon as you post it to social media, your personal information is not under your control anymore. There was and is still a good reason why you should not post personal info on the internet, even on seemingly “safe” spaces like social media pages.
But people in general don’t care anyway and they won’t care about this headline too.
I think it’s less that most people don’t care, or wouldn’t if you explained it, and more that nobody has the power to really do anything about it. Even if you can cut Meta out of your life they still track you and make ghost profiles of you in their data. I’ve never input any identifying information into meta, and my name is so generic it’s practically adjacent to “John smith”, but it still knows who my family and former coworkers are.
It doesn’t matter what it’s being used for, you post publicly it can be used publicly whether that’s for a news article or to train the next ChatGPT.
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