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sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al to Technology@beehaw.org · 8 months ago

Facebook admits to scraping every Australian adult user's public photos and posts to train AI, with no opt-out option - ABC News

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Facebook admits to scraping every Australian adult user's public photos and posts to train AI, with no opt-out option - ABC News

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sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al to Technology@beehaw.org · 8 months ago
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Facebook has admitted that it scrapes the public photos, posts and other data of Australian adult users to train its AI models and provides no opt-out option, even though it allows people in the European Union to refuse consent.
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    Training for what exactly?

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      Why, it’s so they can detect fake, AI-generated faces, of course!

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