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Zuckerberg Brags About How Your Facebook, Instagram Posts Will Power His AI (gizmodo.com)

submitted 8 months ago by ForgottenFlux@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Instagram and Facebook have addicted users for the last 20 years, making sure to monetize us through advertisers every step of the way. Now, they’re revisiting your old posts, your special moments, and your big life updates, and using it to create billion-dollar AI tools. Zuckerberg’s braggadocious claim about Meta’s very large dataset comes shortly after The New York Times sued OpenAI over intellectual property. But Meta is pulling an old trick out of its playbook: extracting as much value out of Instagram and Facebook users as humanly possible, and totally owning your online self.

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[–] ReginaPhalange@lemmy.world 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It didn't. FB still recognize my face when familly members post a pic with me My profile still exist, and so is the social graph.

I tried to log in after years of no use , to find a Delete all data" button - Can't log in anymore (no password resets, no recovery process).

" You stopped using us, it doesn't mean we will stop using you"

[–] USSEthernet@startrek.website 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I deleted all of my pictures and posts before I deleted my account. They probably still have all the data, but no one can see it.

[–] root@aussie.zone 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I've just started deleting my stuff. Their mass delete doesn't seem to work and it looks like i need to do it one at a time manually. Argh.

[–] USSEthernet@startrek.website 1 points 7 months ago

At the time I did it there was a browser extension that mass deleted everything. But again, that was like 7 years or so ago.