AXIOS October 2, 2023
Meta admitted late last week that it has used mountains of public Facebook posts to train its AI models, per Reuters.
Why it matters: As the AI boom continues, content creators are challenging tech companies’ use of their material in the development of advanced AI tools — and in Facebook’s case, “content creators” means a few billion people.
Details: After Meta unveiled its new AI assistants last week, its president of global affairs, Nick Clegg, told Reuters that the “vast majority” of the training data used to develop them came from publicly available posts, including on Facebook and Instagram.
- “We’ve tried to exclude datasets that have a heavy preponderance of personal information,” Clegg told Reuters — such as data...
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