Sick of Pesky IP Laws Slowing AI Growth, Tech Titans Think Everything Should be Public Now

If you live in the European Union, your posts on Meta platforms will now help to feed its extremely hungry AI models. In a blog post titled “Making AI Work Harder for Europeans” (please hold your eye roll), the company announced that it will start to use public-facing interactions across its platforms like Facebook and Instagram to train large language models, in the latest of Big Tech players declaring that your content should belong to them. According to the post, posts and comments made by adult users will be fed into the machine, as will questions and queries that people submit in interactions with Meta AI. According to Meta, scraping all these interactions and using them as training data “will better support millions of people and businesses in the EU by teaching AI at Meta to better understand and reflect their cultures, languages and history.” Just as a quick aside: we have anthropologists and ethnographers, and linguists who specialize not only in preserving culture, language ... Read full article.