Meta Trained its New AI Using Public Instagram and Facebook Posts
Summary
This week, Meta unveiled a host of new AI-powered features that would soon roll out to its products and services. One new addition is Meta AI, a virtual assistant that will soon live on its apps and was trained using Instagram and Facebook posts. “We’ve tried to exclude datasets that have a heavy preponderance of personal information,” Clegg tells the publication, adding that the “vast majority” of data Meta used for training was publicly available as the company wanted to respect privacy concerns. “Whether creative content is covered or not by existing fair use doctrine… We think it is, but I strongly suspect that’s going to play out in litigation,” he says. The company doesn’t appear to support using its AI systems to generate copyrighted imagery, and a separate Meta spokesperson tells Reuters that its terms of service bar users from generating content that violates privacy and intellectual property rights.