Meta uses Facebook posts to train AI models

Meta admits to using public Facebook, Instagram posts to train AI models during Parliamentary committee hearing.

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00:00The truth of the matter is that unless you consciously had set those posts to private

00:09since 2007, Meta has just decided that you will scrape all of the photos and all of the

00:17text from every public post on Instagram or Facebook that Australians have shared since

00:232007, unless there was a conscious decision to set them on private.

00:28But that's actually the reality, isn't it?

00:32Correct.

00:33We use data that people have access to.

00:36Thanks for the answer to that.

00:37That is correct.

00:38And Senator Shoebridge has rightly raised that point.

00:41If I may, I'd like to correct one statement.

00:45Perhaps I gave the wrong impression.

00:46I want to be very clear that we are not using data from accounts of under 18-year-olds

00:53to train our models.

00:54So if I have a photo of my children on my account or other people's children, then

01:01you're not using, even though it's on my account, you're not using any of those photos?

01:06So we're not using photos that are posted by accounts of under 18-year-olds.

01:11We are using public photos posted by people over 18.

01:16So you're using photos of my children, which is the point?

01:19So I think what's really important to keep in mind here is that...

01:22I just want to ask another question and I'll hand it over to you.