"Share this with five friends before midnight or you may die" is a sentence that runs down the spine of many an ex-MySpace user. Not because they narrowly avoided death but because of the cringey feeling of believing that would ever work. Seemingly to counter Meta training its AI model on public posts, many are falling for chain mail once more.
A new post going around Facebook and Instagram that starts with "Goodbye Meta AI" claims that those who post this and the message that follows are essentially opting out of Meta using their data to train its AI model (via BBC). This is, of course, untrue, and speaking to the BBC, a Meta spokesperson said "Sharing this story does not count as a valid form of objection".
