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Alex Blake

Oh great – now Facebook and Instagram want your private data to train Meta's latest AI pipe dream

Facebook Mark Zuckerberg.

Facebook owner Meta is not exactly known for keeping its hands off your private data, and over the years company chief Mark Zuckerberg has repeatedly found himself in hot water for his, shall we say, 'light-fingered' approach to user privacy. And now it looks like things could get a whole lot worse.

In a recent earnings call (via Bloomberg), Zuckerberg announced his company’s latest bright idea: grab the confidential data of billions of people and use it to train a new artificial intelligence (AI) model. Don’t expect to be able to opt out of this either.

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