I think it’s also relevant that when I was growing up, people regularly changed between public and private depending on life circumstances, friend groups, etc. It was billed as a way to switch between people seeing your posts or not, NOT as a way to revoke or grant Facebook or any other entity any specific permission. It served a social function, and at a time when AI did not exist. They changed the meaning of that on us years after the fact and I have not seen any article address that. No teenager in 2011 was thinking of the private/public setting as consent for ai use, and none of these articles talk about pictures that were set to private after being public for a while. It’s bad faith
BarryZuckerkorn@beehaw.org 1 week ago
Isn’t the opt-out option to just not make the photos/posts globally public?
PotentiallyApricots@beehaw.org 5 days ago
Deceptichum@quokk.au 1 week ago
? They own the data. They don’t need it to be public to access it.
BarryZuckerkorn@beehaw.org 1 week ago
Yes but they only performed the training on the posts and images set to be globally publicly accessible by anyone. In a sense, they took the public permissions as an indicator that they could use that data for more than just providing the bare social media service.