Grumpy old geeks a weekly talk show hosted by Brian Schulmeister and Jason

de Philippo discussing with finer points of what went wrong on the internet and

who's to blame.

Welcome to Grumpy old geeks, I'm Jason De Philipo. And I'm Brian Schillmeister.

Well, we got a bit of follow-up, Jason.

I remember about two weeks ago or so, there was that esteemed journalist who wrote this step-by-step article

about how to tell Meta that you should not allow them to use your data for training their AI and

machine learning algorithms.

Yeah.

Both went through it.

No, no, no, you went through it.

Oh, I went through it.

And many other people went through it and guess what? It did not work.

Really? Well, here's the nothing email I got and you tell me.

Okay. Hi, thank you for contacting us.

Based on the information that you have provided to us, we are unable to identify any examples of your personal information in a response from what a meta's generative AI models.

As a result, we cannot take further action on your request. If you want to go look at our privacy thing that also says nothing about blah blah blah. Thank you for your inquiry, privacy operations.

Now, I didn't say remove something that I have found that you have used. I said,

do not ever use my information ever to train your model.

Okay. This is just saying, we didn't see anything.

Okay.

So we can't take any further action because we don't see that we've ever used it for anything.

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