How your content could soon feed Meta’s AI machine
The Take
Al Jazeera
4.7 • 748 Ratings
🗓️ 19 June 2024
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Meta’s controversial plan to train AI on social media posts is now paused in Europe following a public backlash. Some users are complaining that what they put on Facebook and other social media is being used without their permission - and asking why it is so hard to opt-out.
In this episode:
- Luca Bertuzzi (@BertuzLuca), Senior AI Correspondent at MLex
Episode credits:
This episode was produced by Sarí el-Khalili, Tamara Khandaker and Sonia Bhagat, with Chloe K. Li, Khaled Soltan, Mohammed Zain Shafi Khan, and our host Natasha Del Toro.
Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Our lead of audience development and engagement is Aya Elmileik and Adam Abou-Gad is our engagement producer.
Alexandra Locke is The Take’s executive producer. Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera's head of audio.
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| 0:00.0 | Al Jazeera Podcasts. |
| 0:07.0 | Today, your posts on Facebook and Instagram will soon be food for AI. |
| 0:17.2 | They wanted to train their artificial intelligence, and if you don't agree, well, then too bad. |
| 0:21.8 | You can't say no. |
| 0:24.0 | Should you be concerned? |
| 0:27.6 | I'm Natasha Deltwarro, and this is The Take. |
| 0:37.1 | Mehta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, threads, and WhatsApp, has been busy recently in proving its artificial intelligence products. |
| 0:45.3 | On June 26, Meta will take its Facebook and Instagram users' data from as far back as 2007 and feed it into their hungry AI learning machine |
| 0:55.0 | to better train it to power chatbots and image generators. |
| 0:59.3 | Meta will be updating their privacy policy |
| 1:01.3 | to allow their AI systems to use personal content posted by users. |
| 1:05.9 | And this plan has created controversy around the world. |
| 1:09.5 | Regulators in Europe have asked META to suspend it. |
| 1:15.4 | Breaking it all down for me is Luca Bertuzi. |
| 1:19.1 | I'm a senior AI correspondent at Emlex. |
| 1:22.5 | I've been working on digital policy and AI policy for the past three years. |
| 1:28.6 | We're so excited to talk with you about this today. |
| 1:32.5 | So, Luca, what does this mean? |
| 1:35.0 | So what we are seeing is that the AI market has seen a huge hype ever since the public |
| 1:42.7 | release of chat GPT. And now basically investors, users, they're |
| 1:48.2 | all out for AI. |
| 1:49.8 | And we see that companies that include AI in their business plans are getting rewarded by |
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