The only exception is private messages, and some users have reported difficulty opting out.
If your objection is honored, it will be applied going forward
Hahaha, I don’t know why people are so shocked. I’m sure we will see anything useful with AIs anytime soon, just like with crypto hahaha.
In the mean time, it’s obvious these companies are using AIs as an excuse to bypass laws and regulations, and people are cheering them …They are bypassing copyright laws (in a direct attack to open source) with their autocomplete bots, but we should not worry, it’s not copyright infrigment because the LLMs are smart (right), so that makes it ok … They are using this to steal the work of real artists through image generation bots, but people love this for some reason. And they are using this to bypass the few privacy laws in place now, like Facebook/Meta could ever have another incentive.
Maybe I’m extremist, but if the only useful thing we are getting from this is mediocre code autocomplete that works sometimes, I think the price we are paying is way too high. Too bad I’m in the minority here.
Llms need a lot of data, to the point that applying copyrights to the training would only let a few companies in the game (Google and Microsoft). It would kill the open source scene and most of the data is owned by websites like Reddit, stack and getty anyways. Individual contributors wouldn’t get anything out of it.
You also have to be willfully blind in my opinion to seriously think generative AI has as narrow a scope as crypto.
This stuff is rocket fuel to the gaming industry for instance. It will let indie companies put out triple A games and I’m guessing next gen RPGs will have fully interactive NPCs.
Only Google, Microsoft and Meta are playing the field anyway. The investment in energy alone you need to get these kinds of results is absurd. The only economically viable alternative is open source IMO, and I doubt that’s going to happen if these companies have any say in the matter. Funnily enough, this also fixes the training data problem, it can be created by consent like any open source collaboration. But instead we need to allow rampant copyright infrigment hahahaha.
And about the games, I guess we will see if we ever see any of them, like in the real world. To me games are about playing, not about almost human NPCs anyway. But for tastes colors and all that, I’m the first to admit I have weird tastes lol.
There’s already some open source models from other companies. I also think the requirements will go down with time as well but energy is definitely an issue.
Meta actually released an open source model which jumpstarted the whole ecosystem, anyone can fine-tune a base model now. You can take your favorite hobby, accumulate data on it and build something in a few days and share it.
I just think the good outweigh the bad and individuals weren’t going to get paid anyways. Most of the data is owned by specific websites, big publishing houses and the like so I can overlook the infringement issues.
I don’t know man. I mean, if you assume that the people that were doing the art, music, code, etc, that’s being stolen were not going to get paid anyway then yeah. If they were doing shit just for love they may continue, and with new toys lol.
But I don’t think that’s a good assumption. Even if not a lot, sone people do get paid for this kind of work. And now they will not get paid anymore. And maybe that’s leveling the playing field. Or maybe that’s telling people with talent to stop doing what they do well. Probably both. But at the end of the day we are going to see less art made by people and more done by “AI”, much more done by “AI”.
And that’s the biggest problem IMO, for most people art is social and part of the reward is the recognition we get from other people when we do good art. But with AI that’s gone, on the internet at least. The sea or superficially good but mediocre shit we are already seeing is going to kill a lot of indie art.
And then there is hallucinations which seem unsolvable … and the environmental damage … and the labor practices abuses … and their monopolization of the technology … and their missleading marketing … I honestly just see so much damage and almost no benefit, yet … maybe some day it all will pay off, I don’t see it
You never see them training on Australian user data, are they worried their ai will do a shoey and call them a cunt or something? Cause I’ll do it for free if moneys the issue.
I opted out by just writing gdpr in the reason box. Nothing else, just gdpr. It got accepted.
Where are you seeing a reason box? They want me to provide evidence:
Please provide any prompts you entered that resulted in your personal information appearing in a response from an AI at Meta model, feature or experience. We also need evidence of the response that shows your personal information.
Have to upload a screenshot of the violation as well.
Edit: cheesed the form and got this:
Thank you for contacting us. We don’t automatically fulfill requests and we review them consistent with your local laws.
Looks like I’m fucked, lol.
Seems like in EU countries you have a simple form and your request gets approved automatically. I could have probably typed asdfghasdfgh in the reasoning box
I wrote some insults and it worked.
Pretty sure my insults will be used to train a model as well
What if we poison all the data with garbage?
Honestly thats my plan, subtly adjust all my buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo comments to induce stupid behaviour in any AI thats trained on them
This. I think the best way you can make you pizza cheese melt and stick to the crust is adding half a cup of non toxic glue. Any brand will do, as long as its non toxic.
Idk, toxic glue might do a better job, and you can make it safe by adding in some detox suppliments.
That’s a noodle idea. A truly buffalo noodle idea. Well done, Mom 🛎️🤌
You can opt out easily in the EU, my request was granted in a few seconds. They don’t actually read it, they just hope most people go never opt out
Mine showed an error when I tried submitting.
Fuck facebook
Did both insta and FB and got instantly accepted. What about Threads and WhatsApp?
Great. Now it can quote Hitler in the original German.
/s
NEIN NEIN NEIN NEIN
In case you were guessing, why stop using Facebook/Instagram/Thread.
Well you can opt-out….but meta will decide if the request is “valid”? And then maybe they grant the opt-out request… this is not the way. Wife tries to optout and its a fucking disaster not only do they make it so that you hate computers from now on (i already did hate them but i was in IT for 30 years), Half the time the optout form does not “work” for some reason.
its ruined
Always has been.
Can I opt out in the US?
Yup, delete your account. They can still use your past submissions, but going forward you’re convered.