If you don't want Meta to use your data to feed its artificial intelligence, you have one month to stop it. All of the group's applications (Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, and Threads) will be able to feed AI models with your photos, comments, and public interactions with other Internet users... Here's how to stop it.
Meta: Attacking your public data
On Saturday, April 19, you may have received an email from Meta, with the header "Learn how we'll use your information as we improve Meta's AI." In this email, Mark Zuckerberg's company explains that your public information, such as your comments or posts, will be used to train their tools. Your private messages, sent via the group's social networks, are not currently affected. Those under 18 are also not affected, but experts believe that some of the content posted publicly by minors is not effectively filtered by AI.
Thanks to this almost infinite reserve of data, fed by millions (billions!) of users around the world, Meta will be able to improve the performance of its AI and design more relevant targeted advertising. And it's not just your current activity on Facebook and Instagram that will be exploited by Meta when this new privacy policy comes into effect, but also your entire history since Facebook launched in 2004. In essence, this means that political views or criticisms of your employer, and any other sensitive information published ten or fifteen years ago on your Facebook page could be exhumed by AI, or used to target you with advertising.
Meta: object to the use of your data
After recently shamelessly plowing through thousands of books without their authors' permission, particularly French fantasy writers, Meta continues to profit from the legal gray area surrounding AI to avoid worrying about intellectual property. Earlier this month, the company unveiled its new, highly advanced AI model, Llama 4, capable of "multi-document summarization, deep analysis of user activity for personalized tasks, and reasoning across large code bases." And surprise, the latter is even capable of imitating the spelling mistakes of real users! Meta has just announced the imminent use of your data to feed its generative AI, but the company seems to have already started doing so for some time without prior authorization...
To object, there's no time to waste: if you received the email we mentioned above, you will see that the body of the text mentions "You have the right to refuse the use of your information for these purposes". Here, you just have to click on the word "refuse", written in blue, and you will be redirected to a Facebook page "Object to the use of your information for Meta's AI". There, check that the email address entered is yours, write a comment if you wish in the box "Please explain to us how this processing affects you" then click on "Send".
If you have not received the email in question, here is the link that allows you to access the page:
https://www.facebook.com/help/contact/6359191084165019
Note, however, that the company specifies that:
We may continue to process information about you to develop and improve Meta's AI, even if you object or do not use our products. This could happen in the following cases:
-You or your information appears in an image shared publicly on our products by someone who uses them
-You or your information is publicly mentioned in posts or captions shared by a third party on our products
You have until May 27th to fill out this form, so don't delay!
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