Can you opt out of letting Meta’s AI chatbot use your data? It’s not so simple
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The Meta AI chatbot embedded in the company's platforms — Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp — can be used for searches and to answer questions.
Meta Platforms Inc. has long been using artificial intelligence to help it serve users content and ads it thinks are most likely to interest them, but its new chatbot has thrust the company’s use of the technology back into the spotlight.
The Meta AI chatbot embedded in the company’s platforms — Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp — can be used for searches and to answer questions. A promotional page shows you can ask it for recipes, to generate images or to put together lists of popular guitar songs to play.
But it’s also prompted some users to wonder how Meta’s AI systems use their data and what, if anything, they can do to opt out of the new feature.
Meta doesn’t list every source that trains its AI models, but its privacy centre says it makes use of information that is publicly available online or licensed.
It also says it uses information shared through its products and services, like posts, photos and their captions.
Meta’s privacy centre says the company does not use private messages exchanged between users for training its AI systems.
While Meta’s AI systems make use of public information collected from the internet or licensed from other providers, it does not link this data to accounts. For example, if it uses a public blog post featuring an author’s name and contact information, the company says it doesn’t later connect that content to the user’s Meta account.
The company also says it did not train its foundational models — Llama 2, Llama 3 — on user data.
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