I hate that the headline is putting it as a foregone conclusion.
Instead of something along the lines of: Will the government allow this massive theft of intellectual property of average Australians?
Glad I got rid of these two a week or so ago. Man fb is a brain-eating amoeba
I am tired of my information making companies lots of money instead of me.(privacy issues aside) Shame you can’t copyright yourself at birth.
Well, nothing is free. If you aren’t paying with money, you are paying with data or time, which may or may not be more valuable to you than money.
Well, nothing is free.
False. Friendship, family, sunshine, peace, etc. Free for now at least.
Even paying for apps and services does not stop the collecting and selling of your data.
I know, but not paying to begin with created the incentive to have such an infrastructure to spy on people, even if these people decide to pay. And I am not saying it’s users’ fault.
The thing is, now that the game changed with machine learning techniques, there’s 0 incentive not to use it regardless of what previous deals existed in the past.
Everything you make is already copyrighted by default. Copyright is limited in what it let’s you do, however. AI training likely isn’t restricted by it.
Maybe patent yourself would work better…hmmm
That sounds messy. Do we need any primer, or patent thinner? How many brushes do we need?
Creepy as F.
Summary:
- Meta (Facebook and Instagram’s parent company) will start using Australians’ social media posts and activity dating back to 2007 to train their artificial intelligence (AI) tools.
- This policy update will take effect on June 26, 2024.
- Only users in the European Union and the U.S. state of Illinois can currently opt out, due to AI protection laws like the GDPR.
- Many Australians were unaware of this policy change and expressed concerns about privacy and the impact on artists’ livelihoods.
- Artists like Sara Fandrey and Thomas Fitzpatrick are worried this will negatively impact their work and the creative industry.
- Experts explain that while this may not be copyright infringement, it poses a threat to artists’ economic assets and business models.
- Advocacy groups have launched complaints against Meta in the EU, and some users are migrating to alternative, artist-run social platforms like Cara to avoid AI-powered content generation.
And they will probably use the energy equivalent to a small nation to do the training. LLMs are great.
Their data centers are 100% powered by renewable energy. Google is 100% carbon free. It’s not as bad as you think it is.
90% of the time they are “carbon free” through carbon offsets, which are generally a huge amount of bs.
the post is talking about Meta though
Their data centers are 100% powered by renewable energy
That surely won’t result in an alarming use rate of words like n****r and f****t. Hell, that’s the window of the hit YouTube video entitled “N****rF****t” starring… A member of the defuct comedy group (Derrick Comedy} that made the film, Donald Glover.
Bizarre how fast the changes we’ve seen have happened. The video was purposefully ‘edgy,’ but still.
To be honest I expected that was the case since the beginning.
Ah shit, that’s the year I joined.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
If you’re among the majority of Australians with Facebook or Instagram accounts, your social activity on those platforms is about to start training Meta’s artificial intelligence (AI) tools – and if you live in Australia, you can’t say no.
When that policy comes into effect, Meta will start taking user data from as far back as 2007 and use it to train and improve their AI tools.
Dr Joanne Gray, a lecturer in digital cultures at the University of Sydney, explains: "The precedent in the US suggests that these companies are doing it under fair use, a US exemption that allows you to do some copying and create something new.
Speaking of legal cases, advocacy group NOYB (none of your business) has launched 11 complaints against Meta in the EU in relation to this new policy.
They’ve now added a “Made by AI” label, requiring users to have all realistic appearing AI-generated content carry it.
Cara incorporates a project called Glaze, “a system designed to protect human artists by disrupting style mimicry in the training of generative AI models”.
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Classic lolz
“Feels a bit like an invasion of privacy” as opposed to what that you already do on these platforms???
