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Firms/Platforms that sell “your” data for AI

Here’s a quick list of the companies/platforms that have either confirmed or is well known to sell “your data” for AI reasons. Meta – Facebook, Instagram opt-out only for UK and EU customers Google –… 

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Instagram and trying to opt-out of AI training

I had hoped that despite my fears that meta would make it next to impossible to opt-out of Ai training shenanigans this article comes along and confirms how difficult they made it and how only… 

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I got my Meta opt-out granted

Today I had the email from Meta about my data being used to train AI. I’m in the UK and I straight away clicked on the link, filled out the opt-out form explaining how I… 

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Instagram getting AI notice now

Following on from the Facebook AI notices I am starting to see that Instagram is getting them now. I can only think that Threads will get them soon as well, with all the ramifications that… 

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AI hyped but not used?

Amongst my peers, and I’m old now (55) AI isn’t popular at all, and nearly everyone I talk to around my age hates it. So it is good to see a study basically saying the… 

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Google AI search in hilarious fails!

Well it had to happen and the following article explains more, but saying to eat a rock a day is farcical! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd11gzejgz4o

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Removing google AI results

After the news that google is basically going all AI with its search there have been a few articles available saying how you can go back to the old way by appending a term after… 

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The AI backlash is beginning….

I am starting to see increased hostility against the AI crusade right now. Many people aren’t bothered but that has shown up as the massive drop in engagement and posts on social media in 2024… 

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Update Meta/Facebook AI

I received the message from Facebook/Meta relating to AI late last night and I decided to give it a post of it’s own rather than update the previous post regarding this. A couple of things… 

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Facebook increases use of AI

I’m hearing multiple reports that soon Facebook/Meta will start using ANYTHING you post to Facebook including links to things like Youtube to train their AI systems. The real issue here is that this is opt-out…