Meta has begun training its artificial intelligence (AI) technology using public posts from Facebook and Instagram users living in the UK. This is being informed through notification to the users. However, users are outraged as their public posts are being used for AI training.

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Along with the app notification, the same message is also sent to users' e-mails. It says that users' public posts, comments, photos and photo captions are being used to create human-like generative AI. By training the AI ​​using Facebook and Instagram posts, images, comments and captions from users living in the UK, the model will understand UK culture, language and geography.

Although Meta informed the users about the issue, they expressed concern about the privacy and protection of personal information. Even if a user can stop the use of his data, even though there is an opportunity, such a step of Meta is not well received by the common users.

Over the past few days on social media, users have had their say. Meta, however, says that the control over whether or not the information will be used rests with users, as well as how the information will be used. Open data will be used for those over 18 years of age.

Former UK Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg said the AI ​​will be trained using data from Facebook and Instagram users over the age of 18 in the UK and Brazil. Analysts, however, say that only the data of users in Brazil and the UK will be used, which is not the full truth. This is because Meta also exposes information about users in other countries, but due to weak legal and regulatory bodies in those countries, it is not made public or followed by any process.
Earlier, Meta said it had positive discussions with UK data protection regulator The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) about using data from UK Facebook and Instagram users to train their artificial intelligence (AI) models.