11 steps to keep Meta from stealing your data to train AI

You only have until June 26, 2024 to say no to Meta taking your personal photos and words and using them to train their generative AI. Here are step-by-step directions for opting out.

Jun 18, 2024

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Cross-post from Ladyparts

Hey folkes -- I normally don't restack stuff, but this is the last day to opt out of Meta's AI training with your data, and the process to do that is long and unnecessarily complicated. This post gives you all the steps you need. Most of you know I mostly-left Facebook for this kind of heinous fuckery, so I felt this was important enough to share. If you're in the US, with our rather dubious data protection regulations, it may or may not be completely effective, but it's still worth doing -- if for no other reason than overwhelming them with removal requests so they can see a significant portion of us don't want stuff we've freely shared with friends to be used to teach an AI how to steal more from us. May the odds be ever in our favor. -

Yes, normally this publication is all about women’s health, books, personal stories, and other stuff I find fascinating, but given the urgency of the deadline of Meta’s data grab on June 26, 2024, and my own frustrations with trying to find the proper way to opt-out of this IP theft, I’m providing today’s missive as a gift to all, to keep you from the h…

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