I heard Meta were planning to change their EULA/Terms of use and planned to opt out in anyway possible. But I was nicely surprised to see not only the EU but UK can opt out using the short form above. Although I think it is cheeky to require a reason…
I assumed the EU would be covered but the UK would be left out. Thank goodness for GDPR
You can learn a lot more by reading this how to guide or watching this video.
Update just 55mins later
I got this email from Facebook/Meda
Hi Ian,
We’ve reviewed your request and will honor your objection. This means your request will be applied going forward.
If you want to learn more about generative AI, and our privacy work in this new space, please review the information we have in Privacy Center.
facebook.com/privacy/genai
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@cubicgarden Wouldn’t being in the UK and Europe place me in Northern Ireland?
@woo
Whoops yes true 😂
@cubicgarden The reply I got: “We are unable to identify any examples of your personal information in a response from one of Meta’s generative AI models. As a result, we cannot take further action.”
Which is not a response to “do not use my information to train your models”.
@cubicgarden I’m getting this from the form link …
@Stubbs Ah yes, you made the right choice to leave FB a long time ago I see 🙂
@mattwilcox Demand it, its your rights. Don’t ask just demand it. Feel free to copy mine
https://cubicgarden.com/2024/06/25/in-the-eu-and-uk-opt-out-of-meta-using-data-to-train-ai/
In the EU and UK? Opt out of Meta using data to train AI
@cubicgarden I’ll try again, because that’s close to what I wrote, and got a different answer.
@mattwilcox
Do document what happens because it’s not right and maybe worthy of a mass court case if enough people face the same.
There reason is rubbish and not legal from my non legal uninformed view 😅
@cubicgarden @tdp_org so they want people to give them data, so you get to “opt-out”, while retaining the data you just gave them?
At which point another Corporation, where you did not opt-out, can just go around and do whatever you want as you did not opt-out.
That model does not scale. It they want to process your data they need to ask for permission, not for forgiveness….