Comment on Oh great – now Facebook and Instagram want your private data to train Meta's latest AI pipe dream

guyinachair@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Death_Equity@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They don’t understand what being the product means because they don’t understand why their data being sold off is a problem because they don’t understand why their data is valuable.

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• teft@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  He says, on a free service.

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  • guyinachair@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I understand the irony 😅

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  • demonsword@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    He says, on a free service.

    I make a monthly donation to the folks running mastodon.world (they also run lemmy.world). Yeah it’s free but you can and should contribute sometimes to keep it that way.

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    • robotica@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      There’s something funny about the phrase “paying for stuff so that it stays free”

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  • LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Open source doesn’t really count, especially with Lemmy where you just can host it yourself and there’s no way for anyone to harvest your data really

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• FaceDeer@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This relies on a zero-sum view of the world, which is unfortunately common but isn't necessarily so.

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• gedaliyah@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s already in all the service agreements that you click on when you sign up. They’ve already been harvesting data. They already have the right to use your posts and pictures for whatever they want

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