The showstopper at Connect 2023 was the unveiling of Meta's new AI assistant, set to join WhatsApp, Messenger, and Instagram in the coming days. But, the method used to train this assistant might not sit well with everyone.
According to, Meta used public Facebook and Instagram posts to train portions of its new Meta AI virtual assistant. In an interview, the company's top policy executive assured Reuters that they excluded private posts shared exclusively with family and friends to respect consumers' privacy.
Clegg's remarks come amidst criticism directed at tech companies, including Meta, OpenAI, and Google, for using internet-scraped information without proper authorization to train their AI models. These models ingest massive amounts of data to summarize information and generate imagery.
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