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Your photos and words trained Meta's AI.

“We’ve tried to exclude datasets that have a heavy preponderance of personal information,” Clegg tells the publication, adding that the “vast majority” of data Meta used for training was publicly available as the company wanted to respect privacy concerns. That stipulation does seem to indicate that some of it wasn’t publicly available, although the executive did not elaborate.

The use of public information to train AI has been a hot topic of discussion for some time now. Clegg touched on it as well, saying that he expects “a fair amount of litigation” to determine whether using copyrighted materials to train an AI is protected by Fair Use.

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