ergative ,
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Hey, UK-based users of instagram, they're going to start using your data to train AI models.

You have the 'right to object', however: https://help.instagram.com/contact/233964459562201

They say 'if your objection is honoured it will be applied going forward,' which sounds like some bullshit thing where they decide not to honour it, but when I submitted I got an immediate automated confirmation that they'd honour it, so if you want to keep using instagram, make sure to click the link and tell Meta to kick rocks.

jorgecandeias ,
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@ergative Same goes for facebook.

Jorah ,
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@ergative I wonder if the 'going forward' thing means they're making free with everything you've posted in the past.

ergative OP ,
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@Jorah The thing is, I actually wrote in the text of my request, 'Hey, I didn't consent to this or know it was an option in the past, so don't use any of my old stuff', so if they truly do honour it, then they won't.

Now I'm just putting all my new stuff through Glaze.

I also submitted a new objection just now, saying 'don't use ANY of my stuff,' so we'll see if that gets automatically approved or not.

(I bet they're using some AI thing to do the approvals anyway. Christ, the irony.)

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