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Your Instagram posts are feeding Meta's AI; what does it all mean?

Your Instagram posts are feeding Meta's AI; what does it all mean?

With Ciara O'Brien

In The News · [email protected]

April 17, 202521m 51s

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Your 2007 Facebook posts, videos of your children or maybe your voice on Instagram stories. Everything you have ever publicly posted on Facebook and Instagram will now be used to train Meta's artificial intelligence model, Llama. Notifications will start appearing in your social media feed asking whether you want to opt out of the practice which was paused last year on foot of a request from the Data Protection Commissioner. Meta says its AI will improve the service it provides its EU users but campaigners have concerns around privacy and bias. Meanwhile, a group of Irish authors have launched legal action against the company over allegations that pirated versions of their work were used to train Llama. Irish Times business and technology journalist Ciara O'Brien explain it means for your historical uploads and how you can choose to opt out.


Presented by Bernice Harrison. Produced by Aideen Finnegan.


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