Late last week, Meta acknowledged that it has employed an extensive volume of publicly accessible Facebook posts to educate its AI models, as reported by Reuters.

With the ongoing surge in AI advancement, content creators are increasingly questioning tech firms’ utilization of their material in the evolution of cutting-edge AI tools.

In the case of Facebook, these “content creators” encompass billions of individuals, Axios reported.

Following the recent unveiling of its new AI assistants, Meta’s President of Global Affairs, Nick Clegg, disclosed to Reuters that the “overwhelming majority” of the training data utilized in their development was sourced from publicly available posts, including those on Facebook and Instagram.

This revelation is setting the stage for a significant legal conflict between copyright holders of various content types, such as books and professional media products, and AI companies that may have knowingly or inadvertently incorporated their works in training their algorithms.

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