Comment by hbn
1 year ago
I'll play some defence for them here. You were playing with Meta's AI face tool, and now it's taken some results from that and swapped them in where ads would usually go. I'm assuming they don't do this if you just uploaded photos to Facebook/Instagram, you seemingly gave them a picture with the direct intent of them using it to make AI images.
It doesn't seem that much different from when I'm typing a chat reply in Snapchat and it starts automatically suggesting stickers with mine and my friends' faces doing silly things with cartoon bodies. Or using my avatar to try and upsell me to their premium subscription. Don't give them a picture of your face to mess around with if you don't like them messing around using a picture of your face.
I instantly revoked Facebook's access to my photos a few years back, when it had taken photos from my camera roll and put it into my feed with a "do you want to share this"? I was browsing on the subway, and did not expect a medical picture of me showing up for everyone there to see. And I realized facebook as well could do what they wanted with my pictures.
I suspect the eventual goal is to get citizens to train their own AI avatars, and then those avatars will be used to market to the citizens, to do market research, product research, manipulate politicians, etc. Will you click through letting them do what they want with an AI simulation of you? It starts with a photo. The "next big thing" is agents they say, a personal AI that you train to do things for you. And which incidentally builds an AI simulation of you, the ultimate training data for large models. You are the (AI training) product.
> Don't give them a picture of your face to mess around with if you don't like them messing around using a picture of your face.
OK. In fact, I'll do better than that. I won't interact with any of their products or services in any way, including blocking all their domains several times over in various browser extensions.
Snapchat, too.
Actually I used my time machine to implement it already.
How much surreal harassment will you people put up with?
Apparently, a whole lot more.
I recently had someone stunned (actually, truly stunned) that I didn’t have Instagram.
I spent 5 minutes looking at it years ago, and deleted it - and have never regretted that decision.
Notably, I’m also unsurprisingly no fun at parties.