Need a place to shout into the void about AI? There's a new form for you to fill out. Meta, the maker of Facebook and Instagram, introduced a new form that lets you ask, pretty please, for the company not to use your data to train its AI models. Sort of.
. But if you’re truly concerned about your data being swept up to train artificial intelligence, there are a lot of reasons to think this new Facebook form might be a waste of your time.
As Facebook explains, models like the ones Meta is building analyze pieces of data from a variety of sources. Some of that data comes from the things you type into Meta itself on Facebook, Instagram, and other apps. This form won’t help you with that. Did you think that was your data? There’s other ways to deleteof the data you’ve handed Meta, but there’s no way to object to the company using it for AI.
When you put your name and your email into this form, it’s hard to know what Meta does next. Presumably, the company has some kind of automated search that looks through the training data for its generative AI models to find exact matches for your name and email. Even if we assume Meta makes a rigorous effort in its search, it’s ridiculous to think that the only data that might refer to you will include your full name or email address.
That’s probably why the form asks you to give your country of residence. It seems that Meta is granting some people limited rights to intercept their data based on where they live. In some places, the company has a regulatory obligation to do so. “Data Subject Rights” is a standard legal term for the rights that you have, as the subject of data collection, to delete, access, or alter that information under certain local laws.
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