How to opt out of Meta using your Instagram posts to make AI images

Mino Surkala/Shutterstock There are already plenty of reasons to stay the hell away from anything that Meta has its grubby little rat hooks on: Facebook surveils and monetizes everything you do while you’re online, and their shitty Meta AI glasses pick up the surveillance slack in meatspace, capturing every moment they’re on your face while robbing others of their privacy to boot. Meta’s been working on their in-house Large Language Model, cunningly named Meta AI, for some time now. To help it grow in capability, it’s fed a blend of stolen publicly available information found online, bits and pieces of information that Zuckerberg bothered to license, and a constant flow of information gleaned from Facebook, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, and Instagram users. It’s the crap price some folks are willing to pay for using Meta’s supposedly free services. However, according to Wired, the cost of using Meta to post your life online just went up. In addition to using your data to teach its AI to be more human than the company’s founder, Meta now also allows anyone to use your Instagram photographs as a base for AI-generated artwork. Earlier this week, Meta rolled out the new iteration of their Muse
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