Publications, photos, comments: WhatsApp is the only social network that will not be used to train Generative AI models. Learn how to prevent the goal of using your data.
Under the General Regulation on Data Protection (RGPD) of the European Union, users have the right to formally oppose this use of their data and those who wish to oppose their use to train the Generative Artificial Intelligence models have Until May 27 To do it through a form, advances.
The mother company of social networks announced earlier this week that all public content in its platforms, except for the WhatsApp private messaging service, would henceforth used to train their AI models unless people oppose.
For that, a Notification will inform users Europeans of this new policy and will provide them with a connection to a self-execution form by May 27 and can always be completed after the date.
The information concerned is, in particular, publications, photographs and their subtitles, comments published under them, as well as requests and questions Submitted through Messenger to Meta AI, the conservation robot available since the end of March in the European Union (EU).
How to reject the goal request
Users can go to the settings of your Instagram account or Facebook, access the privacy center and follow the indications in the “AI in the Goal” section to send an objection form. Here’s the steps on Instagram:
1. Access the definitions in the profile, in the upper right corner, in the three bars.
2. Go below the “Privacy Center” and, in the “Privacy Topics” section, to access the “Ia na Goal”.
3. Arriving here, the user can see what has already shared with the goal, clicking “information that you shared in the products of the goal”.
4. Voilà: The objection form is already ahead of you, already with the email associated with the account. Just click send.
On Facebook, the form can be found.
Also according to the French news agency, the company also specifies that this objection will also be applied to all accounts linked to the one used to send the form. However, it warns that it may continue to treat information about users who have expressed their refusal in certain situations, namely when their information appears in a publicly shared image or is mentioned by another user.
This change should not affect accounts under 18, nor the private messages of adult users.
