Meta admits to using public Facebook, Instagram posts to train AI models during Parliamentary committee hearing.
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00:00The truth of the matter is that unless you consciously had set those posts to private
00:09since 2007, Meta has just decided that you will scrape all of the photos and all of the
00:17text from every public post on Instagram or Facebook that Australians have shared since
00:232007, unless there was a conscious decision to set them on private.
00:28But that's actually the reality, isn't it?
00:32Correct.
00:33We use data that people have access to.
00:36Thanks for the answer to that.
00:37That is correct.
00:38And Senator Shoebridge has rightly raised that point.
00:41If I may, I'd like to correct one statement.
00:45Perhaps I gave the wrong impression.
00:46I want to be very clear that we are not using data from accounts of under 18-year-olds
00:53to train our models.
00:54So if I have a photo of my children on my account or other people's children, then
01:01you're not using, even though it's on my account, you're not using any of those photos?
01:06So we're not using photos that are posted by accounts of under 18-year-olds.
01:11We are using public photos posted by people over 18.
01:16So you're using photos of my children, which is the point?
01:19So I think what's really important to keep in mind here is that...
01:22I just want to ask another question and I'll hand it over to you.