{"id":173019,"date":"2023-09-29T02:22:26","date_gmt":"2023-09-29T07:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/metas-new-ai-assistant-trained-on-public-facebook-and-instagram-posts"},"modified":"2023-09-29T02:22:26","modified_gmt":"2023-09-29T07:22:26","slug":"metas-new-ai-assistant-trained-on-public-facebook-and-instagram-posts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/metas-new-ai-assistant-trained-on-public-facebook-and-instagram-posts","title":{"rendered":"Meta\u2019s new AI assistant trained on public Facebook and Instagram posts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/metas-new-ai-assistant-trained-on-public-facebook-and-instagram-posts2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>MENLO PARK, California, Sept 28 (Reuters) \u2014 Meta Platforms <a data-testid=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/markets\/companies\/META.O\" target=\"_blank\" referrerPolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" class=\"\">(META.O)<\/a> used public Facebook and Instagram posts to train parts of its new Meta AI virtual assistant, but excluded private posts shared only with family and friends in an effort to respect consumers\u2019 privacy, the company\u2019s top policy executive told Reuters in an interview.<\/p>\n<p>Meta also did not use private chats on its messaging services as training data for the model and took steps to filter private details from public datasets used for training, said Meta President of Global Affairs Nick Clegg, speaking on the sidelines of the company\u2019s annual Connect conference this week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve tried to exclude datasets that have a heavy preponderance of personal information,\u201d Clegg said, adding that the \u201cvast majority\u201d of the data used by Meta for training was publicly available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MENLO PARK, California, Sept 28 (Reuters) \u2014 Meta Platforms (META.O) used public Facebook and Instagram posts to train parts of its new Meta AI virtual assistant, but excluded private posts shared only with family and friends in an effort to respect consumers\u2019 privacy, the company\u2019s top policy executive told Reuters in an interview. Meta also [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-policy","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}