Your Data Is Training Something: Defaults, Consent and the Opt-Out You Never Saw

by Young Professor — Privacy Compass — Issue 020

Medium·6d ago

Robin Williams’ Instagram account brought back to fight ‘AI abuse’

Robin Williams' children are taking over their father's Instagram account after his daughter spoke out against the use of his AI likeness, as reported earlier by The Wrap. In a post on Tuesday, Zak,...

The Verge AI·Aug 18

Twitch Faces Backlash Over Default Opt-In to AI Training Using Creator Content

AI Insider·Aug 13

Amazon will train on Twitch streamers’ content by default, unless they opt out

"If this was opt-in, nobody would opt in," Twitch CPO Mike Minton said on a livestream responding to user feedback. "That's honestly the answer."

TechCrunch AI·Aug 12

Meta's new AI image generator may use your Instagram photos. Here's how to opt out

NBC Bay Area·Jul 14

How To Limit Instagram From Using Your Data For AI And Ads

You can keep Instagram from using your activity outside the app to influence the ads you get.

Engadget on MSN·Aug 22

Social Media Platforms Are Training Their AI Models on Your Content, but You Can Stop Them (Sometimes)

If there's an option to opt out of having your social media data harvested for the AI behemoth, I've rounded up instructions to do so here.

Lifehacker·Aug 18

Twitch Feeds Your Streams to Amazon’s AI by Default, and Buries the Opt-Out

Martin Cid Magazine·Aug 13

Meta enters the AI coding wars with Muse Spark 1.2 and Muse Code with persistent async background agents

The default on-ramp for Muse Code sends developers' code and prompts into Meta's training pipeline — a tradeoff enterprises with proprietary codebases will need to consciously opt out of by moving to...

VentureBeat·Aug 7

Instagram Yanks Weird AI Tool, and For Good Reason

Movieguide·Jul 16

Meta Removes AI Image Feature After Instagram Privacy Backlash

MIT Sloan Management Review Middle East·Jul 14

Your Instagram photos can now be turned into AI images by strangers — unless you change this setting

It’s the latest example of a major tech company asking users to opt out of AI instead of opting in.

Moneywise on MSN·Aug 19

Mark Zuckerberg has an Instagzam

Instagram's wordmark is iconic. Well, was iconic. Apparently Instagram thought it looked old, so the company rolled out a new one this week. It doesn't look like the old Instagram wordmark. It...

The Verge AI·Aug 14

Twitch content has trained Amazon AI for years, but users can opt out now

Streaming platform says user-generated content "may be used for future Gen AI model improvements."

Ars Technica AI·Aug 12

Opt in or opt out? The debate over automatically enabled AI features

Controversial AI features like Meta's now-paused image generation tool for Instagram have left consumers wondering whether users should be given the choice to opt-in to AI features rather than having...

WWNO·Jul 22

Please Stop Making Me Opt Out of AI

I’m sick of “opt-out” toggles for automatically enabled generative AI features. It’s past time to make “opt in” the default setting for sensitive features.

Wired AI·Jul 16

Muse Image, Instagram’s new AI image generator, has been scrapped

RUSSH·Jul 13