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Facebook: The Unsuspecting Vessel of Data Dranght [explicit video icon]
Prepare yourself for an unsettling reality check: odds are your entire digital autobiography is fueling Meta’s AI Frankenstein. By now, the tech conglomerate’s addiction to consumer data shouldn’t come as a surprise – but newly revealed admissions paint a horrifying picture. Even if your posts weren’t public (or at least, explicitly public), Big Brother could still have eyes on it.
An exposé within an inquiry featuring Australian policymakers has dragged up a frightening truth. Here’s Senator David Shoebridge’s words, delivered like a chill-inducing whispered secret, “Meta is harvesting images and text from every – and I stress, every – public post, unless intentionally designated private by the original poster.” For those few unaware, Instagram and Facebook data scraping’s been occurring unabatedly since 2007; the platform won’t intervene unless forced, like clockwork collecting everything, everything, it doesn’t concern you one little bit because you posted about your Sunday brunch for years and—oops—the machine learned exactly how and why you clicked that photo…
And did you actually consent? Are you merely unaware, passive, unwitting complicit enablers as AI develops its all-pervading, eerie cognitive prowess powered by those cringeworthy, curation-fatal, carefully framed #aesthetic photographs. Did #aesthetichumans think your carefully orchestrated, ever-watchful likes and the world would cease to see – your everything? Do our most authentic, honest feelings of embarrassment, insecurity and despair even concern the soul-crushing tech overlords siphoning our identities?!
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