How to prevent Facebook from collecting your personal data for AI training.

Facebook users can currently delete some personal information that Meta might otherwise use for training artificial intelligence models.

According to this, Facebook users can access the Facebook Help Center and navigate to the “Data Subject Rights for AI Generated Content” section. Here, Facebook provides a form that allows users to submit requests related to information being used for training synthetic AI models. Specifically, this section offers three options: “I want to access, download, or edit any personal information from third parties used for AI generation,” and “I have a different issue.”

With the first option, users can download the personal data that has already been collected by “third parties” and review it. However, this data will still be used by Meta for AI training.

If users do not want their data to be used for AI training, they can select the option “I want to delete all third-party personal information used for AI generation.” Then, users fill out fields such as country, name, and email address and click submit. This form will be automatically processed by Facebook.

According to CNBC, Facebook’s move comes at a time when AI technology is making waves in the global tech industry, with companies creating advanced chatbots that can turn simple text into complex responses and images.

Similar to many other large tech companies, including Microsoft, OpenAI, and Google, Meta collects a significant amount of third-party data to train its AI models and related software.

“To effectively train AI models, a significant amount of information from licensed and publicly available sources is required,” Meta wrote in a post.

In a related blog post about using data for AI generation, Meta stated that they gather publicly available information from the web, in addition to using licensed data from other providers. For instance, the blog post might include personal information (such as someone’s name and contact information) that Meta could potentially collect. Users’ interactions and comments on Instagram and Facebook may also be used by Meta for AI training, according to CNBC.

However, a spokesperson for Meta stated that their latest open-source language model, Llama 2, “has not been trained on Meta user data, and we have not rolled out any AI generative features for users on our platform.”

Last week, a coalition of data protection authorities from the UK, Canada, Switzerland, and other countries issued a joint statement with Meta, Alphabet (the parent company of TikTok), X (formerly known as Twitter), Microsoft, and other companies regarding data collection and user privacy.

The letter serves as a reminder to technology and social media companies that they must still comply with various data protection and privacy laws worldwide.

The group stated in their statement: “Individuals can also take steps to protect their personal information from being collected, and social media companies play a role in enabling users to interact with their services in a privacy-protective manner.”

According to CNBC