Meta uses your Facebook data to train its AI. Here’s how to oppose it (well almost)

The video tab, previously known as Facebook Watch, now centralizes all videos on Facebook, including real, long or live content. This tab will seem familiar to you. Indeed, you can have a personalized wire vertically scroll that recommends all types of video content. It will also include new sections of horizontal scrolling reels highlighting the recommended reels, so that you can quickly access short videos. You will see the video tab appear in the shortcut bar. On iOS, this bar is at the bottom of the application, and on Android, it is at the top. The tabs in the shortcut bar changed according to the sections of the application you use the most.

New for videos on Facebook

Videos are an integral part of Facebook: in 2007, Internet users were able to start publishing short videos in their threads. Today, our unique combination of reels, long videos and live videos attracts Internet users on Facebook to watch videos on topics that interest them, discover new things and interact with other people sharing the same centers ‘interest.

We continue to invest massively in videos, which is why we present our latest news today to allow Internet users to create, explore and watch videos on Facebook.

Simplify video editing

We have started to deploy updates that integrate more features for reals and mounting tools over the course, facilitating the creation of dynamic videos on Facebook on Facebook. Whether it is a question of publishing a video for his loved ones or interacting with Internet users sharing the same interests, our video assembly tools will allow you to express themselves in a new way through real or long videos.

• A simplified creation : We have recently gathered audio, music and text in a unified mounting screen for Reels, now available for wire videos on Facebook. It is thus easier to superimpose and synchronize the different creative elements to create the perfect video. For reels, this feature is also available in Meta Business Suite.
• Better montage of clips : delete or add different clips, and accelerate or reversed sequences.
• An improved audio : Superimpose the sound effects you want to include in your videos by adding music or audio clips, a voiceover or by reducing noise.

Centralize videos on Facebook

We also simplify exploration and interaction with the best videos on Facebook, whether they are popular real, long videos made by the best creators, or live content.

The video tab, previously known as Facebook Watch, now centralizes all videos on Facebook, including real, long or live content. This tab will seem familiar to you. Indeed, you can have a personalized wire vertically scroll that recommends all types of video content. It will also include new sections of horizontal scrolling reels highlighting the recommended reels, so that you can quickly access short videos. You will see the video tab appear in the shortcut bar. On iOS, this bar is at the bottom of the application, and on Android, it is at the top. The tabs in the shortcut bar changed according to the sections of the application you use the most.

Discover the most popular videos on Facebook

We have reworked the videos in Explorer to help you discover the most popular videos. To access explore, press the search icon in the video tab. You will find there several reels, long videos and live videos in connection with subjects and relevant hashtags. We bet both manual data collection and machine learning to select popular subjects and videos, and thus highlight the content that may please you.

Interact with Instagram reels on Facebook

The possibility of watching Instagram reels on Facebook has enabled many creators and many creators on Instagram to reach a greater number of Internet users, even for those who do not have an active active profile. It also allows you to enjoy the best of Instagram and Facebook reels in one place.

From now on, on Facebook, you can consult and write comments on Instagram reels that have been recommended on Facebook, without needing to go from one application to another. To get started, you can add your Facebook and Instagram accounts to the accounts . You will be able to even more easily exchange with your loved ones and interact with the content you appreciate, whatever the application you use.

And that’s just the beginning. From the latest tools for creators in order to allow them to express themselves, create an audience and earn money from the discovery and personalization features that give you more control over your experience, we are committed to continuing Improve the video experience on Facebook.

Meta uses your Facebook data to train its AI. Here’s how to oppose it (well almost)

Technology: Meta will use your personal data in its large Llama 2 linguistic model. But you can refine the data to which he has access.

By Steven Vaughan-Nichols | Thursday August 31, 2023

Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, has won billions of dollars by collecting, sharing and using your personal data. And it continues. Meta uses your data to create her large language model (LLM), Llama 2.

Yes, your data is the ore from which the metal will be forged from the next Facebook IA chatbot. It doesn’t enchant you ? You can make sure that at least part of your data does not eat the Facebook AI engine.

First of all, understand that Meta will only use information accessible to the public “as well as information from its products and services” – Facebook, Threads and Instagram – to train its generative services. The only way to avoid completely this is to delete your Facebook and Associate accounts. And 90 days later, this is the duration during which Meta keeps your data, your data will no longer be accessible.

To change the way Meta uses your data, two options are now possible

Note however that even if you have never used Facebook, Meta almost certainly knows things about you. Indeed, many other websites use Meta data, social media plugins or other Meta advertising software. These sources alone suffice to collect information about you.

To modify the way Meta uses your data, two options are now possible.

First of all, for some time, you can use OFA tools (off-facebook Activity) to see a large part, but not all, of what Facebook and your friends know about you.

Even when you are not on Facebook, Meta follows you on track. Screenshot by Steven Vaughan-Nichols/ZDNET

In addition to your name and the fact that you liked the photo of your uncle’s cat, you will discover that Facebook knows when you have.

• Open an application
• Summer connected to an application with Facebook
• Content
• Wanted an article
• Added an article to a basket
• Make a purchase
• Make a donation
• Visited a website

OOF tools allow you to manage your activity outside Facebook.

First of all, go to the Excluding Facebook activity page. To access this page, you may need to enter your Facebook password. It’s normal. You will find all the sites and services with which Facebook shares data and vice versa.

To find out exactly what each of them does in general, click on those who interest you. As you probably have hundreds, I doubt that you want to review them all.

Disable future activities

In pages Manage your activities outside Facebook, downwards, you can “deactivate future activities”. This does not prevent Facebook or the company from obtaining your data; It simply breaks, in theory, the link between your Facebook identity and your data.

Clear history

You can also simply “delete the history”. You will find this option on the Manage your activity out of Facebook. It will disconnect your account from all the sites and services that currently follow you. Again, that does not erase anything. It simply breaks the link between your account and the partners of Facebook. In this case, you may also be disconnected from all the sites to which you log in using a Facebook identifier. However, Facebook and its partners will continue to receive your activities when you visit their sites and services.

Break the cord with AI data

This will also eliminate some of the data used by Meta as part of its AI programs. To find out more about improving your privacy in terms of AI, you must go to the new AI Data Subject Rights.

Meta does not promise to do anything, but you can always ask

You can “submit requests relating to the use of your information for the training of generative AI models”. Meta does not promise to do anything, but you can ask for the following:

This request will generate an email to Meta customer service. In due time, Meta will answer you. The answer you get will depend on your place of residence. Today, EU citizens are much more likely to obtain their information and to modify it than, for example, a citizen of Canada, the United States or Mexico. This is explained by the fact that the EU has much more strict privacy than anywhere in the world.

The other request is much simpler:

With this option, all your OFA data should be deleted.

Even after all this, Meta will always have access to all the data you have entered in Facebook, Instagram and Threads. But at least you will have preserved some of your personal data from Meta AI. It’s better than nothing.

The new keyword research is deployed for the mobile and web versions of Threads.

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By Steven Vaughan-Nichols | Thursday August 31, 2023

Meta: Soon a subscription without advertising for Facebook and Instagram ?

In response to the DSA of the European Union, Meta could monetize, via a paying subscription, the lack of advertising on Facebook and Instagram.

Matthieu Eugène / Published on September 4, 2023 at 10:56 am

Meta is thinking of versions without advertising, but paid, of Facebook and Instagram

Meta thinks of the implementation of a paid subscription on Facebook and Instagram, which would have the effect of offering users of the European Union to advertisement without advertising of the famous social networks of the group. According to information from the New York Times, Meta would nevertheless continue to offer free versions of its applications, with advertising, thus not betraying Mark Zuckerberg, which has always hammered that there would always be a free Facebook version.

Those who will pay this Facebook and Instagram subscription will not see advertising in applications, said an anonymous source from Meta to NYT.

For a few weeks, Meta has already been offering a paying subscription with the Verified offer, which allows creators to certify their account. This formula, at prices of € 13.99 per month on Desktop and € 16.99 per month on mobile, ultimately accepted by users, was able to open the door to Meta’s ambitions as to the sale of paid subscriptions. Difficult, however to estimate the price of this future subscription. Some American media evoke prices between 6 and 8 dollars monthly.

A financial response from Meta to the DSA of the European Union ?

But this subscription for applications without advertising, reflecting for European users, is also a response from META to DSA, the new EU regulation which notably hoves targeted advertising. The group has already announced that it would provide an option allowing European users to disengage from the personalized content offered by algorithms. This new formula without advertising “Could help Meta respond to concerns about confidentiality, and other controls of European regulators, by offering users an alternative to advertising -based company services, which are based on the analysis of personal data”, Writes the Ny Times.

The Californian group is regularly sentenced to fines for non-compliance with the GDPR and regulations related to personal data processing. In May, Meta was a fine of 1.2 billion fine for the transfer of European user data in the United States. For the law professor Anu Bradford, quoted by the NY Times, the latest decisions of the group “Show that technological companies comply with EU digital regulations, which suggests that they remain liable for governments, not the other way around”. Thus, we could begin to see, in Europe, different versions of consumer applications, due to new laws, regulations and court decisions.

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