Meta Platforms used public Facebook and Instagram posts to train its new Meta AI virtual assistant, but excluded private posts shared only with family and friends in an effort to respect consumers' privacy, the company's top policy executive told Reuters in an interview. 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's annual Connect conference this week. 'We've tried to exclude datasets that have a heavy preponderance of personal information,' Clegg said, adding that the 'vast majority' of the data used by Meta for training was publicly available.
MENLO PARK, California - Meta Platforms used public Facebook and Instagram posts to train its new Meta AI virtual assistant, but excluded private posts shared only with family and friends in an effort to respect consumers' privacy, the company's top policy executive told Reuters in an interview.
He cited LinkedIn as an example of a website whose content Meta deliberately chose not to use because of privacy concerns. Meta AI was the most significant product among the company's first consumer-facing AI tools unveiled by CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday at Meta's annual products conference, Connect. This year's event was dominated by talk of artificial intelligence, unlike past conferences which focused on augmented and virtual reality.
He said Meta also imposed safety restrictions on what content the tool could generate, like a ban on the creation of photo-realistic images of public figures.
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