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Photojournalists Sign Open Letter Urging Meta Not to Use Their Photos for AI Training
Scores of photographers have signed an open letter rallying against Meta's plan to use public photos on Instagram and Facebook to train its AI tools.
Scores of photographers have signed an open letter rallying against Meta's plan to use public photos on Instagram and Facebook to train its AI tools.
After Meta announced that its new artificial intelligence (AI) models were trained on public Instagram and Facebook posts; it began allowing people to "opt-out" of the training data.
In early January, Adobe came under fire for language used in its terms and conditions that seemed to indicate that it could use photographers' photos to train generative artificial intelligence systems. The company has reiterated that this is not the case.
Adobe has added a "Content Analysis" section to its privacy and personal data collection permissions that, unless opted out of, opens photographers' images to being used to train the company's artificial intelligence and machine learning models.