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- technology@lemmy.ml
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/51671840
📌 Pinterest used ~500 Million ROWS¹ of user pins² to train it’s AI!
Data from 2009-Now, however the Social Media corp claims “users have granted Pinterest a license”.
What license? Pretty sure AI training fine print wasn’t a thing in 2009!
It even includes “limited personal information”.
Grounds for a lawsuit? 🤓
¹ Never heard of this unit ever before, but even if we assume 1 ROW = 4-6 Pins that is 2-3 BILLION user Pins!
² Post would sound way worse wouldn’t it?
🔗 Source: https://help.pinterest.com/en/article/ai-at-pinterest
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Why would a row be more than one pin? That’s not how computering works.
And yeah, when you give a company license to do whatever they want with your data, “whatever they want” includes AI.
I mean, fuck Pinterest, but this isn’t news.
I think people see the word “row” is being interpreted as a horizontal line of content on a feed page because they don’t know the computing definition of “data record”
And yeah, when you give a company license to do whatever they want with your data, “whatever they want” includes AI.
I think an important point is that with the decline of Pinterest’s popularity, most of their data was probably acquired many years before genAI became mainstream. (Like I think I only used it around 2008-2010.) So most users probably never imagined their data could be used for training like this in the future.
how unimaginative were they?
In data analytics you sometimes see some weird datasets spanning across a whole lot of columns with what would be otherwise normalised in different records with relations instead.
Shit can be weird in data…
A row is just an entry in a database, I have no idea why you would assume each one represents 4-6. It’s already bad enough, you don’t need to misinform to make it appear worse, you’ll only lose credibility.
If they were publicly available pins, and users agreed to the license that gave them permission to use their data, then they can do that.
I think the broader issue is people being acclimated to permissive licenses, and not having privacy as a default
Are there any good alternatives for pintrest?
