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this post was submitted on 11 Jul 2026
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Did they really think people would be okay with being automatically opted in for a feature that would allow other people to generate AI content of them (without notifying said person, at that)?
It's unbelievable what people have already allowed, why not go for it if you're meta?
I know, I know… it just makes me sad seeing that they leverage tech-illiteracy to try to pass things like that. I wish people would tell them to fuck off but I think we all know too well that it’s not going to happen :(
My mom did that shit and I'm still pissed off. I didn't give her permission to feed my family to the AI machine to produce uncanny valley pictures of us
How does it feel knowing your soul is trapped in a Meta server?
Someday your body will return to dust, and your soul will still be languishing without any legs in their knock-off Second Life.
Sorry, bro.
What's permissible in every relationship is different and I understand why that could be a real violation of trust. Of course, in general and barring some narrow exceptions, none of us have the authority to tell others what they may do with images of us.
Why does this read like slop generated to defend corporate violation of personal rights?
no ur slop
you say "corporate violation of personal rights" i say "basic journalism" agree to disagree
Producing deepfakes is "basic journalism" to you?
Of course not, why do you say that?
no ur slop
I didn't know they trained their models on playground insult patterns
you say "corporate violation of personal rights" i say "basic journalism"
There is nothing journalistic to the way Meta, Grok and their ilk handle your pictures, nor about a family member disrespecting your wishes not to have them uploaded there.
In general, your right to control what is done with your likeness should be the base assumption, to which some forms of journalistic usage can be argued to be an exception. Even more than that, it should be expectable of family to honour your wishes, no matter whether they understand or agree with your reasoning. My mom likes to isolate herself from news about current events because of all the negativity, which I find deeply irresponsible, but I don't blast her with them out of a fundamental human respect for her wishes.
I try to act in such a way that the reasoning behind my actions could be made law and I would agree with it. One such lawn would then be not to put your own enjoyment over other people's comfort.
agree to disagree
I don't think that sentiment applies to discussions about human rights.
So you're going to insult me and my writing to my face for apparently no reason except that you get off on it, and then when I call you out on it, you're going to act like I'm the child. You know what? Fuck off, we're done.
So you're going to insult me and my writing to my face for apparently no reason except that you get off on it
No, it just sounded like a pro-AI talking point, with the kind of affirmative "you are absolutely right" leading into a general anti-personal-rights statement of the sort an LLM might generate.
when I call you out on it, you're going to act like I'm the child.
"No u" is hardly a callout. It's literally a child's reaction to criticism, attempting to reflect it rather than engage. At least I made an effort to form sentences and arguments, have a conversation, you know?
I'm not an AI or your mom that you can just take your shit out on
I avoid interacting with AI if I can help it (and if I genuinely thought you're a bot, I wouldn't even have replied). I also don't take shit out on my mom, because why the hell would I? Frankly, I'm concerned that it's a thought that occurred to you.
I hope your mom is doing well. And I hope she's not uploading your images to the slopmachine.
It'll be back, and probably in an even more malicious form. Let's not forget, even for a second, that Meta is one of the most sinister and evil corporations in human history.
They probably already have a metaverse server inhabited by little avatars of everyone they've ever profiled, who must all bow down before AI zuckerberg
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They will juat repackage it and ship it under a different name and put it in a massive ToS update that nobody reads.
Reading the article I was curious what the feature was. Then I read its been cooked up by meta's super intelligence lab wow. Ok so what's the feature "allow individuals to generate images by @-mentioning public Instagram accounts" Oh its just prompt to image the thing we've had for nearly 4 years now. Thats so fucking boring and so obviously a bad idea. Who wants ai slop spammed in the comment section? Its already half the posts. These people have unlimited money, access to one of the biggest platforms ever and thats what they come up with. These ghouls are souless they have no imagination.
Well then.