If you (like me) ignored Instagram's email abt AI at first bc you were fucking annoyed, let this be your reminder that you can send a request that your data may not be used for their AI in less than a minute. Click the link in the email and do it. You'll get the confirmation in just a minute.
on top of this, for people in the UK and Europe, if you can't do it in the way above:
- go to your account
- click the three horizontal lines in the top right
- scroll down to and click "about"
- click privacy policy
- there should be a box at the top talking about updating their privacy policy, click the link that says "right to reject"
it will take you to a form you need to fill out, the words I used for the required reason were as follows;
Copyright - Europe's strict GDPR privacy laws mean Meta is obliged to honor all requests, regardless of reason.
reblog this if you can. protect your privacy, it matters.
I've been going through every page related to Privacy Policy and can't find anything, so I ran a search and discovered this gem:
turns out that In the USA, you can only opt out by setting your account to private
for Meta users in the USA, there isn’t a way to stop Meta AI from learning from your public social media posts, as there are no privacy laws specific to this
“While we don’t currently have an opt-out feature, we’ve built in-platform tools that allow people to delete their personal information from chats with Meta A.I. across our apps,” Meta said in a statement
those using Meta apps within the European Union, Britain, the European Economic Area, and Switzerland were notified that they could opt out, according to Meta, but others are out of luck