May 27, 2024 - Heads up if you are like me and still have a Facebook account you use infrequently: They're rolling out "AI features" for which they want to use all of your photographs, posts, likes and whatever. There's an opt out possibility at the "Right To Object" link. I don't know if this will work for Americans because you have no consumer protections, but I just filled in my EU country, said the processing impacts me because i'm an artist and my posts are my copyright and I'll sue them under EU law if they use them, and told them to go fuck themselves in the space for additional notes. After verifying my email I almost immediately got the response that my objection will be honored:

Now, this is Meta, so they are almost certainly lying about this, but for the future class action lawsuits against the company it's good to have officially opted out.

@archerwhiterp I got a notification about it on both Facebook and Instagram (yes! thanks @moitt, important point: it's also instagram where theyre doing this, I objected to both).

They made the opt-out page some weird custom thing I think that you can only get to through their notification; but maybe you can try this link:

https://www.facebook.com/privacy/consent/?flow=privacy_policy_notice_usecase&params[usecase]=genai_2024&params[notification_surface]=facebook_qp_jewel&source=facebook_www_jewel

It's the direct url from that tiny "right to object" link in the popup their notification opens, but with my tracking data stripped out. Some of my friends tried it and it lead them to the right page. @catvincent Are you from the US? It sounds like it automatically approves objections from EU citizens, no matter what you put in any of the text fields, and fails for US citizens. So uh, I would just try lying and say youre from the EU.