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Meta uses “dark patterns” to thwart AI opt-outs in EU, complaint says (arstechnica.com)
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[–] Mikina@programming.dev 21 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Has anyone managed to figure out how to opt out?

I tried using the link from an email, but that landed me in generic contact us page, and when I selected that I want to opt out, they just said that the will contact me, and never did.

[–] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Opt outs are only for EU residents afaik

[–] Mikina@programming.dev 6 points 5 months ago

I am an EU resident. I eventually managed to find it by following the link in the email while signed in to FB, and sent a generic message that I don't trust AI to not misinterpret or leak my data, while also stating that I consider AI training to be by design a breach of my GDPR rights, since there is no way for them to delete your data from the AI once it has been trained on them, which the legislative hasn't caught up to handle yet, since AIs are kind of new and nobody expected that. It worked pretty quickly, and I should be opted out now

[–] recursive_recursion@programming.dev 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

unfortunately I don't use any of facebook's apps/products so I don't have any concrete ideas

however, maybe by citing GDPR you might have a pathway there?

this is probably a stupid idea and hopefully someone will know better