<story><title>Facebook scraped every Australian adult user&apos;s public posts to train AI</title><url>https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-09-11/facebook-scraping-photos-data-no-opt-out/104336170</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>shsbdncudx</author><text>Presumably “scraped” isnt the right term here. They already have the raw data, they
Won’t be “scraping “ it from the website they’ll just be investing it from where they store it</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>camkego</author><text>It’s interesting to think about what the right verb is.&lt;p&gt;I’d probably say Meta trained their models using all self-hosted, public AU citizen’s data.&lt;p&gt;But it doesn’t really sound as scary as “scraped” to non-technical users.</text></comment>
<story><title>Facebook scraped every Australian adult user&apos;s public posts to train AI</title><url>https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-09-11/facebook-scraping-photos-data-no-opt-out/104336170</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>shsbdncudx</author><text>Presumably “scraped” isnt the right term here. They already have the raw data, they
Won’t be “scraping “ it from the website they’ll just be investing it from where they store it</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Cyclone_</author><text>Agreed, scraping is more appropriate for when one gathers data from a 3rd party site.</text></comment>