cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/51671840

📌 Pinterest used ~500 Million ROWS¹ of user pins² to train it’s AI!

Data from 2009-Now, however the Social Media corp claims “users have granted Pinterest a license”.

What license? Pretty sure AI training fine print wasn’t a thing in 2009!

It even includes “limited personal information”.

Grounds for a lawsuit? 🤓

¹ Never heard of this unit ever before, but even if we assume 1 ROW = 4-6 Pins that is 2-3 BILLION user Pins!

² Post would sound way worse wouldn’t it?

🔗 Source: https://help.pinterest.com/en/article/ai-at-pinterest

  • ladybugs@lemmy.world
    1·
    1 day ago

    Nice to know that I was unknowingly contributing to AI training every time I saved an image I appreciated back in the 2010s, too. At least I put the wrong birth date on my account, I think.

    I’m no longer surprised by this shit, but I’m never any less angry. Fuck these people.

      • Techlos@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        2·
        1 day ago

        mode collapse being misnamed as model collapse due to poor communication by ANN researchershas to be one of the most ironically inspired examples of mode collapse

      • schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works
        5·
        3 days ago

        The only thing worth a damn is genuinely human-created content, but only because you can sell it to train AI which produces only negative value.

        We are in dire need of a market correction.

        • nightwatch_admin@lemmy.world
          2·
          3 days ago

          Oh I agree, LLMs poisoning themselves on their own slop may help. However, the bubble should not pop yet - it needs to hurt a lot more, or people will never learn.

          • schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works
            2·
            3 days ago

            People who control content-sites like Pinterest don’t need to wait for the bubble to pop. They should see their eyeball count dropping precipitously the more AI content they have, and the fewer eyeballs means the less value the site has. But capitalism has trouble seeing past the next quarter.

      • PattyMcB@lemmy.world
        1·
        3 days ago

        I don’t know… I’ve accidentally stumbled on Pinterest a couple of times in the last few years and it’s been absolute garbage all the way down.

        • gastroglizzy@piefed.socialEnglish
          4·
          3 days ago

          Isn´t Pinterest the site nobody visits anymore because it’s overrun with AI slop?

          Pinterest is that way

          it’s been absolute garbage

          It sounds like we’re agreeing with each other.