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

    • PattyMcB@lemmy.world
      1·
      7 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·
        7 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.