Creating images with artificial intelligence has become very popular today. Meta was one of the pioneers of this movement. But everything has a price. While training this artificial intelligence algorithm, Meta used images from the platforms under its umbrella. Here are the details…

Emu, Meta’s new AI image generator, was trained on 1.1 billion Instagram and Facebook photos!

With the advancement of artificial intelligence studies, it has begun to settle in many areas of our lives. There is a very popular trend in social media applications lately. Once you describe the image in detail in written form, the artificial intelligence image creator shapes it in the artificial intelligence environment. Meta also kept up with this trend.

Meta launched a free, independent AI image generator website called “Imagine with Meta AI ” on Wednesday. Thus, he joined the trend of creating images with artificial intelligence. Meta used 1.1 billion publicly available Facebook and Instagram images to train its AI model, which can create a new image from a written prompt.

In fact, this technology is not new for Meta. There was previously a version of this technology that used the same data. However, it was only available for messaging and social networking apps like Instagram.

If you use Facebook or Instagram, there’s a good chance a photo of you could help train that algorithm. Thus, the old saying “If you’re not paying for it, you’re the product” took on a whole new meaning. As of 2016, Instagram users upload more than 95 million photos a day. But the dataset Meta uses to train its AI model is a small subset of its overall photo library.

Meta states that it only uses publicly available photos for the tutorial. If you set your photos on Instagram or Facebook under Meta’s umbrella to private, it will prevent the company from being included in the training of future AI algorithms. As long as Meta maintains this policy, you can protect your personal data.