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đź“Ś Pinterest used ~500 Million ROWS of user pins to train it's AI! (lemmy.world)
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📌 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? 🤓

Âą 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?

đź”— Source: https://help.pinterest.com/en/article/ai-at-pinterest

Screenshot of the "Generative AI and model transparency" section on this page: https://help.pinterest.com/en/article/ai-at-pinterest Some sentences are underlined in red. Pinterest Canvas Version 6 (“Pinterest Canvas”) is a multimodal foundation model that powers Pinterest experiences by enabling the enhancement of images. Pinterest Canvas has been trained on approximately 500,000,000 rows of publicly available Pins, Pin descriptions, and Pin metadata that Pinterest users have saved or uploaded to Pinterest, to which the users have granted Pinterest a license, as well as the continuous use of synthetic data. Training data rows may include one or more images together with text instructions and a target image. The data in the datasets were collected by Pinterest as early as 2009 and were first used in the development of Pinterest Canvas in or around January 2023. The data collection is ongoing. The data in the datasets may include limited personal information, and material that may be protected by copyright, trademark, and/or patent. The datasets do not include aggregate user information. The datasets were cleansed, processed, and modified for quality purposes and to meet our trust, safety, and other internal standards.
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[–] 7 points 1 month ago (1 child)

I guarantee you their license from inception has given them control and ownership of data you put on the platform in perpetuity

This is basically what everyone does and no one cares because it’s buried in a 50+ page tos/eula that changes every few months and apparently is binding if you simply click a button

The tv stuff is what everyone’s mad about right now but do you know how many photo kiosks and websites reserve the right to use the pictures you upload for printing? How many games and cell phone apps profile you? How many smart devices phone home with local WiFi ssds, usage patterns, etc?

Once they establish ownership they can exercise control pretty much however they want. Model training is just the new “this will be a cash cow somehow” fad and everyone with a massive dataset is looking to capitalize on it

We have let the advertising and data collection industry get completely out of control because the overwhelming majority of people are mindless consumers that don’t give a fuck

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