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

  • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world
    26·
    7 days ago

    Why would a row be more than one pin? That’s not how computering works.

    And yeah, when you give a company license to do whatever they want with your data, “whatever they want” includes AI.

    I mean, fuck Pinterest, but this isn’t news.

    • 9point6@lemmy.world
      6·
      7 days ago

      I think people see the word “row” is being interpreted as a horizontal line of content on a feed page because they don’t know the computing definition of “data record”

    • a4ng3l@lemmy.world
      1·
      7 days ago

      In data analytics you sometimes see some weird datasets spanning across a whole lot of columns with what would be otherwise normalised in different records with relations instead.

      Shit can be weird in data…

    • kazerniel@piefed.worldEnglish
      3·
      7 days ago

      And yeah, when you give a company license to do whatever they want with your data, “whatever they want” includes AI.

      I think an important point is that with the decline of Pinterest’s popularity, most of their data was probably acquired many years before genAI became mainstream. (Like I think I only used it around 2008-2010.) So most users probably never imagined their data could be used for training like this in the future.