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Meta Uses Your Data Since 2007!
Alamin Hossain
September 12, 2024
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Adobe AI Video Tools Go Public Soon
Google's Co-Founder is Back!
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How to Disabling Grok AI's Access to Your Data
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Facebook Photos Used for AI Training!
Image source: The Verge
Meta Confirms Using User Posts for AI Training Since 2007
Meta has been using all user posts on Facebook and Instagram globally to train its AI, unless users manually opted out.
Australian users cannot opt out of this AI training program, unlike users in the EU and UK.
Meta does not use data from users under 18 for AI training, but still collects data from their parents' accounts.
This revelation highlights potential privacy concerns and differences in regulations across regions, raising questions about user consent and data protection in AI development.
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Adobe AI Video Tools Go Public Soon
Adobe announced that users will soon be able to try out the company's AI model for video production.
The company says its AI video production features will be available in beta mode on Premiere Pro and the Firefly website before the end of 2024.
Adobe mentions that three AI features—Text to Video, Generative Extend, and Image to Video are currently in private beta but will be publicly available soon.
Generative Extend, which allows you to increase the length of any video by two seconds, will be included in Premiere Pro's beta program by late 2024.
The Text to Video and Image to Video features, which create five-second videos from text or image prompts, will be available on the dedicated Firefly website later this year.
Adobe's AI tools for video production will enable users to create video clips using text descriptions and adjust the output with various "Camera controls" including angle, movement, and distance.
Adobe also claims that Firefly's Text to Video feature is very good at recognizing correct spellings, a common challenge for video generation models.
Additionally, with the Image to Video feature, you can create videos using a reference image. It seems the quality of these tools matches that of videos generated by the Sora model. However, these tools currently only allow you to create clips up to five seconds long.
One advantage Adobe's model may have over Sora is that, since Firefly is trained on licensed content, using this AI should be safer and may alleviate some concerns about copyright infringement.
Google's Co-Founder is Back!
Sergey Brin Returns to Google, Driven by Passion for AI Advancements
Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google, is actively working at Google almost every day, focusing on AI projects.
Brin's involvement includes significant contributions to AI products like Gemini and the ambitious Astra project.
He expressed excitement about the rapid progress in AI, which has reignited his passion and brought him back to Google after retiring in 2019.
Brin's return to Google, a tech giant he co-founded, underscores the growing significance of AI. His hands-on involvement in AI projects like Gemini and Astra highlights the transformative potential of AI and Google's commitment to leading in this field.
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BYTE-SIZED NEWS | TOO HOT TO MISS
The former head of Google China, Kai-Fu Lee, says Chinese AI models are about six months behind U.S. models but could soon surpass them in adoption.
A group of Democratic senators urged the FTC and DOJ to investigate AI tools for potentially violating competition laws by using others' content without compensation.
How to Disabling Grok AI's Access to Your Data
X uses your data to train their AI.
If you don't want Grok AI to use your data for training, you can turn off this option in the settings.
You can’t do this through the X mobile app. You’ll need to use a desktop browser.
To turn off Grok's access:
Go to the Settings and Privacy section in X.
Find the Privacy and Safety section.
Scroll down to find Grok and click on it.
Uncheck the box in this section to stop Grok from accessing your data.
You can also delete your conversation history by clicking the red "Delete conversation history" button.
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