On Wednesday, Meta fronted a parliamentary Select Committee on Adopting Artificial Intelligence and admitted it has used Australians' posts to train its AI models – and has done as far back as 2007 – unless they were denoted as private, or posted by users under 18 years of age.
https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Senate/Adopting_Artificial_Intelligence_AI
When pressed on whether that meant pictures of minors posted by an adult, Facebook execs reportedly first said it wouldn't happen.......
then corrected their position and admitted images of minors could be ingested.
That admission didn't go down well.
More here:
https://www.theregister.com/2024/09/13/australia_vs_big_tech/