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Meta’s AI is scraping users’ photos and posts. Europeans can opt out, but Australians cannot

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Meta is using public Facebook and Instagram photos and posts of its users to train artificial intelligence.

European users have been allowed to opt out of the mass-scraping of their content.

But Australian users do not have that option, a parliamentary committee has heard.

The parent company paused the launch of its AI product in Europe in July due to privacy rules.

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