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

  • 9point6@lemmy.world
    5·
    13 hours 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”