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📌 Pinterest used ~500 Million ROWS of user pins to train it's AI! (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 month ago by madeindex@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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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

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[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 26 points 1 month ago (3 children)

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 points 1 month 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"

[–] kazerniel@piefed.world 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] jumping_redditor@sh.itjust.works -4 points 1 month ago

how unimaginative were they?

[–] a4ng3l@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month 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…