Zuckerberg’s AI plan hinges on your Facebook and Insta data

Zuckerberg’s AI plan hinges on your Facebook and Insta data
The problem with Mark Zuckerberg's ambitions for artificial intelligence is what the fallout could be for the rest of us. (Image: Bloomberg)
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By Parmy Olson For many people, Facebook is the internet, and the number of its users is still growing, according to Meta’s latest financial results. But Mark Zuckerberg isn’t just celebrating that continuing growth. He wants to take advantage of it by using data from Facebook and Instagram to create powerful, general-purpose artificial intelligence (AI). Sounds great, and Meta is well positioned to do it, but his billions of users may end up paying the price with their privacy and more. Here’s how Zuckerbe...

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