Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community

Another reason to reconsider your use of Facebook, Insta and WhatApp: "Meta intends to begin using people's text exchanges and voice conversations with its AI service to generate personalized posts, reels, and other attention lures starting on December 16, 2025." Europe, the UK, and South Korea will be exempt, presumably because of personal data privacy laws. There's a list of 'untouchable topics' (leaving a lot of room open for interpretation) but otherwise, the main point is "using AI to encourage exposure to and engagement with ads, some of which may be generated by AI." It's Meta, but I can only imagine most other companies and institutions are lining up to do the same thing.

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Stephen Downes Stephen Downes, Casselman, Canada
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