đź“Ś Pinterest used ~500 Million ROWS of user pins to train it's AI!
from madeindex@lemmy.world to privacy@lemmy.ml on 08 Sep 12:58
https://lemmy.world/post/51671855
from madeindex@lemmy.world to privacy@lemmy.ml on 08 Sep 12:58
https://lemmy.world/post/51671855
cross-posted from: 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? 🤓
Âą 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?
đź”— Source: help.pinterest.com/en/article/ai-at-pinterest
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A row is just an entry in a database, I have no idea why you would assume each one represents 4-6. It’s already bad enough, you don’t need to misinform to make it appear worse, you’ll only lose credibility.
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.
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”
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…