Your old Facebook and Instagram posts were probably used to train Meta's AI. You can't opt-out as an American, but you can do this instead.

Meta has scraped public posts and photos on Facebook and Instagram since 2007 to train its AI models, as confirmed by the company's global privacy director.

Users in the European Union can opt out of having their data used for AI training, but no such option is available in the US or Australia.

To prevent your data from being used, ensure your audience setting is not public; otherwise, posts may be included in AI training.

Meta’s privacy center states that it only uses public posts and comments for AI training, ensuring private content remains untouched.

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