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

submitted 2 weeks ago by madeindex@lemmy.world to c/technology@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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[–] Markaos@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, it's not even capitalized in the source article, so OP just invented a new unit to be 4-6x more outraged, lol.

Unless it refers to the famous Really Outrageously Wide Stack, usually representing stacks of 16386 records each. Omg, it's over 8 TRILLION pins!

In short, Pinterest sucks and OP enjoys clickbait writing style. Avoiding both is probably the best way forward.