Personally, I don’t interact with Meta’s/Facebook’s AI (and I never will) but this looks like a data leak waiting to happen.

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    Not to sound too mean here, but… not a single day goes by without someone complaining about Facebook/Meta and refusing to not use their shitty (dis-)services.

    To a degree, I get why people were or are using Facebook, etc, but how much more does need to happen, until they finally don’t anymore?

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      That’s true… If there was a FOSS-based alternative (like how Lemmy and its instances are alternatives to Reddit, or how Bluesky/Mastodon are alternatives to Xitter) I can see myself jumping ship and using that instead of Facebook/Messenger, with the only obstacle being that I kinda need Messenger for checking college announcements and communicating with professors and classmates, since that’s what everybody uses.

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        Isn’t Signal user friendly enough? Depending on the country, public services need to uphold a certain privacy standard anyway.

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    I recently wanted to watch a video online, that, it turned out, was hosted by facebook. It said I needed to sign up to watch it. I really wanted to watch it so decided to make a facebook account, but as part of the process, it said

    “Confirm your identity with a video selfie To make sure that you’re a real person, we need you to record a video selfie. We’ll ask you to move your head during the recording to help us capture your face at different angles.”

    And no way am I doing that, I mean what on earth are they going to use that for? So I didn’t sign up and didn’t get to watch the video.