You thought that Instagram and Facebook were "free"? Nope. You pay with your data. Now, all of those photos you have been uploading for a decade is being used to train their AI image generator. If its "free" you are the product. Archive: https://archive.today/V6paR From the post: "On Wednesday, Meta released a free standalone AI image-generator website, "Imagine with Meta AI," based on its Emu image-synthesis model. Meta used 1.1 billion publicly visible Facebook and Instagram images to train the AI model, which can render a novel image from a written prompt. Previously, Meta's version of this technology—using the same data—was only available in messaging and social networking apps such as Instagram."