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Meta announced on Wednesday that data collected from user interactions with its AI products will soon be used to sell targeted ads across its social media platforms.

The company will update its privacy policy by December 16 to reflect the change, and will notify users in the coming days. The new policy applies globally, except for users in South Korea, the United Kingdom, and the European Union, where privacy laws prevent this type of data collection.

Here we go! People are gonna get a taste of their own medicine. Glad I’m cured of that disease.

..., except for users in South Korea, the United Kingdom, and the European Union, ...

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Yeah... it's sad. I was wondering why that whatsapp feature wasn't monetized yet when I wrote the weekly, but I was just early.

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... when I wrote the weekly, but I was just early.

I didn’t get it!

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(I mean #1241673)

Y'all hooked yet? Time to start reeling in them sweet profitsY'all hooked yet? Time to start reeling in them sweet profits



The monetization folks at OpenAI and Google have neatly timed their joint appearance on the stage this week: OpenAI is preparing to launch advertising in ChatGPT [..] YouTube Music is testing AI hosts that will interrupt your tunes [..]

When I wrote this, I wondered: why no Meta announcement. But I was early and/or they were late.

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Now I get it! I always hear that when you have a 'good' idea, a million other people already had it too. You really thought Zuck was gonna let this one go? Hahaha!

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Lol can imagine all the betterhelp ads filtering through to all those people relationships with AI,

Stop it, get some help, get better help

https://media.tenor.com/mZZoOtDcouoAAAAC/stop-it-get-some-help.gif

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Imagine how awesome @lunin's prospective dating AI would get with all that data infused tho

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110 sats \ 1 reply \ @gmd 1 Oct

Is there anyone actually using Meta's AI products???

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Normies, mostly from whatsapp.. i.e. the easiest to exploit.

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There will come a time that bitcoin will start to crush the malinvestments like those big tech companies.

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Apparently 63% of VCs are not thinking these are malinvestments. This worries me.

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Good observations.

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I think the most interesting part of this development is not what Meta is doing but what it signals about the direction of the AI advertising ecosystem. Data from AI interactions is arguably more context rich than standard social media activity because it captures intent mood and problem solving in real time. That means ad targeting could become significantly more precise and potentially more persuasive. At the same time the absence of this change in regions like the EU UK and South Korea speaks volumes about the impact of strong privacy regulations. This split will likely accelerate the policy conversation in countries without such protections as people begin to realize the gap in how their data is being used.