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📌 Pinterest used ~500 Million ROWS of user pins to train it's AI! (europe.pub)
submitted 3 weeks ago by to c/fuck_ai@lemmy.world
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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

Screenshot of the "Generative AI and model transparency" section on this page: https://help.pinterest.com/en/article/ai-at-pinterest Some sentences are underlined in red. Pinterest Canvas Version 6 (“Pinterest Canvas”) is a multimodal foundation model that powers Pinterest experiences by enabling the enhancement of images. Pinterest Canvas has been trained on approximately 500,000,000 rows of publicly available Pins, Pin descriptions, and Pin metadata that Pinterest users have saved or uploaded to Pinterest, to which the users have granted Pinterest a license, as well as the continuous use of synthetic data. Training data rows may include one or more images together with text instructions and a target image. The data in the datasets were collected by Pinterest as early as 2009 and were first used in the development of Pinterest Canvas in or around January 2023. The data collection is ongoing. The data in the datasets may include limited personal information, and material that may be protected by copyright, trademark, and/or patent. The datasets do not include aggregate user information. The datasets were cleansed, processed, and modified for quality purposes and to meet our trust, safety, and other internal standards.

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[–] 21 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (9 children)

Isn´t Pinterest the site nobody visits anymore because it's overrun with AI slop? I think it's dead.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

    Hmm a nice contribution to Model Collapse

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  • [–] 5 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    The only thing worth a damn is genuinely human-created content, but only because you can sell it to train AI which produces only negative value.

    We are in dire need of a market correction.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    Oh I agree, LLMs poisoning themselves on their own slop may help. However, the bubble should not pop yet - it needs to hurt a lot more, or people will never learn.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago

    People who control content-sites like Pinterest don't need to wait for the bubble to pop. They should see their eyeball count dropping precipitously the more AI content they have, and the fewer eyeballs means the less value the site has. But capitalism has trouble seeing past the next quarter.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    Your question assumes only one such site exists.

    Pinterest is that way, but not exclusively.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    I don't know... I've accidentally stumbled on Pinterest a couple of times in the last few years and it's been absolute garbage all the way down.

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    • [–] 3 points 3 weeks ago

    Nice to know that I was unknowingly contributing to AI training every time I saved an image I appreciated back in the 2010s, too. At least I put the wrong birth date on my account, I think.

    I’m no longer surprised by this shit, but I’m never any less angry. Fuck these people.

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