💡 Did you know that starting May 27, Meta will start using public social media content in Europe, including posts and photos, to train its chatbot, Meta AI?
Meta says this will help the chatbot better understand European languages and cultures, and will make the program more human. But what does that mean for our digital privacy?
This topic was front and center in the interview with Ilyaz Nasrullah, Digital Strategist and Columnist, held last Friday at our Erasmus Data Collaboratory, and featured on the NOS Journaal yesterday evening.
While Meta claims only public data will be used, Ilyaz argues that our public social media posts reflect private aspects of our lives and that users haven’t meaningfully consented to their content being used to build a commercial product.
These concerns touch on the larger question of autonomy in the digital age.
That is why we are pleased that Ilyaz will also join us during our upcoming event ‘Academic Autonomy in the Digital Age: A Stakeholder Dialogue’ together with Kim van Sparrentak, Wout van Wijngaarden, and Jet de Ranitz. Here we will explore how AI, platform dependency, and data governance are reshaping the future of academia.
See the comments section to watch the program featuring the interview (starting at 3:44) and/or register for our stakeholder dialogue ‘Academic Autonomy in the Digital Age’.
