evidence: Hundreds of thousands of people have fallen for a hoax that claims to deny Meta the right to use their photos for training the company’s AI. [...] "Does posting a statement ensure that users of Meta services will not have their data used in Meta’s artificial intelligence training? No, that’s not true," Lead Stories says. [...] Back in February, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg made clear that he is using images posted on Facebook and Instagram to train the company’s generative AI tools with.