evidence: It became clear earlier this year that Meta is ‘training’ its AI models using photos, posts and comments from users, after users in Europe were sent a message about an update to the privacy policy. [...] The company says that publicly available information from the internet is used to train models, along with what the company describes as "information shared on Meta’s Products and services. This information could be things like posts or photos and their captions. We do not use the content of your private messages with friends and family to train our AIs." [...] Tech companies including Meta, OpenAI and Alphabet's have been criticised for using information scraped from the internet without permission to train their AI models.