How to Opt Out of Meta (Facebook) ai
Adrian Vicol
Opt out of Meta AI with this quick guide; easily stop Facebook from using your personal data to train their AI models.
Why should I opt out of Meta AI training ?
Starting June 2024, Meta has said in their Privacy Policy, that it is using info from your chats and posts on Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and WhatsApp to train its AI, even using photos of non-users if shared by others.
This has prompted several legal fights over data scraping, that is considered free-game for the major AI companies. In the meanwhile, if you reside in a jurisdiction that grants you such rights, you might want to opt out, if you’re not confortable with Meta using your data.
How do I opt out of Meta AI training ?
In order to help you opt out of having your personal data used to train Meta AI models, we compiled this detailed step by step guide. This way you will be able to continue to use your Facebook account as before, but Facebook will no longer be able to use your photos, posts and content to further train their AI models.
Meta Opt Out Guide Steps:
- Guide: How to opt out of Meta AI!
- Fill in your email address.
- Afterwards, click on "Log In".
- Go to Your Account
- Click on "Settings & privacy".
- Click on "Privacy Centre".
- You will then need to scroll down to the Privacy Policy link.
- Click on "Privacy Policy".
- In the Privacy Policy you now need to scroll down to the "Rights" section.
- Click on "Object".
- Afterwards, click on "opt out".
- Click on "Yes".
- Click on "Submit".
- To wrap up, click on "OK".
Pro Tip: If you are also logged into Facebook you can try to navigate directly to the Meta AI opt out form submission link.
This should look like this template, and all you need to do is fill in the email address that you used to sign in to Facebook.
How do I know that Meta has responded to my request ?
Once you have submitted your request it may take one or two days for Facebook to get back to you. Once this happens you will receive a response both in the Notification area of your Facebook page, as well as on your Facebook registered email address.
The response for the confirmation of your opt out preference looks like this:
How to delete your Facebook account and personal data ?
If you opt out of AI processing, that does not mean that Facebook no longer keeps your personal data. It has just stopped using it to train their Meta AI models. The only way to get your data deleted from Facebook is to delete your account.
Learn how to send a data deletion request to any company !
How do I know which companies hold my personal data and how do I ask for data deletion?
Finding the companies that have your data takes a lot of time and it’s quite an impossible task. Filling in the Data Deletion Request template takes time. Going on their website and through their privacy policy to discover the right email to send it to is taxing. Doing this for 100+ companies is near to impossible.
If you want to use AgainstData.com to find out which companies hold your data and send them Data Deletion Requests, simply follow these steps:
Go to AgainstData.com
Sign-in with your Gmail account
See which companies have your data
Ask for deletion with 1 click