Meta, formerly Facebook, is using users’ public posts on Instagram and Facebook to train powerful AI tools, making their social media profiles one of the most valuable datasets globally. Mark Zuckerberg boasted about Meta’s vast library of user-generated content during an earnings call, emphasizing the immense value of personal data in training AI models like Llama and Imagine.
Meta’s stock market value surged by $200 billion in a single day, attributing much of the increase to their AI initiatives leveraging public social media content.