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📌 Pinterest used ~500 Million ROWS of user pins to train it's AI! (thelemmy.club)
submitted 1 month ago by to c/antisocialmedia@piefed.social
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/51671840

📌 Pinterest used ~500 Million ROWS¹ of user pins² to train it's AI!

Data from 2009-Now, however the Social Media corp claims "users have granted Pinterest a license".

What license? Pretty sure AI training fine print wasn't a thing in 2009!

It even includes "limited personal information".

Grounds for a lawsuit? 🤓

¹ Never heard of this unit ever before, but even if we assume 1 ROW = 4-6 Pins that is 2-3 BILLION user Pins!

² Post would sound way worse wouldn't it?

🔗 Source: https://help.pinterest.com/en/article/ai-at-pinterest

Screenshot of the "Generative AI and model transparency" section on this page: https://help.pinterest.com/en/article/ai-at-pinterest Some sentences are underlined in red. Pinterest Canvas Version 6 (“Pinterest Canvas”) is a multimodal foundation model that powers Pinterest experiences by enabling the enhancement of images. Pinterest Canvas has been trained on approximately 500,000,000 rows of publicly available Pins, Pin descriptions, and Pin metadata that Pinterest users have saved or uploaded to Pinterest, to which the users have granted Pinterest a license, as well as the continuous use of synthetic data. Training data rows may include one or more images together with text instructions and a target image. The data in the datasets were collected by Pinterest as early as 2009 and were first used in the development of Pinterest Canvas in or around January 2023. The data collection is ongoing. The data in the datasets may include limited personal information, and material that may be protected by copyright, trademark, and/or patent. The datasets do not include aggregate user information. The datasets were cleansed, processed, and modified for quality purposes and to meet our trust, safety, and other internal standards.

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[–] 12 points 1 month ago (1 child)

Pinterest's whole model is locking other people's content behind the walls of its own platform. It should've been illegal from the start.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago*

    I think it’s the most removed site from Kagi search because it offers zero value to a user who lands on its site and yet it’s ranking very high on search engines such as Google. It’s such a pain

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    • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    could 1 mean row in the DB sense here which presumably would be 1:1 with Pins?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    Not necessarily. It depends on their database schema. A single Pin may consist of rows from several different tables that are related to each other with a key of some kind.

    So, 500 million pins would be the upper bound.

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