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Indeed, and asking facebook to delete the data or to not use it for AI training is just another data point indicating you care about it. Your preferences will eventually be stripped through redesigns, refactors, careless usage or facebooks crooked idea of consent. The data will remain and be used again.


It is better to NOT delete facebook, but spam your profile with other data and just leave it.


This, BTW, is the only way, last I checked, to at all obfuscate Zillow's listing photos of the inside of a house that you have since bought. No multi-delete.


Maybe, but that depends on facebook's ability to filter that data.. The filtering should be be easy for my inactive-for-10-years FB account that suddenly uploads a bunch of garbage data. Mixing in genuine data seems antithetical especially considering the garbage may be filtered out.


Ironically, this is a completely uncontroversial use case where AI excels.


And/or change friends to random spam accounts first, then unfriend your real friends.




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