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Re:DeleteFB: Selenium script to delete all of your Facebook ... by Pokepokalypse on Monday May 20, 2019 @10:01PM (#19967048)
The corpus of all of your posts are valuable for statistical analysis for ML models, sentiment analysis, and the like.
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Re:DeleteFB: Selenium script to delete all of your Facebook ... by skinnymuch on Monday May 20, 2019 @10:17PM (#19967109)
Isn’t that all to sell you ads?
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Re:DeleteFB: Selenium script to delete all of your Facebook ... by IanCal on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @02:30AM (#19967986)
For the general "you" yes, but not the specific "you". It would be possible to use your data to sell someone else ads.
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Re:DeleteFB: Selenium script to delete all of your Facebook ... by dx034 on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @05:27AM (#19968672)
But they don't? They use data internally to improve ad revenue but I doubt they ever sold data for money or intend to do so.
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Re:DeleteFB: Selenium script to delete all of your Facebook ... by edmundsauto on Wednesday May 22, 2019 @01:14PM (#19983233)
Do you know what the legal status is of models derived from someone else's data? EG, can I train an AI from every Marvel movie, then use that to produce other movies?

That's not a great analogy because I would be violating other people's IP, whereas FB generally has rights to the data they collect.

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