Don't Train On Me

How to opt out of AI training on Instagram and Facebook

Public posts, photos, captions, and comments across both apps.

Meta uses public posts and photos going back to the start of the account.

A request they can refuseEffort: high
Open the Meta setting

What they use

Public posts, photos, captions, and comments across Facebook and Instagram, going back to the beginning of the account. Private messages are excluded unless you send them to an AI.

The honest version

There is no switch. There is an objection form, and Meta decides. In the EU and UK, GDPR Article 21 gives a right to object and the form is generally honoured. Elsewhere the form exists but the outcome is discretionary, and Meta has stated that public content is used regardless.

Submit the objection

  1. 1Go to facebook.com/privacy/genai while signed in.
  2. 2Choose the option to object to your information being used.
  3. 3State a reason. A brief factual sentence is enough.
  4. 4Save the confirmation email. It is your only receipt.

Do not promise

Do not mark this "done" on the user's behalf when the form is submitted. Mark it "submitted" and let them set it to done when a confirmation arrives.

A submitted objection, not a switch. Outside the EU and UK it may be refused.

Meta is one of thirty-one

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