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According to Bloomberg the transcripts were opt-in: > The company said the users who were affected chose the option in Facebook’s Messenger app to have their v
by throwaway051755 7y ago
According to Bloomberg the transcripts were opt-in:
> The company said the users who were affected chose the option in Facebook’s Messenger app to have their voice chats transcribed. The contractors were checking whether Facebook’s artificial intelligence correctly interpreted the messages, which were anonymized.
- annadane 7y agoI don't know too much about this so apologies if this misses the mark, but how much of this was due to it being opt out? Or hidden behind confusing options?
- komali2 7y agoAccording to my experience they aren't. I sent a massive burp to the group chat, saw some new "transcribe" option under the audio file, which I ignored. Later I checked the chat and my buddy had "enabled transcriptions for this chat" and my audio file had "oh my god," I guess its transcription of my burp, as a caption.
- sterkekoffie 7y agoThe "data anonymization" defense is a pet peeve of mine and it's truly meaningless in this case. Stripping out explicitly identifying information from the data doesn't provide much privacy when the rest of the data potentially consist of things like your mom reciting her SSN to you or you discussing your doctors appointments in detail. Even if they vetted only seemingly trivial transcriptions, there is the possibility that, e.g., the computer heard "my chaise couch" when a human would clearly hear "my Chase account."