Document Type
Poster
Publication Date
Fall 2024
Abstract
This research examines how social media platforms like Instagram’s 2025 Terms of Services (TOS) updates reflect the increasing demand for AI training data, illustrating the critical concerns about user privacy and data rights. Technology companies like Meta progressively require vast amounts of user-generated content to develop competitive AI systems to generate financial gain. Forming their data collection practices has led to their updated terms and services. In particular, their expanded AI training rights and modified dispute resolution procedures reveal the complex tension between technological advancement and user privacy. AI training data raises urgent questions about consent, ownership, and the commodification of personal experience for these algorithms. Shoshana Zuboff refers to this issue as surveillance capitalism.
Recommended Citation
Hernandez Brito, Marisol and Elkins, Katherine, "Instagram's 2025 Terms of Service: The Evolution of Surveillance Capitalism and AI Training Data" (2024). IPHS 200: Programming Humanity. Paper 75.
https://digital.kenyon.edu/dh_iphs_prog/75
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