As Meta, the company behind Facebook, continues to develop its generative artificial intelligence tools, you can now request the removal of some of the personal data the company uses to train its AI model. There are a ton of caveats, though. Earlier this year, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced plans to build a range of AI features into Meta's platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. Despite the popularity of generative AI in Silicon Valley, murky legal questions remain for the technology, and many people are anxious about its rapid advancement. Want to stop Meta from using all of your info to improve its AI?

Whereas many AI models are trained on carefully labelled datasets, Facebook said SEER learned how to identify objects in photos by analyzing random, unlabeled and uncurated Instagram images. This AI technique is known as self-supervised learning. "The future of AI is in creating systems that can learn directly from whatever information they're given -- whether it's text, images, or another type of data -- without relying on carefully curated and labeled data sets to teach them how to recognize objects in a photo, interpret a block of text, or perform any of the countless other tasks that we ask it to," Facebook's researchers wrote in a blog post. "SEER's performance demonstrates that self-supervised learning can excel at computer vision tasks in real-world settings," they added. "This is a breakthrough that ultimately clears the path for more flexible, accurate, and adaptable computer vision models in the future."