# Disableing or blocking AI **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [December 15, 2025, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disableing-or-blocking-ai/1025737 "2025-12-15T23:53:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/le_ministre_de_l_au-dela/32/12181_2.png) [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2025, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disableing-or-blocking-ai/1025737/1 "2025-12-15T23:53:29Z")
1. Is it true that Meta is going to use our input to train their AI as of tomorrow, Dec. 16, 2025? 2. Is it true that there is a way to prevent this? And 3. If there is a way to prevent Meta using your content to train its AI, what is that way? Thanking you in advance. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2025, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disableing-or-blocking-ai/1025737/2 "2025-12-16T02:44:30Z")
Don’t know about 1 and 2, but as far as #3 goes, remember that when you first signed up for Facebook or Instagram you agreed to a Term of service that allowed Meta access to and use of anything you did on their sites. And if you read the Terms you’ll see that the only way you can change that is either by getting written permission from Meta for the change (HA!) and if you don’t like it, close your account. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2025, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disableing-or-blocking-ai/1025737/3 "2025-12-16T02:59:21Z")
> **[Will Meta's planned policy update let it read users' DMs starting December 2025?](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/meta-dms-privacy-policy/)** > > Meta's update to its privacy policy will change what it does with data it already collects from interactions with Meta AI. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2025, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disableing-or-blocking-ai/1025737/4 "2025-12-16T03:40:00Z")
BTW, they have been using public content for AI training for years. [https://medium.com/@mendicott/meta-trains-llama-models-using-public-facebook-and-instagram-data-e173372e03de](https://medium.com/@mendicott/meta-trains-llama-models-using-public-facebook-and-instagram-data-e173372e03de) You can rest assured that just about every word of publicly posted text on the internet is being used by somebody on some model somewhere. Including these posts. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2025, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disableing-or-blocking-ai/1025737/5 "2025-12-16T06:08:21Z")
> [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](#): > > If there is a way to prevent Meta using your content to train its AI, what is that way? Yes. Live in Europe or another jurisdiction where there is a proper personal data protection law with real teeth. Outside of that, I’m sorry, all o’ y’all are at the mercy of the tech bros. ---
**Author:** ![Al128](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/al128/32/16541_2.png) [@Al128](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Al128)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2025, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disableing-or-blocking-ai/1025737/6 "2025-12-17T20:38:30Z")
… also time to reckon that this is partially due to some committed and law fearing citizens: (reuters report on an austrian law student who took on facebook and landed an earth-shaking win in terms of data privacy in europe) [https://www.reuters.com/article/technology/max-schrems-the-law-student-who-took-on-facebook-idUSKCN0S1240/#:~:text=By%20Julia%20Fioretti%2C%20Shadia%20Nasralla,just%20keep%20doing%20my%20thing.](https://www.reuters.com/article/technology/max-schrems-the-law-student-who-took-on-facebook-idUSKCN0S1240/#:~:text=By%20Julia%20Fioretti%2C%20Shadia%20Nasralla,just%20keep%20doing%20my%20thing.)" (and IIRC a couple of others after this 2015 articel)