By posting a statement on Facebook or Instagram that begins with "Goodbye Meta AI," users are blocking the company from scraping their data to train artificial-intelligence tools.

The legality of scraping remains murky. In May 2025, Irish and German regulators declined to block Meta from using Facebook and Instagram data to train its Llama model, despite opposition from privacy ...

It’s causing users to short-circuit. Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, rolled artificial intelligence that is training on people’s posts, causing backlash toward the social ...