Your 'ingram' personality will forever live online, like a ghost...in machine...to forever be recommended to new users and great great grandkids.
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I don't think you can do anything about it, anything public is going to get scraped and fed to A.I. Even if you don't consent to people using your pictures, its going to happen regardless. The best thing to do is keep private things private and assume the worst for anything you or others make public.
As overly pessimistic as it sounds, this is really it.
Unlearn the notion that you can live part of your private life on large platforms (in the widest sense).
All this is already happening and has been for a while before the whole AI hype even started.
I will take your question as a more general "What can happen", not focusing too much on LLMs. Although arguably it was their precursors who started the more nefarious ways of aquiring & perusing ever more esp. behavioral data.
So the question is: what are the real-life harms of private online data collection everybody warns about? The answer is as long winded as explaining the mechanism of the aquisition itself.
It's pervasive. "They" can tweak almost every manner of interaction with their customers/subjects. It affects younger people (and I mean younger than me, and I still remember the time when there was no internet for the people) constantly and in ways they aren't even aware of. It allows the creation of data sets that are being sold on - now including DNA thanks to millions of useful idiots who went to 23andme -
out of breath. maybe somebody else can continue this
Whether you like it or not, they probably already know who you are too. They're collecting shadow profiles of people who haven't signed up through various means.
If others have posted pictures of you on a meta service, there is a good chance it already knows what you look like and they know it's you even if you're not tagged.
People who allow them access are just less work for them. And now they have info to train their so-called AI models. Now it's a question about what are they going to with them. The application is wide. Create fake pictures, create fake profiles, etc. And at some point we will find out about a massive data leak that happened because the company is run by unapologetic sociopaths.
I once got a pop up ad on an old tablet where the person in the image looked a lot like me. It was so bizarre. I thought it was some AI generated ad. This was like 3 years ago though and I didn't have Facebook anymore.
But you had Facebook. That's as good as having it. They know you. Their grubby tentacles will never let go!