It would be interesting to see just how often Instagram sold its users’ images to companies creating generative image models.
I see a lot of artists complaining that their work was used for training, but they also agreed to upload their photos to a company along with a royalty free license.
I’ve used it for translating reviews where the website’s (or google’s) translator does a terrible job. It seems to do a much better job (at least the reviews made a lot more sense and I got a lot more out of it).
But I absolutely agree, don’t ever trust it to be completely accurate, especially with something important like contracts.
edit: grammar.