Facebook is starting to feed its AI with private, unpublished photos
10 months ago
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- Meta is training its AI on unpublished photos from users' camera rolls via a new 'cloud processing' feature.
- Users are prompted to opt into this feature, which allows Meta to analyze media, facial features, and other data from unpublished photos.
- Meta's AI terms grant the company the right to retain and use personal information from these photos.
- Meta has previously used public posts from Facebook and Instagram since 2007 to train its AI models, but its definitions of 'public' and 'adult user' remain vague.
- Unlike Google, Meta's AI usage terms do not clarify if unpublished photos accessed via 'cloud processing' are exempt from being used as training data.
- Users can disable camera roll cloud processing in settings, which removes unpublished photos from the cloud after 30 days.
- Meta is already offering AI restyling suggestions on previously-uploaded photos, sometimes without users' awareness, as seen in a case where wedding photos were altered in a Studio Ghibli style.