Facebook Is Asking To Use Meta AI On Photos In Your Camera Roll You Haven't Yet Shared

Facebook is prompting users to opt into a feature that uploads photos from their camera roll -- even those not shared on the platform -- to Meta's servers for AI-driven suggestions like collages and stylized edits. While Meta claims the content is private and not used for ads, opting in allows the company to analyze facial features and retain personal data under its broad AI terms, raising privacy concerns. TechCrunch reports: The feature is being suggested to Facebook users when they're creating a new Story on the social networking app. Here, a screen pops up and asks if the user will opt into "cloud processing" to allow creative suggestions. As the pop-up message explains, by clicking "Allow," you'll let Facebook generate new ideas from your camera roll, like collages, recaps, AI restylings, or photo themes. To work, Facebook says it will upload media from your camera roll to its cloud (meaning its servers) on an "ongoing basis," based on information like time, location, or themes.

The message also notes that only you can see the suggestions, and the media isn't used for ad targeting. However, by tapping "Allow," you are agreeing to Meta's AI Terms. This allows your media and facial features to be analyzed by AI, it says. The company will additionally use the date and presence of people or objects in your photos to craft its creative ideas. [...] According to Meta's AI Terms around image processing, "once shared, you agree that Meta will analyze those images, including facial features, using AI. This processing allows us to offer innovative new features, including the ability to summarize image contents, modify images, and generate new content based on the image," the text states.

The same AI terms also give Meta's AIs the right to "retain and use" any personal information you've shared in order to personalize its AI outputs. The company notes that it can review your interactions with its AIs, including conversations, and those reviews may be conducted by humans. The terms don't define what Meta considers personal information, beyond saying it includes "information you submit as Prompts, Feedback, or other Content." We have to wonder whether the photos you've shared for "cloud processing" also count here.

glad I uninstalled the app

[MobileTatsu-NJG]

Worried this could one day become a possibility I uninstalled the FB app. Now that I'm saying (typing) this out load I'm realizing Messenger and Instagram need to go, too.

Umm... don't Android users worry about this from Google? I'm legitimately asking.

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[znrt]

you can't uninstall google, although you can go for an ungoogled os ...

i would say fb/ig apps are toxic, i never installed them, but then ... mobile apps are toxic by nature, simply because mainstream mobile oses are designed with limited user agency in mind, you cant get around them without resorting to the nuclear option of opting out completely and running your phone on some linux variety and forfeit a lot of functionality. most people won't like that. then again, a majority of desktop users aren't savy

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[sound+vision]

I'm worried about it from all the major OS providers - Google, Microsoft, Apple. The only thing to do is cut them out to the extent possible.

Getting rid of Windows will be fairly easy (I'm already familiar with Linux) but I haven't decided what to do phone-wise yet. I need MS Teams for work, not sure if that will run outside of Android/iOS, I may end up having a work phone and a separate personal phone.

Re: glad I uninstalled the app

[NagrothAgain]

you can restrict access so they don't see your stuff. you can also selectively allow specific images or folders if you want. I'm sure in a decade Apple will suddenly invent this brand new feature as well.

Re: glad I uninstalled the app

[MobileTatsu-NJG]

Apple copied that feature long ago. Do you trust Google on that feature working exactly as you expect it to? Because I don't trust Apple's intentions or competence. Google wants your data and I have no doubt Apple would take a bribe from Meta.

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[thegarbz]

Umm... don't Android users worry about this from Google? I'm legitimately asking.

Given how apps need to request permission to access files, no.

Time to start photographing my bits

[Tomahawk]

And nothing but my bits!

Just remember

[wakeboarder]

You are nothing but meat to be manipulated by Meta to the tune of 68$/yr https://www.statista.com/stati... [statista.com]

Why you would give Meta access to your full data is beyond me.

I was actually a bit surprised

[rsilvergun]

When my OnePlus 13r did not come with Facebook pre-installed. I understand why companies do that even without a kickback from Facebook. You've got a lot of old grandmas that get confused when the apps they use aren't just there. And confused Grandmas call support and cost a lot of money

But it was nice to see it not there in the first place all the same. Ever since those stories of Facebook getting caught listening through the microphone without you even so much as logging in I have wanted it off my phon

Can’t blame them for asking.

[Smonster]

You rarely get what you don’t ask for, but hell no.

Yes we can blame them for asking

[Inglix the Mad]

In the US we've spent decades creating legal fictions that give corporations as many, more in some ways, rights as people.

Personally speaking it's time to unwind the mess that courts created and return corporations to non-entities. Why? Too many C-Levels (et al.) decided there was no limit and acted like they are above the law. With that being the result, there is only one penalty: Ending this idiocy and making corporate officers responsible for the actions of the corporation. People will screech about t

My "camera roll"

[Anonymous Coward]

Is 35mm film.

Fuuuuck You Zuck

[oh-dark-thirty]

These people have no shame. Why is Facefuck even still a thing? Oh yeah, idiots and scammers and Nazis and fascists. Oh my!