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Facebook is asking to use Meta AI on photos you haven’t yet shared

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Re: Facebook is asking to use Meta AI on photos you haven’t yet shared

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Post by dzhiurgis »

zhivota wrote: post #26
sebmellen wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Since Facebook is pulling from the camera roll, not posting is not an adequate defense.

Only logical thing to do personally is to take it completely off your mobile devices. You still get caught in the dragnet if you have friends and family posting you. Also in many places WhatsApp is practically a requirement for daily life which is frustrating. What I need is some kind of restricted app sandbox in which to place untrustworthy apps, they see a fake filesystem, fake system calls, etc.

Caught in what tho?

Re: Facebook is asking to use Meta AI on photos you haven’t yet shared

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Post by phyzix5761 »

qntmfred wrote: post #57
mitthrowaway2 wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Some cultures long avoided being photographed, because they believed the camera would steal their soul. It took the rest of us much longer to realize they were right.

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Maybe they mean identity by soul which is kind of what's happening here.

Re: Facebook is asking to use Meta AI on photos you haven’t yet shared

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Post by dzhiurgis »

bnjms wrote: post #36
dangus wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Recent iOS versions have granular controls over library access to prevent this.

It isn’t nice to use though. You select your picture then when you need to add more you’ve got to go back into the settings for that app and select the picture. Then add the picture you selected. I’m grateful though. We would have called meta malware back when.

I try to use web versions of everything (fb, insta, x). If it’s shitty enough I’ll use it less.

I.e. messenger.com is possible to use if you request desktop version, change font size and deal with all sort of zoom issues. Of course fb doesn’t support actual calls or notifications just because, so I don’t use it.

Instagram is even sneakier - you can’t post stories via mobile to “close friends”, post videos or view them from instant messages.

Re: Facebook is asking to use Meta AI on photos you haven’t yet shared

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Post by cornfieldlabs »

coef2 wrote: post #16

I miss the old days when Facebook was simply a fun way to reconnect with friend and family who lived far away. Unfortunately, those days are gone. It feels like an over engineered attention-hogging system that collects a large amount of data and risks people's mental health along the way.

I am building one with a chronological feed and no public profiles.

You need to already know someone to find them here.

Check out the waitlist!

https://waitlist-tx.pages.dev/

Edit:

Here are some rough layout designs https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1uLwnXDdUsC9hMZBa1ysR...

It's intentionally simple

Re: Facebook is asking to use Meta AI on photos you haven’t yet shared

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Post by dzhiurgis »

toofy wrote: post #4

how long until we find out that the brand new government/palantir deal is using these photos as well against citizens? i give it a year or less.

If you have so much trouble government I don’t think deleting facebook will change anything.

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Post by eviks »

ashdksnndck wrote: post #8

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> The Verge’s clickbait headline makes it sound like Facebook is using private photos without the user’s knowledge/consent.

Nah, that's the company's reputation that appends malice in your mind to an innocent headline

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Post by xyst »

coef2 wrote: post #16

I miss the old days when Facebook was simply a fun way to reconnect with friend and family who lived far away. Unfortunately, those days are gone. It feels like an over engineered attention-hogging system that collects a large amount of data and risks people's mental health along the way.

These days I treat Facebook as a marketplace for offloading lightly used items.

Social media is dead to me.

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