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

Post by squigz » Sat, Jun 28, 2025, 7:28 AM UTC

bojan wrote: post #148

microtonal wrote: post #137

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Basically every kindergarten, primary school and high school will want to post pictures. Here (NL) we get a form at the beginning of each school year to mark which uses of photos we find acceptable. E.g. we allow photos in the school portal (which is private and not owned by big tech), but not on Facebook, etc. It's the way it should be done, because there is not much burden on the parents. If the school also wants t…

Our (NL) elementary school places pictures of the fun activities they do with kids on Instagram, but they blur children's faces, resulting in the photos straight out of the uncanny valley. I do wonder also if the blur effect they use is one of those that can easily be reversed. I need to check that one of these days.

Post by squigz » Sat, Jun 28, 2025, 7:32 AM UTC

ejstronge wrote: post #138

ipsum2 wrote: post #89

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I imagine many people will react only to the headline and not read the article, but: "Meta tells The Verge that, for now, it’s not training on your unpublished photos with this new feature. “[The Verge’s headline] implies we are currently training our AI models with these photos, which we aren’t. This test doesn’t use people’s photos to improve or train our AI models,” As someone who is familiar with the ML space, it…

> I imagine many people will react only to the headline and not read the article [...] I saw this line in the article: "Meta tells The Verge that it’s not currently training its AI models on those photos, but it would not answer our questions about whether it might do so in future, or what rights it will hold over your camera roll images." It would seem important to share this with people who may 'not read the articl…

Post by [deleted] » Sat, Jun 28, 2025, 7:47 AM UTC

msgodel wrote: post #34

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.

From the very beginning Facebook has been an AI wearing your friends as a skinsuit. People are only just starting to notice now.

Post by abhinavk » Sat, Jun 28, 2025, 8:03 AM UTC

deadbabe wrote: post #67

Would it be any better if Facebook hired photographers to walk around cities and major events and just photograph random people doing stuff? AI will get hungrier.

Post by AStonesThrow » Sat, Jun 28, 2025, 8:07 AM UTC

windex wrote: post #158

zuck needs to fade into irrelevance. The guy hasnt done anything interesting in years. Every few years he raids private data and thinks he can do something with it.