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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 hedora »

msgodel wrote: post #32
aetherspawn wrote: post #29

iOS -> Settings -> Privacy and Security -> Photos -> Facebook -> Set limited access

You'd have to block nearly every app from ever seeing any image you don't want Facebook getting ahold of including apps that are made by other companies. Almost everyone uses their libraries, they practically have a shell on your phone (which is funny because you're not allowed that on your own device for "security.")

As much as I’m annoyed when my iPhone makes me do the dumb “give access to these photos to the app” dance, I’m happy they block that, at least.

However, I wish they’d grow a pair and just outright block the FB and other similar dependencies that make such stuff necessary.

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

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Post by gessha »

ashdksnndck wrote: post #8

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Facebook deserves not only the negative media coverage but a thick antitrust case shattering this demon blood-soaked company into billions of pieces. Since when has Facebook cared about consent? Just look through the recent news about them tracking users on Android, the VPN(s) scandal, psychology experiments, and god knows what else.

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

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Post by ashdksnndck »

eviks wrote: post #69
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

And most people who commented on the article, who presumably got stopped by the paywall. It’s almost like we have a trapped prior that is impairing our ability to interpret new information on this subject.

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

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Post by cornfieldlabs »

xyst wrote: post #70
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.

Facebook marketplace has surprisingly large number of listings and in my country not even dedicated marketplaces can come close

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

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Post by tjpnz »

ethan_smith wrote: post #7
goku12 wrote: post #2

This is truly egregious. Facebook and Instagram are installed by default on many android phones and cannot be fully uninstalled. And even if asked for consent, many people may choose the harmful option by mistake or due to lack of awareness. It's alarming that these companies cannot be held to even the bare minimum standards of ethics. As an aside, there was a discussion a few days back where someone argued that bein…

You can use ADB (Android Debug Bridge) to disable pre-installed Facebook/Instagram apps without root via `pm disable-user` commands, effectively preventing them from running or collecting data.

I don't want their shit on my phone at all. Can I remove it entirely?

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

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Post by tjpnz »

kevingadd wrote: post #9

This seems like a liability nightmare. If they're just scanning all the image files on people's devices and using them for training, they're inevitably going to scoop up nudes without permission, not to mention the occasional CSAM or gore photo, right? Why would you want to risk having stuff like that sneak into your training set when you already have access to all people's public photos?

I doubt anyone who works there would care.

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

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Post by 1vuio0pswjnm7 »

cornfieldlabs wrote: post #64
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

In addition to exporting one's contacts from Facebook in order to import them into an alternative, there should be a way to use whatever is provided through Facebook's "Download your data" to populate new accounts in the new alternative.

Perhaps it already exists but I have thought about writing something that takes what is provided by "Download your data" and produces a local SQLite database, a local webpage, local website or some combination thereof that is served from the user's computer instead of Meta servers.

However I do not use Facebook enough to justify the effort, and when I do I never look at the "feed".

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

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Post by cornfieldlabs »

1vuio0pswjnm7 wrote: post #98
cornfieldlabs wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

In addition to exporting one's contacts from Facebook in order to import them into an alternative, there should be a way to use whatever is provided through Facebook's "Download your data" to populate new accounts in the new alternative. Perhaps it already exists but I have thought about writing something that takes what is provided by "Download your data" and produces a local SQLite database, a local webpage, local…

We don't let anyone find you on the site without your short secret code which they need to ask you for. The code can be changed anytime. You (the user) need to actively ask your friends' code to build up the network. This also keeps the network small since you won't go out of your way to ask someone their code unless you really know them.

A really private place with only people that matter.

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

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Post by ethagnawl »

goku12 wrote: post #2

This is truly egregious. Facebook and Instagram are installed by default on many android phones and cannot be fully uninstalled. And even if asked for consent, many people may choose the harmful option by mistake or due to lack of awareness. It's alarming that these companies cannot be held to even the bare minimum standards of ethics. As an aside, there was a discussion a few days back where someone argued that bein…

This is why I just spent weeks tracking down a modern device that I could vendor unlock and install LineageOS on. It's no longer possible on recent OnePlus devices and many people selling other brands on Swappa and Amazon claim their devices are vendor unlockable when they're actually just carrier unlockable. I don't want any vendor's crapware running on my device. I hate that I "have to" use Google Play to function in the modern world but Lineage and MindTheGapps is at least a less bad way to go.

I should sit down and try something like postmarketOS or Mobian as a portable Linux machine is what I really want ...

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