Facebook now wishes to access the photos of your film that you have not yet published, in order to offer creations generated by artificial intelligence (AI), such as collages, summaries or image makeover.
According to Techcrunch, users who use the “Story” functionality see a contextual window asking them to allow “cloud treatment”. By accepting, Facebook will be able to continuously download all of your photos on its servers and use Meta AI to generate personalized content, with themes ranging from birthdays to graduation ceremonies.
Since 2007, Facebook has already been using your publications, photos and public comments to train its AI models. But this new feature goes further, giving Meta full access to your film, including location data and the faces of your loved ones.
For the time being, this test is limited to users in the United States and Canada. But he has already aroused many criticisms on X (formerly Twitter), Bluesky and Reddit, some denouncing an additional step towards intrusion into privacy.
Meta specifies, however, that these photos will not be used for advertising targeting or improving its AI models as part of this test. If you want to deactivate this option after activating it, simply go to the Facebook settings, section “Faith sharing suggestions”, to suspend access or deactivate IA content from your images.
This initiative is part of Facebook’s strategy to seduce a younger audience, while the platform has lost almost 40 % of its adolescent users between 2014 and 2022, a more important decline than on any other social application, including Tumblr.
