We will never repeat it quite often, confidentiality or private life, forget that on social media. Public images are no longer enough for Meta (Facebook) to train its artificial intelligence models, they need private photos … by billions.
This is what we learn by reading the research revealed by TheVerge et TechCrunch.
On Facebook, those who tried to publish content via the functionality ” Story “Have seen a message appear if they wanted to activate the” infonuagic treatment “(cloud) which would allow Facebook to” select media in your image bank and download them regularly to its servers to generate collages, summaries, retouching by AI or themes related to birthdays or degree discounts “.
Meta’s functionality in question
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Facial recognition conditions to accept
By authorizing this functionality, users accept the general conditions of Meta IA which would allow its intelligent programs to analyze “the media and facial features” of these unpublished photos, with the date and presence of other people or objects on them. In addition, depending on the conditions, Meta reserves the right to “keep and use” this personal information.
Meta recently admitted to having recovered data from all content published on Facebook and Instagram since 2007 in order to train its generative AI models. Although the company declared that it has only used publications posted by adult users over the age of 18, it remained vague as to the exact definition of the term “public” and what was considered an “adult user” in 2007.
A waiting feature, according to Meta
Meta told The Verge That, for the moment, this new feature was not used to train its models on your unpublished photos.
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Meta’s official position is that this feature is at its “beginnings”, that it is harmless and entirely optional: “We explore means to facilitate content sharing for Facebook users by testing content suggestions ready to be shared and selected from a person’s film. These suggestions are optional and are only visible by you, unless you decide to share them, and can be disabled at any time.
How to deactivate the functionality on your Facebook account
To deactivate sharing suggestion from your photo film, follow the following steps on your Facebook mobile application:
- Go to parameters and confidentiality in the 3 -bar menu
- Tap parameters and confidentiality
- Then parameters
- Go down to “Sharing suggestions from film” to open this function
- Uncheck the two options present.
