Meta has rolled out an AI subscription feature for Facebook users in the US and Canada that it claims makes their photos and videos more “shareworthy.” The only problem is that the feature is designed for your phone’s camera roll – no Media you have already uploaded to Facebook. If you subscribe, Meta’s AI will comb through your camera roll and upload it Your unpublished photos “to the meta cloud, and show ‘hidden gems’ that are ‘lost among screenshots, receipts, and random snapshots,'” the company says. Users will be able to save or share suggested edits and collages.
If Facebook’s desire to see your unpublished photos sounds familiar, it might be because we wrote about an early test in June. At the time, the company claimed that private, unpublished images were not used to train Meta’s AI, but declined to rule out whether it would do so in the future.
Well, the future is now, and it certainly sounds like Meta would like to train its AI on your photos – under certain conditions. in Friday announcement About this feature, Meta says: “We don’t use media from your camera roll to enhance Meta’s AI, unless you choose to edit that media using our AI tools, or share it.”
Edge He asked Meta to confirm: Meta will Use your camera roll to train its AI if you choose to use this feature, right? We also requested clarification regarding when Meta starts using your unpublished photos to train its AI. Does this happen when I subscribe to the new feature? After you choose to edit something with the tool? Or only after you choose to share the resulting creation?
Meta spokesperson Marie Milgoeso sent us the following clarification: “This means that camera roll media uploaded by this feature to provide suggestions will not be used to improve Meta’s AI. Only if you edit suggestions using our AI tools or post these suggestions to Facebook may improvements be made to Meta’s AI.”
So, Meta will collect your photos and store them in the cloud and Meta’s AI will look at them, but the company won’t use them to train its AI unless it takes additional action — at least for now, according to Meta. Today, the feature says it will “select media from your camera roll and upload it to our cloud on an ongoing basis”; In June, Meta told us that it may retain some of this data for longer than 30 days. The company claims that your media “will not be used to target ads.”
Last year, Meta admitted that it had already quietly trained its AI models on all public images and text posted on Facebook and Instagram by adult users since 2007.
Today’s Facebook blog post shows that users will be asked if they want to “allow cloud processing to get creative ideas made for you from your camera roll.” It’s not yet clear whether this prompt will also warn users that the feature may be training Meta’s AI on your photos. The company says this feature is intended to help users who enjoy taking photos but want to improve their photos before publishing, or who don’t have time to “create something special.” Facebook says it will roll out the feature in the coming months.