Digital 1984 Dystopia Has Officially Arrived
Facebook’s New AI Tool Asks to Upload Your Photos for Story Ideas, Sparking Privacy Concerns
The Hacker News reports:
Facebook, the social network platform owned by Meta, is asking for users to upload pictures from their phones to suggest collages, recaps, and other ideas using artificial intelligence (AI), including those that have not been directly uploaded to the service.
According to TechCrunch, which first reported the feature, users are being served a new pop-up message asking for permission to “allow cloud processing” when they are attempting to create a new Story on Facebook.
“To create ideas for you, we’ll select media from your camera roll and upload it to our cloud on an ongoing basis, based on info like time, location or themes,” the company notes in the pop-up. “Only you can see suggestions. Your media won’t be used for ads targeting. We’ll check it for safety and integrity purposes.”
Should users consent to their photos being processed on the cloud, Meta also states that they are agreeing to its AI terms, which allow it to analyze their media and facial features.
