Meta has rolled out an artificial intelligence feature for its Facebook users in the US and Canada that it claims makes their photos and videos «share-worthy.»
Meta has rolled out an artificial intelligence feature for its Facebook users in the US and Canada that it claims makes their photos and videos «share-worthy.»
But, as The Verge writes, the main caveat is that this feature is designed for your phone’s photo gallery, not for media files you’ve already uploaded to Facebook.
So, if you subscribe to this feature, Meta’s AI will scan your photo album, upload your unpublished photos to the Meta cloud, and discover «hidden gems» that are «lost among screenshots, receipts, and random snapshots.»
This topic has already been discussed in the media in the past: in June, Meta admitted that Facebook would view users' unpublished photos, but the company assured that such content would not be used to train Meta’s artificial intelligence (although it did not rule out doing so in the future).
So the publication concludes that such a «future has already arrived,» and it looks like «Meta wants to train its artificial intelligence on your photos.»
The Verge asked Meta to confirm this assumption, but the company said that Meta will collect and store your photos in the cloud, and Meta’s artificial intelligence will be able to view them, but the company will not use them to train its artificial intelligence unless the user takes additional action to do so.
Facebook’s blog post states that users will be asked if they want to «allow cloud processing to generate creative ideas from your photos.»
dev.ua also reported that Meta is testing an old idea again — posting job openings on Facebook. The feature, which the social network first launched in 2017 but shut down less than five years later, is returning in a new format.
