We recently asked Meta if it trains AI on photos and videos that users take on the Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses. The company originally didn't have much to

In a previous emailed statement, a spokesperson clarified that photos and videos captured on Ray-Ban Meta are not used by Meta for training as long as the user doesn’t submit them to AI. However, once you ask Meta AI to analyze them, those photos fall under a completely different set of policies.

In other words, the company is using its first consumer AI device to create a massive stockpile of data that could be used to create ever-more powerful generations of AI models. The only way to “opt out” is to simply not use Meta’s multimodal AI features in the first place.

  • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppetEnglish
    10•5 days ago

    This is what’s baffling. How TF is it legal for them to do whatever they want with my personage because someone I’ve never met before signed a ToS without reading it?

    • @tabrisEnglish
      4•5 days ago

      This is how Facebook has operated for well over a decade now, they have profiles and data on many people who don’t use Facebook and they’ve gotten away with it, so why would they stop now.