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Digital Camera World
Digital Camera World
Mike Harris

If the Facebook app wants Meta’s AI to access my iPhone's camera roll, I might just delete it in protest

Many images of yellow fields in iPhone camera role with blue ticks .

A Facebook pop-up is asking whether or not the user wants to: “Allow cloud processing to get creative ideas made for you from your camera roll?” According to TechCrunch, the notification appears when you create a new story on the Facebook app. However, having fired up the app myself, I’m not currently receiving the notification.

The pop-up continues to state: “To create ideas for you, we’ll select media from your camera roll and upload it to our cloud on an ongoing basis (...) Only you can see suggestions. Your media won’t be used for ads targeting.” But as TechCrunch points out, you’re also agreeing to Meta’s AI Terms, which appear to contradict the above, somewhat. Specifically, the Image Processing section states: “This processing allows us to offer innovative new features (...) and generate new content based on the image.”

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