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Meta confirms it may train its AI on any image you ask Ray-Ban Meta AI to analyze | TechCrunch

techcrunch.com Meta won't say whether it trains AI on smart glasses photos | TechCrunch

Update: Meta responded to TechCrunch with more information about when it trains AI on Ray-Ban Meta photos, and when it doesn't. You can read about that

Meta won't say whether it trains AI on smart glasses photos | TechCrunch

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.

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