Meta confirms it may train its AI on any image you ask Ray-Ban Meta AI to analyze
Reading Time: 2 minutesWe 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 say.
In short, any image you share with Meta AI can be used to train its AI.
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.
This is particularly relevant now. On Wednesday, Meta started rolling out new AI features that make it easier for Ray-Ban Meta users to invoke Meta AI in more natural way, meaning users will be more likely to send it new data that can also be used for training. In addition, the company announced a new live video analysis feature for Ray-Ban Meta during its 2024 Connect conference last week, which essentially sends a continuous stream of images into Meta’s multimodal AI models. In a promotional video, Meta said you could use the feature to look around your closet, analyze the whole thing with AI, and pick out an outfit.
What the company doesn’t promote is that you are also sending these images to Meta for model training.
Meta just paid the state of Texas $1.4 billion to settle a court case related to the company’s use of facial recognition software. That case was over a Facebook feature rolled out in 2011 called ‘Tag Suggestions.’ By 2021, Facebook made the feature explicitly opt-in, and deleted billions of people’s biometric information it had collected. Notably, several of Meta AI’s image features are not being released in Texas.
Elsewhere in Meta’s privacy polices, the company states that it also stores all the transcriptions of your voice conversations with Ray-Ban Meta, by default, to train future AI models. As for the actual voice recordings, there is a way to opt-out. When you first login to the Ray-Ban Meta app, users can choose whether voice recordings can be used to train Meta’s AI models.
It’s clear that Meta, Snap, and other tech companies are pushing for smart glasses as a new computing form factor. All of these devices feature cameras that people wear on their face, and they’re mostly powered by AI. This rehashes a ton of privacy concerns we first heard about in the Google Glass era. 404 Media reported that some college students have already hacked the Ray-Ban Meta glasses to reveal the name, address, and phone number of anyone they look at.
Ref: techcrunch
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