Meta uses photos and videos analyzed by Ray-Ban Meta AI to train its AI models.
Meta could train its AI on any image users let Ray-Ban Meta AI analyze, the company reports to TechCrunch. Only the images that users take but do not have Meta AI analyze would fall under a different policy. This gives the tech giant a rich source of information with which to train its AI models. Yet Meta refers to the Ray Ban Meta AI user interface, which states that Meta handles this data.
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Meta confirms that it can train its AI on any image that users have Ray-Ban Meta AI analyze. TechCrunch asked Meta for a statement. “In locations where multimodal AI is available (currently US and Canada), images and videos shared with Meta AI may be used to enhance it according to our privacy policy,” Emil Vazquez, Meta’s policy communications manager, said in an email to TechCrunch.
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In an earlier email statement to TechCrunch, a Meta spokesperson stated that photos and videos captured by Ray Ban Meta are not used for training AI models. Once users submit media to AI for analysis, those photos belong to a different policy.
Gold mine of information
This gives Meta a great source of information that it can use to make its AI models more powerful. Users may not even be aware that Meta uses their images to train AI models. Yet Meta spokespeople tell us that this is clearly stated in Ray-Ban Meta AI’s user interface.
The privacy policy states, “your interactions with AI functions may be used to train AI models.” Moreover, Meta spokesmen also pointed TechCrunch to Meta AI’s terms of service. This states that if you share images with Meta AI, “you agree that Meta will analyze those images, including facial features, using AI.”
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