{"id":1465,"date":"2025-10-18T04:15:30","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T00:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/facebooks-new-button-lets-its-ai-look-at-photos-you-havent-uploaded-yet\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T04:15:30","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T00:15:30","slug":"facebooks-new-button-lets-its-ai-look-at-photos-you-havent-uploaded-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/facebooks-new-button-lets-its-ai-look-at-photos-you-havent-uploaded-yet\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook\u2019s new button lets its AI look at photos you haven\u2019t uploaded yet"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Meta has rolled out an opt-in AI feature to its US and Canadian Facebook users that claims to make their photos and videos more \u201cshareworthy.\u201d The only catch is that the feature is designed for your phone\u2019s camera roll \u2014 not <\/em>the media you\u2019ve already uploaded to Facebook. If you opt in, Meta\u2019s AI will comb through your camera roll, upload your unpublished photos<\/em> to Meta\u2019s cloud, and surface \u201chidden gems\u201d that are \u201clost among screenshots, receipts, and random snaps,\u201d the company says. Users will be able to save or share the suggested edits and collages.<\/p>\n

If Facebook wanting to look at your unpublished photos sounds familiar, it might be because we wrote about an early test in June<\/a>. At that time, the company claimed unposted, private photos were not being used to train Meta\u2019s AI, but it declined to rule out whether it would do so in the future.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Well, the future is now, and it sure sounds like Meta wants to train its AI on your photos \u2014 under certain conditions. In the Friday announcement<\/a> of the feature, Meta says, \u201cWe don\u2019t use media from your camera roll to improve AI at Meta, unless you choose to edit this media with our AI tools, or share.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Verge<\/em> asked Meta to confirm: Meta will <\/em>use your camera roll to train its AI if you choose to use this feature, right? We also asked for clarification on when<\/em> Meta begins using your unpublished photos to train its AI. Does it happen when you opt into the new feature? After you choose to edit something with the tool? Or only after you choose to share the resulting creation? <\/p>\n

Meta spokesperson Mari Melguizo sent us the following clarification: \u201cThis means the camera roll media uploaded by this feature to make suggestions won\u2019t be used to improve AI at Meta. Only if you edit the suggestions with our AI tools or publish those suggestions to Facebook, improvements to AI at Meta may be made.\u201d <\/p>\n

So, Meta will collect and store your photos in the cloud and Meta\u2019s AI will get to look at them, but the company won\u2019t use them to train their AI unless you take an additional action \u2014 at least for now, according to Meta. Today, the feature says it will \u201cselect media from your camera roll and upload it to our cloud on an ongoing basis\u201d; in June, Meta told us that it might hold onto some of that data for longer than 30 days. The company claims your media \u201cwon\u2019t be used for ad targeting.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Last year, Meta acknowledged that it had already quietly trained its AI models<\/a> on all public photos and text posted to Facebook and Instagram by adult users since 2007.<\/p>\n

Facebook\u2019s blog today shows that users will be asked if they want to \u201callow cloud processing to get creative ideas made for you from your camera roll.\u201d It\u2019s not yet clear if that prompt will also warn users that the feature may train Meta\u2019s AI on your photos. The company says the feature is meant to help users who enjoy snapping pics but want to improve their photos before posting, or who don\u2019t have time to \u201ccreate something special.\u201d Facebook says it\u2019ll roll out the feature in the coming months.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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