PSA: Meta (Facebook) is offering a new “feature” where it asks you if you want to opt into “cloud processing”. If you say yes, you’ll be giving it permission to upload your entire camera roll and use AI on them to make suggested posts.
I’m just spitballing here, but I’m pretty sure most of y’all would not want to give Facebook all of your photos to use with their AI.
Y'all are here on mastodon. So go post this on Facebook
And I'm pretty sure the folks on Facebook have no issues whatsoever with this. That's why they are still on Facebook
👆 Hey y'all, here's the latest in a long series of warnings that you must be deliberately ignoring if you're still using fucking facebook in july of goddam 2025.
We know from recent revelations about #meta actively building code into #Facebook and #Instagram to work around privacy setting, that they do ANYTHING to exploit their products ( aka 'users' ). If they explicitly claim they won't, we should rather be deeply worried, that they'll try to get those pictures even without consent :
"While it claims that the images won't be used for ad targeting, it still doesn't make us feel particularly good."
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