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Image Credits:<\/strong>screenshot of Facebook’s app, June 2025<\/p>\nThe message also notes that only you can see the suggestions, and the media isn\u2019t used for ad targeting. <\/p>\n
However, by tapping \u201cAllow,\u201d you are agreeing to Meta\u2019s AI Terms of Service<\/a>. This allows your media and facial features to be analyzed by AI, it says. The company will additionally use the date and presence of people or objects in your photos to craft its creative ideas.<\/p>\n The creative tool is another example of the slippery slope that comes with sharing our personal media with AI providers. Like other tech giants, Meta has grand AI ambitions. Being able to tap into the personal photos users haven\u2019t yet shared on Facebook\u2019s social network could give the company an advantage in the AI race. <\/p>\n Unfortunately for end users, in tech companies\u2019 rush to stay ahead, it\u2019s not always clear what they\u2019re agreeing to when features like this appear.<\/p>\n According to Meta\u2019s AI Terms around image processing, \u201conce shared, you agree that Meta will analyze those images, including facial features, using AI. This processing allows us to offer innovative new features, including the ability to summarize image contents, modify images, and generate new content based on the image,\u201d the text states.<\/p>\n The same AI terms also give Meta\u2019s AI the right to \u201cretain and use\u201d any personal information you\u2019ve shared in order to personalize its AI outputs. The company notes that it can review your interactions with its AI, including conversations, and those reviews may be conducted by humans. The terms don\u2019t define what Meta considers personal information, beyond saying it includes \u201cinformation you submit as Prompts, Feedback, or other Content.\u201d<\/p>\n We have to wonder whether the photos you\u2019ve shared for \u201ccloud processing\u201d also count here.<\/p>\n So far, there hasn\u2019t been much backlash about this feature. A handful of Facebook users have stumbled<\/a> across the AI-generated photo suggestions when creating a new story and raised questions about it. For instance, one user on Reddit<\/a> found that Facebook had pulled up an old photo (in this case, one that had previously been shared to the social network) and automatically turned it into an anime using Meta AI.<\/p>\n When another user in an anti-AI Facebook group asked for help shutting this feature off<\/a>, the search led to a section called camera roll sharing suggestions in the app\u2019s Settings.<\/p>\n We also found this feature under Facebook\u2019s Settings, where it\u2019s listed in the Preferences section. <\/p>\n On the \u201cCamera roll sharing suggestions\u201d page, there are two toggles. The first lets Facebook suggest photos from your camera roll when browsing the app. The second (which should be opt-in based on the pop-up that requested permission in Stories) is where you could enable or disable the \u201ccloud processing,\u201d which lets Meta make AI images using your camera roll photos. <\/p>\n This additional access to use AI on your camera roll\u2019s photos does not appear to be new. <\/p>\n We found posts from earlier this year where confused Facebook users were sharing screenshots of the pop-up message that appeared in their Stories section. Meta has also published complete Help Documentation<\/a> about the feature for both iOS and Android users.<\/p>\n Meta\u2019s AI terms have been enforceable as of June 23, 2024; we can\u2019t compare the current AI terms with older versions because Meta doesn\u2019t keep a record, and previously published terms haven\u2019t been properly saved by the Internet Archive\u2019s Wayback Machine.<\/p>\n Since this feature dips into your camera roll, however, it extends beyond what Meta had previously announced, in terms of training<\/a> its AI on your publicly shared data, including posts and comments on Facebook and Instagram. (EU users had until May 27, 2025<\/a>, to opt out<\/a>.)<\/p>\n Reached for comment, Meta spokesperson Maria Cubeta confirmed the feature is a test, saying, \u201cWe\u2019re exploring ways to make content sharing easier for people on Facebook by testing suggestions of ready-to-share and curated content from a person\u2019s camera roll.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThese suggestions are opt-in only and only shown to you \u2013 unless you decide to share them \u2013 and can be turned off at any time,\u201d she continued. \u201cCamera roll media may be used to improve these suggestions, but are not used to improve AI models in this test.\u201d<\/p>\n The company is currently testing suggestions in the U.S. and Canada. <\/p>\n Updated after publication with Facebook\u2019s comments. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Facebook is asking users for access to their phone\u2019s camera roll to automatically suggest AI-edited versions of their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137126,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3163],"tags":[323,1942,600,26006,6512,53,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-220354","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-facebook","11":"tag-meta-ai","12":"tag-privacy","13":"tag-technology","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_1560.jpg\")
Image Credits:<\/strong>screenshot from ‘Seasons of Jason’ on Mastodon (opens in a new window)<\/a><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/camera-roll-cloud-processing.png\")
Image Credits:<\/strong>screenshot of Facebook’s app, June 2025<\/p>\n