I recognize that I am the type of person who, between allowing access to the entire photo reel or only a few, I usually choose the first, especially in apps that I use a lot as Instagram. Being able to access the entire reel and not having to take photo photo to photo is more comfortable. Total, if I don’t upload the photos, nobody can see them, right? It is not so clear.
Meta wants the photos that we do not publish
The news comes from TechCrunchwhere a few days ago they told how Facebook had begun to ask users for “cloud processing to obtain creative ideas made for you from your photo reel.” To create those ideas, They choose photos of the reel and upload them to their cloud. In addition, by accepting, he warns us that we also accept the terms and conditions of goal AI, which include the analysis of photos and videos, including the facial characteristics of everyone who appears in them.
From The Vergethey contacted a goal to ask the question that you will surely be doing, and it is if they were using those unpublished photos To train your AI. Goal ensures that not currently, but They do not deny that they can do it in the future. Although for now this novelty only affects users of the United States, it could later reach more countries, so better to be prevented.
Access yes, but better on accusagotas
There are many apps that ask for access to our photos and videos and it is in our hand to decide whether we give them access or not. Both iOS and Android allow Choose what images we want to share with each app. In the case of iOS, it even reminds us periodically if we want to continue sharing our entire reel with certain apps. I am one of those who ignore warnings. Seeing cases like the goal I am clear to me that it is a bad idea.
The option to limit access to photos in iOS (left) and Android (right).
I have begun to limit access in apps that I use daily as Instagram and the truth is that It is not as tedious as I thought At first. When I want to upload something, I just have to give that something and that’s it. In the end it is to add another step, yes, but it is done quickly. If you want to do it you just have to go into adjustments and go to the app you want, for example Instagram and, within the gallery permission, choose ‘limited access’.
The importance of the small print in the AI era
We take care with the photos and videos we share, but we do not think about what happens to everything we do not upload. It is normal, the logical thing is to think that, if you do not click on ‘Share’, no one except you can access that photo. This case shows the importance of reading the small print of apps, something that we are honest, very few people do.
Maybe before it was not so worrying, but in the current context, with so many models, the thing changes. To train those models It takes a lot of content, very much. There has been Many controversies Around this: the use of Content protected with copyright, LinkedIn training its AI with user data almost without warning, AI models that draw platforms like Reddit And even others who train With photos of minors. If it was already convenient to be cautious, now much more.
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