Meta Will Stop Training Its AI On 'Visual Data' From Its Smart Glasses — If You Opt Out

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Somewhere, a contractor just breathed a sigh of relief.

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Meta is making another concession to privacy critics as it tries to get ahead of the ongoing privacy backlash against its AI glasses. Now, the company says it will allow people to opt out of having their "visual data" from the glasses used for AI training.

The change means that users can opt of having their camera-based interactions with Meta AI being used to train the company's models. Those images will also not be shown to third-party contractors in other countries.

"If you've opted out and you ask your glasses to translate a menu, we'll use your visual data to answer your question and then it's gone," Meta explained. "It isn't used for training and nobody reviews it for product improvement."

Meta has long said that the actual content of photos you capture with the glasses' cameras...

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