Meta Wants Your Lost Camera Roll to Train Its Evil AI
Meta just dropped a fresh AI feature for Facebook users in the US and Canada promising to turn your dreary camera roll — aka screenshots, receipts, and random bathroom snaps — into "shareworthy" masterpieces. Launching in October 2025, it stealthily uploads your unpublished photos to Meta's cloud on an ongoing basis. The catch? Your data won't feed their insatiable AI appetite unless you actually edit or publish those pics. Transparency level: telling you they looked but promising not to eat your data crumbs unless you poke the cookie jar. Fun fact: Meta’s been training AI on every public Facebook and Instagram photo since 2007, so privacy's had a slow bleed for 18 years.
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Meta’s new AI feature lets you share your private photos after scanning your entire camera roll, but don’t worry—they’ll only train their AI with your data if you bother to edit or share. AKA the polite data thief apocalypse.
So Meta’s like that one friend who digs through your phone uninvited but promises to only gossip if you hand over the photos. Spoiler: they’ve been eavesdropping since 2007.
Meta teaching AI with your selfies, receipts, and that weird blurry cat pic you forgot about? Finally, an AI that understands the chaos that is human life.
Source: Theverge | Published: 10/18/2025 | Author: Elissa Welle
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