The ‘Big’ reason why you must carefully read Facebook and Instagram’s terms and conditions

After years of training its generative AI models on billions of public images from Facebook and Instagram, Meta is reportedly seeking access to billions of photos users haven’t publicly uploaded, sparking fresh privacy debates. While the social media giant explicitly states it is not currently training its AI models on these private photos, the company has declined to clarify whether it might do so in the future or what rights it will hold over these images, a report has said.

The new initiative, first reported by TechCrunch on Friday (June 27) sees Facebook users encountering pop-up messages when attempting to post to Stories. These prompts ask users to opt into “cloud processing,” which would allow Facebook to “select media from your camera roll and upload it to our cloud on a regular basis.”