Watch out your Ray-Ban smart glasses photos are helping to train Meta AI

Date:
Mon, 07 Oct 2024 11:55:30 +0000

Description:
Meta admits to using images you take with your Ray-ban Meta smart glasses to train its AI.

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If you use your Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses all the time you might want to be careful of what you're snapping pictures of, and what you're asking Meta AI, through them, as Meta has confirmed that it may use these visual and audio inputs to train its smart assistant.

Thats by its own admission, in a statement it sent to TechCrunch in which Metas policy communications manager Emil Vazquez explained that Images and videos shared with Meta AI may be used to improve it per our Privacy Policy.

Its worth highlighting that Meta only trains its AI on images and videos that you share with it such as through the Look and Ask feature which has the glasses take a picture which it uses to contextualize a request like Look and tell more about this landmark or Look and translate this sign.

So if you live in an area that doesnt yet have access to Meta AI (i.e.
outside the US and Canada) or you simply never interact with the Ray-Ban
smart glasses AI analysis tools, then your snaps should be staying private; that is, unless you post the image on Facebook or Instagram and you live in a region where Meta now has permission to trains its AI on your posts .

Unfortunately theres no way to use the AI image analysis and also keep your submitted pictures private. You have to consent to sharing your images to opt in to the feature, and you cant currently opt out beyond stopping using AI analysis. Not the biggest surprise

While I feel that theres something distinctly off-putting about Meta using my pictures to train its AI, this news isnt all that surprising. Other AI creators openly train their assistants on user inputs, and given how much Google and Apple have hyped up the privacy of their own on-device AI the Ray-Ban glasses reliance on a cloud-based AI is clearly going to involve the sharing of data.

Also for anyone confused about me saying my snaps have probably trained Metas AI, even though I live in the UK I have access to Meta AI on my Ray-Bans (somehow, I think it might have something to do with my VPN) Ive used it quite a lot, so Ive likely also agreed to the Privacy Policy giving Meta permission to use my submitted images for training purposes.

I guess the difference between using, say, ChatGPT to analyze an image and using the glasses is that you arent always wearing ChatGPT on your face. Even with all the safeguards you can turn the glasses off completely with an on-device switch, and the AI only uses the images you choose to feed it I feel this news still adds another layer of concern for users. The Meta Orion AR glasses (Image credit: Meta)

And for smart glasses like the newly announced Meta Orion AR glasses to take off, these layers need to be peeled back not added to. Because while most of us do carry around much of the same tech now in smartphones, theres a big psychological difference between a handset and something youre always
wearing.

Its also becoming easier to activate the AI with more natural speech. While this is handy for people who want to use the Meta assistant, it does open up the possibility that people may share images that didnt intend to if they arent careful.

Well have to see what measures Meta introduces to better alert users about
how their data is used by AI and perhaps offer more comprehensive opt-out options that dont strip away functionality. For now, we recommend being a little more careful what you share with your Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses, and other AI for that matter, as it might not be as private a conversation as you thought. You might also like I tried the Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses' newest
AI features And its gone discontinued Meta Quest 3 model already selling out online Metas game-changing Orion AR glasses could launch sooner than we thought



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Link to news story: https://www.techradar.com/computing/artificial-intelligence/watch-out-your-ray -ban-smart-glasses-photos-are-helping-to-train-meta-ai


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