Users can choose to accept sharing recommendations, then be suggested posting photos on the News Board or Facebook News along with AI-powered edits. When this feature is enabled, the application will display a notification asking for permission to "cloud processing" to be able to access the photo library on the device. Facebook says AI can come up with ideas like creating collagen photos, summarizing photos, editing in birthday style, or redesigning them with AI.
For AI to work, the Facebook application will continuously Upload images from the user's device to the server. Meta - Facebook's parent company affirmed that this data is not used for advertising purposes and can only be used to improve the AI system if users edit or share the processed photos. Users can turn off this feature at any time in the settings.
According to Meta's AI service terms, when users agree to disable the feature, they allow the AI to analyze the content and face in the photo to "shorten, edit or create new content based on the photo". The system can also use the photo taken date, object or person in the photo to come up with creative ideas - meaning Meta has more data about user behavior, relationships and habits.
Meta has two separate options in the "Camera roll sharing suggestions" section: one that allows AI to suggest photos when users browse the application and the other that allows "cloud processing" to create photos using AI.
The expansion of this feature is considered Meta's new step to strengthen its visual AI capabilities, in the context that the company is taking advantage of a huge data warehouse from Facebook and Instagram to train the AI system to recognize images.
