Sam Harradine | Facebook Group & Community Expert
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Sam Harradine | Facebook Group & Community Expert
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META / Facebook Certified Community Expert | Sharing tips & strategies to help you grow an engaged, profitable Facebook group for your business.





FACEBOOK FEEDS AI WITH USERS’ UNPUBLISHED PHOTOS... PRIVATE IMAGES AT RISK Meta is now training its AI using not just public Facebook and Instagram posts, but also users’ private, unpublished photos. New pop-ups ask users to opt into “cloud processing,” allowing Meta to upload images from your camera roll and analyze faces, dates, and even objects in the pictures. Accepting this means Meta’s AI can “retain and use” that information. Unlike Google, which says it does not use personal Google Photos data for AI, Meta’s terms remain unclear. The company admits it’s scraped content since 2007, but won’t specify what counts as “public” or if “cloud-processed” photos are exempt. There’s a way to turn off the setting in Facebook’s options, which removes cloud-stored photos after 30 days. Still, the new feature means users’ private moments can be used for AI, often without them realizing it. Some are already reporting AI suggestions for previously-uploaded images. Sources: TechCrunch, The Verge

🚨META’S “VERIFIED” USERS GET BOOTED BY THE VERY ROBOTS THEY PAID FOR Meta hyped its Verified plan on Facebook and Instagram as your golden ticket to perks, safety, and real humans helping you when tech goes haywire. Instead, folks who ponied up cash are getting booted off their accounts with zero explanation and even less help from Meta’s customer service, which seems about as real as a unicorn. Turns out Meta’s AI is busy swinging its digital ban hammer like a toddler with a lightsaber, nuking legit businesses who suddenly can’t reach customers or access years of saved content. Funny how the company selling “verification” can’t actually figure out who’s real, leaving paying users broke, locked out, and screaming into the void. Source: News18










