The Facebook Setting Quietly Rolling Out That Should Horrify Every Parent
Facebook has already been using your publicly available photos and videos since 2007, but they’re taking the next ghastly step with the new feature being slow-dripped out to users.
Innocently labeled in your camera roll sharing settings as “Get Creative,” (see attached images) users who enable (or don’t disable) this feature is making your entire camera roll available to train Meta AI and allow it to analyze in order to create content for you to post on your page.
This will contribute to the ongoing normalization of pedophilia
If you, like me, are keeping your children’s face offline, or if you don’t mind sharing some images but keep those precious bathtub pics and swimming pics offline because you are aware of the horror that is the ongoing normalization of pedophilia as “just another sexual identity like any other,” you should run to your settings immediately.
If you’re skeptical, I promise this isn’t one of those “Facebook will take your data if you don’t copy/paste this message” chain mails. This is a real setting already available on some accounts (like mine!) right now and will be made widely available in a slow roll-out manner alongside other innocuous features such as cutesy fonts.
From PC Magazine:
Facebook users trying to use its "Story" feature are being asked to opt into "cloud processing" via a pop-up, TechCrunch reports. If you click "Allow," Facebook will be able to generate and suggest new content - including things like collages, recaps, Al re-stylings, or themes like "birthdays or graduations" - based on what's inside your camera roll.
But approving the request means Facebook will upload photos from your camera roll to Meta's servers on an "ongoing basis" to be processed. According to Meta Al's Terms of Service, once you agree, Meta can analyze everything from the facial data of your friends and family to the location where your snaps were taken.
Someone tell the grandparents
Not only do you need to turn this invasive setting off on your phone, but you need to make aware anyone who receives pictures of your children. When I first learned of this a few days ago, I immediately reached out to all grandparents. Of the four with Facebook, three already had this setting available. There’s no rhyme or reason to when the setting becomes available to which people, so anyone who you trust to have pictures of your children needs to know.
In case you’re unaware, those in the “pedophilia is normal, don’t shame them” camp agree that using AI generated images of children to satisfy their desires is a “safe” way to allow these people the “dignity” of their sexual identity. They’re not “real children,” these proponents argue, and therefore no harm, no foul.
It should be no surprise to you that many of these pedophilia normalizers are childless virtue signalers who live separate from the impact of their ideals and should not be trusted as a reliable source you use to make decisions about what images you do and do not use online.
Many of these pedo monsters already photoshop publicly available images of children’s faces on to other pictures which would make any sane person wither away in horror. And you should see the accounts which, according to Meta, do not violate the policies on child exploitation. Now imagine someone sitting in their home generating images to their exact liking using your child’s likeness. I shudder to even think of such an atrocity.
Children deserve better
As an adult, I can consent to my image being shared, I’m the one who posts the photo, uploads the video, and writes the captions, thereby incurring the risk of my images being reused for God knows what. Children cannot consent to any such thing, nor can even the older ones understand how far reaching the implications are for agreeing when you ask, “ can Mommy post this picture of you?”
Share your children if you want, but this setting allows even the images you choose not to share to train their AI and many AIs are training others.
Protecting children includes protecting teens
Sexploitation is at an all-time high. Your teens almost assuredly have incriminating photos and videos on their phones that you and they do not want Al or anyone else having access to. I know Facebook isn't popular with teens but that doesn't mean it isn't being used. Talk to them about the implications of this new feature and caution them with direct steps to take when this feature becomes available to their account.
AI isn’t going anywhere, but you don’t have to happily walk yourself and your children into its salivating jaws
Attached images show where in your settings you can go to turn off these options and if this option is not yet available on your account, you can regularly check back or regularly go to your story to upload to see if you get the pop-up asking you to opt-in to “cloud processing.”