{"id":25212,"date":"2024-09-18T06:10:05","date_gmt":"2024-09-18T14:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2024\/09\/18\/news-18942\/"},"modified":"2024-09-18T06:10:05","modified_gmt":"2024-09-18T14:10:05","slug":"news-18942","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2024\/09\/18\/news-18942\/","title":{"rendered":"Snapchat wants to put your AI-generated face in its ads"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Snapchat is reserving the right to use your selfie images to power Cameos, Generative AI, and other experiences on Snapchat, including ads, according to our friends at 404 Media<\/a>, <\/p>\n

The Snapchat Support page<\/a> about its My Selfie feature says:<\/p>\n

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\u201cYou\u2019ll take selfies with your Snap camera or select images from your camera roll. These images will be used to understand what you look like to enable you, Snap and your friends to generate novel images of you. If you\u2019re uploading images from the camera roll, only add images of yourself.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

A Snapchat spokesperson told 404 Media:<\/p>\n

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\u201cYou are correct that our terms do reserve the right, in the future, to offer advertising based on My Selfies in which a Snapchatter can see themselves in a generated image delivered to them…\u201cAs explained in the onboarding modal, Snapchatters have full control over this, and can turn this on and off in My Selfie Settings at any time.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

However, according to 404 Media the \u201cSee My Selfie in Ads\u201d feature is on by default, so you’d have to know about the feature in the first place in order to turn it off.<\/p>\n

We also wonder how Snapchat plans to check whether the user is uploading real selfies and not pictures of someone else.<\/p>\n

Once again, we see this assumption by a social media platform that it\u2019s OK to use content posted on their platform for training Artificial Intelligence (AI). It isn’t!<\/p>\n

It’s even worse to do it without explicit user consent. Hiding it somewhere deep down in a mountain of legalese called a privacy policy that nobody actually reads is not real consent. This lack of transparency and control over personal data is upsetting. The realization that some individuals may not want their likeness used for commercial purposes or to train systems they don’t support doesn\u2019t seem to bother anyone at these social media giants.<\/p>\n

How to change your My Selfie settings<\/h2>\n

You can change or clear your My Selfie<\/strong> in your Settings<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

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  1. Tap the gear icon \"\u2699\" in My Profile<\/strong> to open Settings<\/strong><\/li>\n
  2. Tap My Selfie<\/strong> under My Account<\/strong><\/li>\n
  3. Tap Update My Selfie<\/strong> or Clear Selfie<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Why AI training on your images is bad<\/h2>\n

    We have seen many cases where social media and other platforms have used the content of their users to train their AI. Some people have a tendency to shrug it off because they don\u2019t see the dangers, but let us explain the possible problems.<\/p>\n