Meta Sued for Allegedly Harvesting Photos to Train AI and Face Recognition
Wired AI · rss · 2026-09-12
A proposed class action alleges Meta illegally harvested users' Facebook and Instagram photos to train its AI image-generation models and to build its unreleased "NameTag" face recognition feature, per Wired.
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