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The proposed class action alleges Meta illegally harvested people’s Facebook and Instagram photos to train its AI image-generation models and to build its unreleased “NameTag” face recognition feature.

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The proposed class action alleges Meta illegally harvested people’s Facebook and Instagram photos to train its AI image-generation models and to build its unreleased “NameTag” face recognition feature.
Andrew Couts
NEW: Meta is being sued in a proposed class action, which claims the company illegally trained its AI image makers and unreleased NameTag face-recognition system on people FB and Insta photos. @dmehro.bsky.social reports below. Our June report the suit cites here: www.wired.com/story/meta-s...
Dhruv Mehrotra
NEW: Meta is facing a proposed class action alleging it used Facebook and Insta photos to build its NameTag face-recognition system and train AI models without consent. WIRED found code for NameTag hidden inside Meta’s AI app downloaded by tens of millions. Meta said the feature “doesn’t exist.”
Katie Drummond
An entire class action lawsuit for a feature that Meta claims "doesn't exist"...interesting!