How to stop Meta training its AI models on your smart glasses' visual data

The setting affects whether workers can review photos and videos from your glasses. How to stop Meta training its AI models on your smart glasses’ visual data. Big Tech Meta How to stop Meta training its AI models on your smart glasses’ visual data The setting affects whether workers can review photos and videos from your glasses.

The setting is now available within the Meta AI app. The company has begun notifying glasses owners about the change with a pop-up in the Meta AI app. "Your Al glasses can translate a menu, identify a plant and more," it says.

"You can opt out of providing visual data from these experiences to Meta for product improvement. If you opt out, that data isn’t stored after processing." The notification directs users to the relevant settings page, but you can also find it directly by navigating to the settings for your glasses, selecting "Meta AI" and scrolling down to "store visual data from AI experiences." You’ll need to have your glasses out of their case and connected to your phone to change the setting. If you have multiple pairs of glasses, you’ll need to repeat this step for each pair.

Meta Opting out may prevent you from being able to use certain features with the glasses, Meta says.