Facebook Wants ‘Ongoing’ Access to Your Camera Roll for AI Tricks

Facebook is asking users for unfettered access to the phone’s camera roll so it can offer “creative ideas” built with Meta AI.

Starting this week, when users attempt to create a new story in the mobile Facebook app, a pop-up message appears saying:

“Allow cloud processing to get creative ideas made for you from your camera roll.”

Upload to the cloud on an ‘ongoing basis’

Granting access means Facebook will feed your photos to Meta AI (even the pictures you’ve never shared online) for “col