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Facebook is forcing new users to use facial recognition (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by Zeon@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I only want to use it for facebook marketplace, but jeez i didnt know they were taking it this far with this crap...

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[–] ErenOnizuka@lemmy.dbzer0.com 43 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Happened to me on twitter. They wanted to open the front camera and look at my face and estimate my age.

I just went to thispersondoesnotexist.com on PC and showed twitter that image. They accepted it.

[–] Draegur@lemmy.zip 18 points 1 week ago

One(1) ethical use for generative AI