Meta says owners of its AI glasses will be able to opt out of having their camera data used for AI training. That covers any request to Meta AI that uses the camera, like asking what a sign means. Until now those images could be stored, sent to contractors in other countries to be labeled, and used to train Meta's models. Contractors doing that work said earlier this year that they'd seen intimate images. "If you've opted out and you ask your glasses to translate a menu, we'll use your visual data to answer your question and then it's gone," Meta said. The setting covers what the camera sees and nothing else. Your voice requests can still be used for training and review, though you can delete those recordings yourself.
Meta also plans to bring Private Processing to the glasses. It's the encrypted cloud setup Meta built for WhatsApp last year, and it's meant to handle AI requests without Meta being able to read the data. Zuckerberg said on stage it would arrive soon, starting with private translations. Pritam Shah, Meta's director of engineering, told WIRED he has no timeline and no settled list of features. "These are not concrete features coming, but these are some examples," he said.