How to stop Meta training its AI models on your smart glasses' visual data
- What changed
- Meta rolled out a setting allowing smart glasses users to opt out of allowing the company to use visual data collected by the devices for AI model training.
- Why you should care
- Users gain direct control over whether smart glasses media is retained and used for model training.
- Your move
- Watch. Monitor how opt-out choices impact hardware feature availability.
- Evidence
- ConfirmedEngadget ↗Engadget ↗Engadget ↗
- What to watch next
- Further disclosures from Meta detailing which specific smart glasses features are disabled when visual data storage is turned off.
- Event
- policy
- Event date
- Sep 25, 2026
- Relevant to
- General AI readers
Supporting sources (2)
- New York Times Cooking is coming to Meta's AI and display glasses
Engadget · secondary
- Meta will stop training its AI on 'visual data' from its smart glasses — if you opt out
Engadget · secondary