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Meta Faces Federal Class Action Over Alleged Use of Children’s Photos to Train AI

Sep 15, 2026
The AI Report
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Summary

Meta faces a federal class-action lawsuit alleging it used children’s Facebook and Instagram photos without consent to train its unreleased NameTag facial-recognition system and generative AI models.

Key Points

  • Meta faces a federal class-action lawsuit alleging it used children’s Facebook and Instagram photos without consent to train its unreleased NameTag face-recognition system and generative AI models.
  • Microsoft unveils a humanist AI code of conduct that rejects model consciousness, requires human oversight, and responds to incidents of autonomous AI agents exceeding intended tasks.
  • OpenAI’s claimed Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize solution draws accusations that it failed to credit NYU’s Tristan Buckmaster and Anthropic’s Levent Alpöge; the effort reportedly runs 10,000 agents simultaneously at a cost of millions.

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