Yup. Last year some Harvard students put together a demo where they used Meta's smart glasses and commercial apps to scan people's faces, find their social media profiles, and summarize info about them, like where they live, work, their phone numbers, and names of their relatives in real time.

every time you go outside.

You guys go outside? /j

But your likeness does belong to you. Try making money off of an AI movie featuring Taylor Swift.

You're talking about the American concept of having no privacy in public. Not all countries are like that.

Your face being outside isn't your "facial data". It has to at least have that image, sure, in good enough quality, easy enough, linked to any piece of your identity, e.g. name or security number. If you just walk around and people take photo of your face, they don't have your "facial data". That's the entire reason why reverse image search and similar services exist. It is NOT an easy problem technically speaking.

I suppose I'll accept it and just start pushing forward with setting fires. 🔥

And what if there's no photograph of myself online?

They do, but even if they didn't AI companies are going take them anyway. Bots make up 50% of internet traffic. AI companies have ignored robot.txt entries. Anything publicly available, even if it's behind a password, is accessible since companies like Reddit sell that information.

Honestly giving up is reasonable. We need EVERYONE to respect privacy for this whole thing to work.

You could be the most privacy focused individual and your mom's facebook page would still have your graduation picture with name of the highschool you went and your home address in the back somewhere.

Pff it's easy
Cut contact with all friends and family, get plastic surgery, live as a hermit in the mountains

It's cleverly addressing a valid point. If your face is visible on the internet it can be used in an ai database without your consent. That's just where we're at.