AI Opt-Out Toggles and Meta's 'NameTag' Highlight Growing AI Ethics and Privacy Concerns

A recent Wired essay argues that AI opt-out toggles, now common in services like Samsung Health and Meta Muse, have become a 'dark pattern' that shifts the burden of consent onto users, potentially leaking private data into training corpora. Separately, Wired investigated viral claims about Meta's 'NameTag' face-recognition feature, clarifying its actual capabilities versus social media exaggerations, raising further questions about AI in consumer devices and privacy.