There was a similar discussion when facebook started running facial recognition on all pictures.
But is is interesting if the image generators from facebook will be able to generate pictures of non-celebrities just from their name. Although it would be fun to see what the average Joe _actually_ looks like.
The article talks about using images for training. Your scenario would require using both images and names. Is there a reason to believe this is happening?
I don't know what counts as a "reason to believe", but they have the data, users have accepted a TOS that gives Facebook right to use all data, and all things equal, the more you know about a picture, the better training you can do with it.
So for me its more a question of "is there a reason to believe that they are not supplementing photos with other user data"?
But is is interesting if the image generators from facebook will be able to generate pictures of non-celebrities just from their name. Although it would be fun to see what the average Joe _actually_ looks like.