In a blog post on Tuesday, Meta announced the release of an AI image generator called Muse Image, along with an as-yet unreleased video generator called Muse Video. Elon Musk’s X rolled out something very much like this image generator, which features social media integration, about two years ago, and OpenAI released its video generator via the Sora social media app in September of last year. So I guess from a certain standpoint, a social media slop generator from Meta is long overdue. Then again, OpenAI announced it was killing Sora this past March, before pivoting its company’s entire focus. Meanwhile X’s integration of Grok images hasn’t gone all that well either. In case you blocked out this memory, during this past holiday season it became a meme on X to ask Grok to generate sexualized images of people, including minors. You might assume Meta would not want this to be in any way reminiscent of those past AI social media products, but you would be wrong. Muse Image pulls information from your Instagram. If you’re in a browser, the cleanest way to see it in action is to go to the Meta AI web app at meta.ai, log in using your Instagram account, and ask the chatbot interface to generate a picture of yourself.