Go to your profile in the Instagram app and open the hamburger menu in the top right corner. Scroll down to “sharing and reuse,” then toggle off the sliders for “allow people to create with and reuse your content” for Posts and Reels. Then, below that, also turn off “allow people to create and reuse your original audio on Meta AI.” [Image: https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/07/Screenshot_20260708-145327.png?quality=90&strip=all]

As part of Meta’s Muse Image model rollout, Instagram users with public accounts need to opt out to block AI generations of their content.

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Go to your profile in the Instagram app and open the hamburger menu in the top right corner. Scroll down to “sharing and reuse,” then toggle off the sliders for “allow people to…

Meta's new Muse Image AI lets Instagram users share and modify other people's public posts, sparking privacy concerns about content reuse.

Meta's new Muse Image tool lets anyone generate AI images of you from your public Insta profile. You won't be notified, and it's on by default.

Any public Instagram account is fair game to be used for AI generation with Meta's new Muse Image.

Meta's new AI image tool automatically uses public Instagram photos unless you opt out.

Meta this week launched its own AI image model integrated into the Instagram app. While this might sound useful, it...

Meta's new AI image generator is using your public Instagram photos unless you opt out. Here's how to do that.

Meta's new AI image generator allows anyone to use photos from public Instagram accounts — uneless you opt out.

Public accounts of people over 18 have been opted-in to the programme by default.

Meta is now allowing anyone to use Instagram photos on public accounts to generate AI images, unless users take action and opt out.

Meta's new Muse Image AI can use public Instagram photos for remixing and generating AI images. Here's how to prevent it from using your photos:

Meta AI joined the image generation space this week. However, it did so with a controversial default setting that users...

Earlier this week, Meta unveiled its Muse AI photo and video tools, which allowed users to tag other accounts on Instagram to reference their work, unless the other user opted out.

“We’ve heard the feedback that this feature missed the mark.”

Meta has backed down on a controversial feature that allowed people's public Instagram posts to be used by anyone for AI generation.

Adam Mosseri emphasizes user choice, suggesting those who dislike AI content should remove it from their Instagram feed while advocating transparency.