Facebook's parent company Meta has announced that it is officially pulling back a controversial artificial intelligence (AI) feature that allowed users to generate custom images using photos from public Instagram accounts. The social media giant has openly admitted that the tool’s design and privacy settings heavily miscalculated public sentiment.

Meta’s latest AI image generation feature raises serious privacy concerns by automatically allowing public Instagram profiles to be used in AI-generated images unless users…

Users need to change their settings to protect some of their content

Meta introduces Muse Image AI model, allowing users to create visuals with AI prompts. Critics warn of privacy risks.

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

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

“This is the sort of setting that should absolutely be opt-in for Instagram users,” Electronic Frontier Foundation analyst Thorin Klosowski said.

Instagram users should check privacy settings after rollout of new Meta AI image generator, advocates warn

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

Meta’s rollout of the Muse Image model was eclipsed by widespread user anger over a new feature enabling users to instantly turn public photos and other people’s media into AI…

The backlash highlights a core AI-era fight of opt in vs. opt out.

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

Meta said on Friday it would discontinue an AI feature that allowed users to generate images using public Instagram accounts.

Meta suspended its Muse Image AI's Instagram photo referencing feature just three days after launch following widespread privacy backlash over consent

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.

July 10 : Meta said on Friday it is discontinuing an AI feature that allowed users to generate images using public Instagram accounts, days after rolling out the feature."Our…

July 10 : Meta said on Friday it is discontinuing an AI feature launched this week that allowed users to generate images using public Instagram accounts, after drawing widespread…

“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.