Meta halts AI image feature after user backlash over privacy and consent concerns

Users and Hollywood agencies raised privacy and copyright concerns about the new tool, Muse Image.

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Meta told Dylan Byers, of Puck News, that it had nixed the feature after backlash from its user base.

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Following significant backlash, Meta is turning off the feature it announced this week that let users generate AI images based on content from public Instagram accounts just by tagging them. The feature, as originally set up, meant that content from any public Instagram account could be used in AI creations without the account owner's permission. "Earlier this week, we announced that one way for people to generate images in Meta AI is by @-mentioning public Instagram accounts that they want to reference," Meta says in an update to a blog post about its new Muse Image AI model. "Our intent was to provide a useful creative tool and to give pe … Read the full story at The Verge.

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