Meta turns off the Instagram feature that let users make AI deepfakes of public accounts

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Meta has disabled a controversial Instagram feature that allowed users to create AI-generated images using content from public accounts without permission, following significant backlash. The feature was part of Meta's Muse Image AI model but raised privacy and creative rights concerns.

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.