Meta Now Lets Anyone Use Your Instagram Photos in AI Images—Unless You Opt Out
SMRTR summary
Meta just made your public Instagram photos available for AI-generated remixes, whether you agreed to it or not.
The company launched "Muse Image," its first AI image model, with a feature baked into Instagram that lets anyone tag your public profile in a prompt, generating images using your likeness. Meta frames it as a creative personalization tool.
But the default settings automatically opt you in, and here's the part that stings: you won't receive any notification when someone generates an image using your photos.
To opt out without going private, users must navigate to Settings, then Sharing and Reuse, and manually toggle off permissions for Posts and Reels.
There's another catch. Any AI-generated images already created using your content will not be deleted, even after you change those settings.
It's a familiar pattern, companies betting that most users won't notice until it's too late.
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