{"id":102210,"date":"2026-07-11T01:34:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T01:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/102210\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T01:34:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T01:34:13","slug":"meta-disables-its-new-ai-image-generator-after-sag-aftra-caa-trash-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/102210\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta Disables Its New AI Image Generator After SAG-AFTRA & CAA Trash Tool"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tJust days after Meta<\/a> introduced its Muse Image<\/a> AI generator, the Mark Zuckerberg<\/a>-run company has done a complete U-turn.<\/p>\n

\n\tUnder pressure from a now-victory-lap-taking CAA and SAG-AFTRA, the tech behemoth announced Friday that the feature is \u201cno longer available\u201d on Instagram, admitting they \u201cmissed the mark\u201d amid privacy concerns over the automatic opt-in for users.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cEarlier 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,\u201d Meta said in an IG post Friday. \u201cOur intent was to provide a useful creative tool and to give people control over whether their public content could be referenced in this way. We\u2019ve heard the feedback that this feature missed the mark, so it\u2019s no longer available.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tMeta added, \u201cWe\u2019ve heard the feedback that this feature missed the mark, so it\u2019s no longer available.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tA quick scan of Instagram shows that Meta has, in fact, disabled Muse.<\/p>\n

\n\tAt its core, a Muse user just needed to tag a public or unprotected IG feed, and it instantly becomes meat for the AI generator to create its own images or \u201cremixes,\u201d as they are sometimes called, after which the images are available online permanently.<\/p>\n

\n\tFriday\u2019s announcement comes after CAA called for Meta to implement guardrails<\/a> for Muse, despite the agency rolling out its own AI Vault program to archive its members\u2019 likenesses forever. \u201cNo one\u2019s name, image, likeness, voice, or creative work should be used by any third party, including AI models, without clear, documented consent,\u201d the uber-agency said Wednesday.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn a statement on Friday, CAA said: \u201cWe commend Meta for its swift decision to remove the Muse Image feature. Putting individual rights and consent at the forefront is essential to building responsible technology. We look forward to ongoing conversations to ensure creators stay protected as technology evolves.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe actors union echoed CAA\u2019s concerns about what appears to be a case of Big Tech overreach. In a statement issued Friday, SAG-AFTRA said: \u201cWith the dangers of nonconsensual digital replicas well known to all, a feature that encouraged that behavior is unwise.\u00a0 We appreciate its discontinuance.\u00a0 It is the responsible thing to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe use of AI in Hollywood continues to be a hot-button topic in recent years. SAG-AFTRA has endorsed the Trump administration\u2019s AI policy framework<\/a>, which calls for Congress to enact legislation that includes parental controls, intellectual property rights protection, First Amendment protections, expanding AI workforce development, allowing data centers to generate their own power and removing legal barriers that limit AI innovation.<\/p>\n

\n\tLast month, Trump signed an executive order<\/a> for voluntary framework in which AI companies would provide the government with access to new models for a 30-day review period before their release.<\/p>\n

\n\tErik Pedersen contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Just days after Meta introduced its Muse Image AI generator, the Mark Zuckerberg-run company has done a complete…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102211,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[24,25,1112,1122,51253],"class_list":["post-102210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ai","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-mark-zuckerberg","tag-meta","tag-muse-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}