{"id":102779,"date":"2026-07-11T18:07:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T18:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/102779\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T18:07:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T18:07:11","slug":"meta-pulls-plug-on-controversial-ai-access-to-photos-on-public-instagram-pages-after-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/102779\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta pulls plug on controversial AI access to photos on public Instagram pages after backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Meta<\/a> has swiftly withdrawn a controversial AI<\/a> image generation feature, Muse Image, just days after its launch, following widespread criticism over its use of public Instagram accounts as fodder for AI-generated visuals. <\/p>\n

The move on Friday came less than a week after the parent company of Instagram and Facebook rolled out the tool, its first image-generation model available through the company’s artificial intelligence assistant, Meta AI. <\/p>\n

Unlike other AI apps that create images based on user suggestions, Muse Image automatically made photos<\/a> posted on all public Instagram accounts usable by the AI tool as a reference when creating new images. <\/p>\n

This sparked immediate privacy concerns. <\/p>\n

“Our intent was to provide a useful creative tool and to give people control over whether their public content could be referenced in this way,” Meta said in a statement. “We’ve heard the feedback that this feature missed the mark, so it’s no longer available.” <\/p>\n

The feature’s rollout led to a flurry of social media posts flagging privacy concerns and instructing Instagram users how to opt out. <\/p>\n

Hollywood also quickly raised concerns, with the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) urging its members to change Instagram settings to protect their likeness. <\/p>\n

In a statement on X, SAG-AFTRA applauded Meta’s decision to shut off the feature. <\/p>\n

“With the dangers of nonconsensual digital replicas well known to all, a feature that encouraged that behavior is unwise,” the union said. “We appreciate its discontinuance. It is the right thing to do.” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meta has swiftly withdrawn a controversial AI image generation feature, Muse Image, just days after its launch, following…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102780,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[24,25,8162,53358,1122,51253,16910,53359],"class_list":["post-102779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ai","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-image-generation","tag-instagram-accounts","tag-meta","tag-muse-image","tag-privacy-concerns","tag-public-content"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102779","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=102779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}