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Meta's AI Uses Instagram Photos for Image Generation
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- →Meta's integration of AI with Instagram raises significant privacy concerns for users.
- →Users must actively opt out to prevent their images from being used in AI generations.
- →This highlights the broader issue of default data usage policies in AI technologies.
Meta has launched Muse Image, an AI model that integrates with Instagram to allow public profiles to be used in AI-generated images. Users can tag public profiles in prompts to create personalized images, but this has raised privacy concerns as users are not notified when their images are used. To opt out, users must change their Instagram settings, as the default allows such use. This development underscores the ongoing privacy and consent issues in AI data usage.
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