Instagram’s AI image generator alarms privacy experts
Summary
Meta has introduced Muse Image, an AI tool that can create pictures using faces from public Instagram profiles by default. Privacy experts are concerned because users are not notified when their photos are used, and opting out requires finding a hidden setting.Key Facts
- Muse Image allows AI-generated photos using faces from public Instagram accounts.
- Private accounts and users under 18 are automatically excluded from the feature.
- Adult users with public accounts can opt out by changing a setting in Instagram's “sharing and reuse” section.
- Meta does not notify users when their photos are used in AI-generated images by default.
- Privacy experts say the opt-out setting is hard to find and that data sharing is turned on by default.
- Meta says it has safety controls and will act against content violating community rules.
- There is uncertainty if children shown in public photos of adults are included in AI image generation.
- Critics argue this setting should be opt-in since users did not expect new uses of their photos when joining Instagram.
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