Meta Forces Manual Opt-Out to Keep Public Instagram Photos Out of Muse Image Training

The image generator ingests profiles by default with no notice to subjects, extending the default data practice the company paired with its new watermarking tool last week.

Meta's Muse Image generator pulls from public Instagram accounts to create new images unless users intervene in their privacy settings. The feature activates automatically on visible profiles, allowing the model to draw on photographs without sending any alert to the people pictured.

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