Meta has integrated a feature into its new AI-powered Muse Image generator that allows it to create images with real people's faces based on their photos from public Instagram accounts. This permission is enabled by default for all public profiles.
Meta has integrated a feature into its new AI-powered Muse Image generator that allows it to create images with real people's faces based on their photos from public Instagram accounts. This permission is enabled by default for all public profiles.
The controversial privacy settings were brought to the attention of journalists from Gizmodo , who tested the capabilities of the new neural network.
According to the publication, users can generate photos not only of famous people, such as Mark Zuckerberg, but also of ordinary people. During testing, journalists managed to create images of users without permission, with whom they had not even interacted on the social network.
Instagram has already updated its help page to state that content from public accounts can be used by others to create new content using Meta AI functions. Moreover, the content generated in this way can be indexed by search engines.
To protect their data, users need to make their account private or change the settings in the app. To do this, you need to:
After the article was published, the company responded to privacy concerns. “Muse Image has built-in protections to help prevent the generation of content that violates our policies, including violent, sexual, or defamatory depictions of real people. Content that violates our policies is subject to blocking,” Meta said.
As a reminder, the launch of the Muse Image model from Meta Superintelligence Labs was announced earlier. The tool is being deployed on Instagram, WhatsApp, and will later appear on Facebook.
