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SAG-AFTRA and industry groups condemn Meta's Muse Image AI for using publicly posted Instagram content to generate images without user consent and urge users to opt out in the Instagram app (Profile > Menu > Sharing and reuse > disable 'Allow people to use your content on Instagram with AI features' for Posts and Reels); this stance, echoed by CAA, highlights a broader backlash against opt-out AI policies and creator rights.
Meta’s Muse Image AI can generate pictures by pulling faces from public Instagram posts when users tag profiles in prompts, with source material used by default and without notifying the depicted people. Public accounts can opt out via Settings > Sharing and Reuse; private accounts and users under 18 are excluded. Privacy advocates say the opt-out is buried and unfair, warning about minors being depicted; Meta says guardrails exist and will act on policy-violating content. Muse Image is live in the Meta AI app and Instagram Stories in the US, with plans to expand to Facebook and add video features.
Meta's Muse Image rollout automatically allows public Instagram posts to be used for AI remixes, with an opt-out required if you don’t want your content used. Public accounts are affected, private accounts are not. To disable, go to Instagram > profile > menu > Sharing and reuse and turn off 'Allow people to use your content on Instagram and with AI features on Meta' for Posts and Reels. Existing AI-generated content won’t be deleted, and you won’t be notified when someone uses your content.
Meta has launched Muse Image, the first AI image generator from its Superintelligence Labs, powering image tools across the Meta AI app, Instagram, and WhatsApp (with Facebook and Messenger coming soon). Described as 'agentic' and working with the Muse Spark language model to reason, search, and plan before generating, Muse Image also allows you to @mention Instagram accounts to pull in likenesses (with privacy controls), transform images, redesign rooms from web images, and draw edits on photos—plus it will power 30 new AI effects for Instagram Stories.
Meta unveiled Muse Image, the company’s first in-house image-generation model from Meta Superintelligence Labs led by Alexandr Wang. Available for free via the Meta AI app, WhatsApp, and Instagram, with paid plans for power users, Muse Image will also power advertiser-specific image tools through Advantage Plus. Meta says the model brings native reasoning to the creative process, enabling on-brand variations with fewer iterations, and plans to release Muse Video later. Internal benchmarks show Muse Image trails OpenAI’s GPT Image 2 but outperforms Nano Banana 2 in image-editing tasks, as Meta looks to diversify revenue beyond ads and reduce reliance on third-party models.