Meta’s New AI Image Generator Sparks Privacy Concerns Over Use of Public Instagram Photos

Meta launched Muse Image on Tuesday, its first AI image-generation model developed entirely by Meta Superintelligence Labs. Within hours of the announcement, however, attention had shifted from the model’s capabilities to a feature that allows users to generate AI images using another person’s public Instagram photos without notifying them, prompting fresh questions about privacy and renewed comparisons with some of the company’s most controversial data practices. Until now, Meta had relied on t