Meta’s new Muse Image tool turns public Instagram photos into AI images, unless users opt out

Meta’s new AI image generator, Muse Image , can turn a person’s public Instagram photos into AI-generated pictures without telling them, and Meta opts public accounts into this by default. A user builds the image by @-mentioning someone’s account, and Meta neither asks for nor notifies the person whose photos it uses. The BBC reported that the tool is drawing backlash over consent, with critics warning it makes it easier to create non-consensual altered images.