Meta's New AI Image Editor Is Using People's Instagram Photos Without Permission
Alexandr Wang, chief AI officer at Meta.Credit: Bloomberg/Getty Images
Meta's latest AI endeavour isn't off to a great start, as it's angered Instagram users over manipulating images from public profiles without user permission.
Muse Image is the hottest new AI model from Meta's Superintelligence Labs, the division tasked not just with making AI as smart as humans, but much smarter. And yet its latest release is a new slop generator that can quickly edit images, create new ones, or mash up existing images into something else entirely. It's not particularly distinct from any of the other options out there; indeed, Meta's own testing shows it falling behind OpenAI's Images 2.0, though beating Google's Nano Banana 2 in editing and multi-image prompts.
The big difference with this one, though, is it's tied directly into Instagram, WhatsApp, and the Meta AI app. And unless you opt out, it can use your...
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