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In a blog post on Tuesday, Meta announced the release of an AI image generator called Muse Image, along with an as-yet unreleased video generator called Muse Video. Elon Musk\u2019s X rolled out something very much like this image generator, which features social media integration, about two years ago, and OpenAI released its video generator via the Sora social media app in September of last year. So I guess from a certain standpoint, a social media slop generator from Meta is long overdue.<\/p>\n

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Then again, OpenAI announced it was killing Sora this past March, before pivoting its company\u2019s entire focus. Meanwhile X\u2019s integration of Grok images hasn\u2019t gone all that well either. In case you blocked out this memory, during this past holiday season it became a meme on X to ask Grok to generate sexualized images of people, including minors.<\/p>\n

You might assume Meta would not want this to be in any way reminiscent of those past AI social media products, but you would be wrong. Muse Image pulls information from your Instagram. If you\u2019re in a browser, the cleanest way to see it in action is to go to the Meta AI web app at meta.ai, log in using your Instagram account, and ask the chatbot interface to generate a picture of yourself.<\/p>\n

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My Instagram account is private, but apparently since I was prompting it about my own account\u2014the one I was logged in as\u2014it was able to dig around in my photos anyway. However, the visible chain-of-reasoning display in the app said there wasn\u2019t enough information in my photo feed about my appearance for Muse Image to draw on, so instead it generated an image of a random guy and explained that it would pretend that was me, and I could alter it later. That was a silly alternative to just saying it couldn\u2019t fulfill my prompt, but it didn\u2019t bother me.<\/p>\n

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Somewhat more worryingly, however, you can also prompt the chatbot to generate an image using details pulled from someone else\u2019s Instagram account. Unsurprisingly, I was allowed to do this with prompts about Mark Zuckerberg.<\/p>\n

Even more<\/em> worryingly, this works with random people as well. I was able to generate (completely anodyne) images of someone I\u2019m friends with on Instagram. In another test, I was able to generate an image of a real-world friend I\u2019ve never followed or interacted with on Instagram\u2014essentially a digital stranger\u2014without asking this person\u2019s permission.<\/p>\n

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As noted by Wired, allowing others to access your likeness in this way is currently the default setting in Instagram if you have a public account. Instagram has updated the relevant help page to disclose this, alongside a related disclosure that\u2019s worth reading. That section now says (emphasis mine):<\/p>\n

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\u201cIf you have a public account, other Instagram users may be able to create new reels, posts or stories that reuse part or all of your published photos, videos or reels in features like remix, sequence, templates and stickers. In addition, people may be able to create content with your Instagram content using AI features at Meta. Depending on the settings of the other user, this means your reused content may be discoverable in search engine results.<\/strong>\u201c<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

In my tests, the quickest way for an Instagram user to shut this down was to set their account to private using a browser. If you have the Instagram smartphone app, you can opt-out (per Wired) by going to your profile,tapping the hamburger button at the top-right corner, and finding the tab for \u201cSharing and reuse.\u201d There\u2019ll be an option to \u201cAllow people to use your content on Instagram and with AI features on Meta,\u201d and you can toggle \u201cPosts\u201d and \u201cReels\u201d to the off setting.<\/p>\n

According to Meta\u2019s blog post this functionality is now built into Instagram Stories for U.S. users, and in some territories, to WhatsApp. Facebook will apparently get it soon. Meanwhile, Muse Video is coming soon to Meta AI, the blog post says. Presumably that will generate videos as easily as it can currently generate photos.<\/p>\n

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Gizmodo reached out to Meta for comment.<\/p>\n

Update:<\/strong> Shortly after publication, a Meta spokesperson provided the statement below.<\/p>\n

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\u201cMuse Image has built-in protections to help prevent the generation of policy-violating content, including violent, sexual, or defamatory imagery of real people. Content that violates our policies \u2014 whether reported by users or detected by our systems \u2014 is subject to enforcement under our Community Standards.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n

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