AMERICANALMANAC (Jonah Adams) - Meta pulls AI image tool from Instagram after Hollywood backlash over consent
Meta disabled its new Muse Image AI generator on Instagram on Friday, less than a week after launching a feature that automatically enrolled every public account on the platform, without notice or explicit consent, as raw material for artificial-intelligence image creation. The reversal came after sharp criticism from SAG-AFTRA and the Creative Artists Agency, both […] The post Meta pulls AI image tool from Instagram after Hollywood backlash over consent appeared first on American Almanac .
Meta disabled its new Muse Image AI generator on Instagram on Friday, less than a week after launching a feature that automatically enrolled every public account on the platform, without notice or explicit consent, as raw material for artificial-intelligence image creation. The reversal came after sharp criticism from SAG-AFTRA and the Creative Artists Agency, both of which warned that the tool invited nonconsensual use of people's likenesses. The company acknowledged the obvious in an Instagram post reported by Deadline : the feature "missed the mark." That is one way to describe a product that let any user generate AI images of any public Instagram account holder simply by tagging their username in a prompt, and never bothered to tell…Open