{"id":801203,"date":"2026-07-15T05:21:27","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T05:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/801203\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T05:21:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T05:21:27","slug":"meta-suspends-ai-image-feature-after-days-of-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/801203\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta Suspends AI Image Feature After Days of Backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m \"><a id=\"auto-tag_meta\" href=\"http:\/\/au.variety.com\/t\/meta\/\" data-tag=\"meta\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Meta<\/a> said it will discontinue an AI feature that allowed users to generate images using public <a id=\"auto-tag_instagram\" href=\"http:\/\/au.variety.com\/t\/instagram\/\" data-tag=\"instagram\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a> accounts following days of criticism over the feature\u2019s opt-out policy, including by Hollywood talent agencies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m \">\u201cEarlier this week, we announced that one way for people to generate images in Meta AI is by @-mentioning public Instagram accounts that they want to reference,\u201d a Meta spokesperson said in a statement. \u201cOur intent was to provide a useful creative tool and to give people control over whether their public content could be referenced in this way. We\u2019ve heard the feedback that this feature missed the mark, so it\u2019s no longer available.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m \">Meta introduced the new Muse Image model on Tuesday, letting users manipulate an image of a person all by tagging their Instagram account \u201cin service of the social experiences billions of people already love.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/biz\/news\/meta-suspends-ai-image-instagram-feature-backlash-1236806989\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Variety US<\/a><\/p>\n<p> optional screen readerRead More About:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meta said it will discontinue an AI feature that allowed users to generate images using public Instagram accounts&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":801204,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,1202,1333,105],"class_list":["post-801203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-instagram","tag-meta","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=801203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/801204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=801203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=801203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=801203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}