{"slug": "instagrams-ai-image-generator-alarms-privacy-experts", "title": "Instagram’s AI image generator alarms privacy experts", "summary": "Meta's new AI image generator, Muse Image AI, allows users to generate photos of public Instagram profiles without notifying those users, sparking privacy concerns from advocates.", "body_md": "# Instagram’s AI image generator alarms privacy experts\n\n[The Guardian Technology](https://www.theguardian.com/us/technology)\n\nInstagram users should check privacy settings after rollout of new Meta AI image generator, advocates warn Meta has sparked blowback from privacy advocates for allowing its new AI image maker to generate photos of users with public profiles by default. Users of Meta’s Muse Image AI tool, released Tuesday, can tag public Instagram profiles and generate pictures that pull from faces of people featured in these social media posts. Instagram users aren’t notified when their posts are integrated into what the company describes as its “most advanced image generation model yet”. Continue reading...\n\nInstagram users should check privacy settings after rollout of new Meta AI image generator, advocates warn\n\nMeta has sparked blowback from privacy advocates for allowing its new AI image maker to generate photos of users with public profiles by default.\n\nUsers of [Meta’s Muse Image AI ](https://about.fb.com/news/2026/07/introducing-muse-image-meta-ai/)tool, released Tuesday, can tag public Instagram profiles and generate pictures that pull from faces of people featured in these social media posts. Instagram users aren’t notified when their posts are integrated into what the company describes as its “most advanced image generation model yet”.\n\n[Continue reading...](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/09/instagram-ai-image-generator-privacy)\n\nGet AI news in your inbox\n\nDaily digest of what matters in AI.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/instagrams-ai-image-generator-alarms-privacy-experts", "canonical_source": "https://www.machinebrief.com/news/instagrams-ai-image-generator-alarms-privacy-experts-2kh7", "published_at": "2026-07-09 22:15:29+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-09 23:44:21.168972+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["generative-ai", "ai-ethics", "ai-policy", "ai-products"], "entities": ["Meta", "Instagram", "Muse Image AI"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/instagrams-ai-image-generator-alarms-privacy-experts", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/instagrams-ai-image-generator-alarms-privacy-experts.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/instagrams-ai-image-generator-alarms-privacy-experts.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/instagrams-ai-image-generator-alarms-privacy-experts.jsonld"}}