Meta Pulls AI Image Feature From Instagram Days After Launch

[MacRumors]

Remember that new feature Meta announced last week that let people use public Instagram posts and reels to generate AI content? It didn't last long. Meta pulled the feature from Instagram late on Friday, following widespread criticism over privacy concerns.

"Our intent was to provide a useful creative tool and to give people control over whether their public content could be referenced in this way," Meta said in a statement. "We've heard the feedback that this feature missed the mark, so ⁠it's no longer available," the company added.

Article Link: Meta Pulls AI Image Feature From Instagram Days After Launch

 

[ghostface147]

Good. No one asked for this.

 

[leonremi]

If only Meta could shoot itself in the head and die.

 

[iMean]

Not related to this specific news entry, but I love the new short news style.

 

[Nik]

I hope this AI bubble bursts, it is so annoying on so many levels.

 

[SilmarilFinder]

no longer available

No longer being available doesn't make it more private. It just means it's no longer available for free to the majority of users.

If someone is willing to pay enough, privacy won't be a limiting factor.

 

[963852741]

What else can you expect from an ad company attached to a dead "social" network.

 

[LevorgPenmancho]

Well I for one was not going to use this feature until they released it on CD anyway

 

[daemondust]

A bad idea never dies. Expect them to try again, more quietly, in 6 months.

 

[MeasterHD]

Real stupidity beats AI every time. Isn't it Zuck

 

[tim-apple-silicon]

Knowing meta they probably did it so that users would generate images from other people and the result may be considered artificial and hence no portrait right so likely to be used for model training purposes…

 

[turbineseaplane]

I wish Meta would pull Meta

 

[Shalev Lazarof]

Social media is the worst.

 

[usmaak]

If only Meta could shoot itself in the head and die.

It has tried that so many times and so far, it has failed.

 

[sw1tcher]

Social media is the worst.

Hello. Welcome to MacRumors, a social media site for Apple fans.

 

[Shalev Lazarof]

Hello. Welcome to MacRumors, a social media site for Apple fans.

Hello, this is a dedicated forum and not a social media platform where we post about last night dinner, where we share common interests about the essence of this place, Apple.

 

[Corefile]

What a total disaster for ad company Facebook Inc. They seem to stagger from crisis to new crisis. Any belief that Zuck is more than a grifter is now put to bed.

 

[boswald]

Good for them for listening to feedback, I guess, but that doesn't change the fact that they're inherently evil.

 

[ctklein]

Now instead, just use our meta glasses to record strangers at all times everywhere you go!

 

[svish]

Glad to see that this feature is being removed. It was a blatant violation of privacy.

 

[wonderings]

I don't quite get this. Is this simply because they made it super easy? What is to stop me taking an image and dropping it in Grok and making images or video from it? Nothing from what I have seen when I tried out Grok for a month on their paid platform. So is this because of how Meta integrated it and made it super easy or is there something else?

 

[AndyUnderscoreR]

... What is to stop me taking an image and dropping it in Grok and making images or video from it?...

Politeness, respect, not wanting to contribute to the tidal wave of AI slop that we're drowning in and not wanting to be a creep.

 

[wonderings]

Basic human decency?

Obviously. That is not the crux of my question. Was there something different in Meta AI other than making it really easy to generate AI from social media posts?

 

[ronno]

What a total disaster for ad company Facebook Inc. They seem to stagger from crisis to new crisis. Any belief that Zuck is more than a grifter is now put to bed.

Stagger while making several billion dollars per week in profit

 

[sw1tcher]

Hello, this is a dedicated forum and not a social media platform where we post about last night dinner, where we share common interests about the essence of this place, Apple.

Social media is an internet-based form of communication. [1] That's the very definition of what this place is.