A recent article from the deep view talked about Meta’s new AI usage of user photos:
Last week, Meta Superintelligence Labs released its first image-generation model, which promises to produce high-quality images that understand complex prompts and multi-image references. Meta’s competitive edge is that users can access these features directly in their favorite social apps. However, at launch, this also came with a major caveat for anyone who wanted to use it.
A brief note in the release said that users could generate images from public Instagram accounts with a simple @ mention. The idea was that you could create images that were “rooted in your world.” Of course, this was immediately met with online backlash, with users outraged that the toggle was automatically turned on or “opted in” without their knowledge, not being told when someone creates an AI image of you, and no way of deleting existing images.
Meta has since pulled the feature, saying in a statement: “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.”
Raj Ananthanpillai, founder and CEO of Trua, and author of the new book The Trust Crisis told The Deep View, had this to say:
“You can reduce the risk. Avoid posting high-resolution close-ups of faces or hands. Strengthen privacy settings so only trusted people can view your content,”