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Meta removes Muse Image after major concerns over data privacy, image-scraping
- IBJ Bureau
- Jul 12, 2026
Social media platform Meta has scrapped a controversial feature in its recently announced Muse AI image generator, Muse Image, after concerns over data privacy and image-scraping sparked an outcry.
The new feature announced this week had enabled users to create AI images using public Instagram accounts.
Meta says that it has taken note of the 'feedback' and that the feature is no longer available.
'We have heard the feedback that this feature missed the mark; so it is no longer available,' Meta has added.
Earlier this week, Meta had announced that one way for people to generate images in Meta AI was by @-mentioning public Instagram accounts that they wanted to reference.
'Our intent was to provide a useful creative tool and give people control over whether their public content could be referenced in this way,' Meta has explained as it removed the feature.
Meta’s recent announcement of Muse Image, touted as its most powerful AI image generator and first media generation model developed by Superintelligence Labs, had drawn criticism and user concerns over data privacy, image-scraping and consent.
Amid the outcry over the new feature, the Indian government had week said that it would assess Meta’s Muse AI image generator under the existing legal framework.
IT Secretary S Krishnan had said that the ministry would examine representations that it would receive.
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