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Meta Now Lets Anyone Use Your Instagram Photos in AI Images—Unless You Opt Out

Wired AI Reece Rogers July 7, 2026
Meta Now Lets Anyone Use Your Instagram Photos in AI Images—Unless You Opt Out
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# Meta Is Using Your Instagram Photos to Train AI—Here's What You Need to Know Meta is now using photos from public Instagram accounts to create AI-generated images, and you have to actively opt out if you don't want yours included. If you do nothing, your photos could appear in AI training data that powers their new image generation tool. You'll need to go into your account settings to disable this if it bothers you.

As part of Meta’s Muse Image model rollout, Instagram users with public accounts need to opt out to block AI generations of their content.

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