Called "Muse Image," this proposed tool would have allowed users to use public-facing Instagram photos as references for generative AI.

Meta has scrapped its newly launched Muse Image AI feature, which allowed users to generate images using content from public Instagram accounts, just days after its debut

"Meta has axed a controversial feature that allowed users to modify photos from public Instagram accounts using AI," reports TechCrunch: The feature, which wasn't designed to alert a user if their photos were used in this way, prompted immediate backlash..

The long-vacant site has become a magnet for so-called urban explorers, who prowl abandoned malls, hospitals, power plants, amusement parks, factories and any other disused structure they can breach... [I]t's been turbocharged by artsy videos on Instagram and TikTok that spur others to create their own posts, luring still more curiosity seekers..

Meta "said in a court filing on Monday that four states were seeking $1.4 trillion in penalties," reports Reuters, "over accusations the company designed its Facebook and Instagram platforms to addict young users and misled the public about their safety." Meta put forward the figure in its response to the attorneys general's filings on how penalties should be calculated if the states prevailed at trial

Meta's release this week of an AI feature that let people alter Instagram content drew swift blowback.

Meta has deactivated the Muse Image capability to create AI deepfakes of any public Instagram account you @-mention.

Today, the European Commission (EC) has announced that it has preliminarily found Meta in breach of the EU's Digital Services Act for what it calls "the addictive design of Instagram and Facebook"

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The European Union is ramping up pressure on Meta to make big changes to Facebook and Instagram after the European Commission preliminarily found that features like autoplay, infinite scroll, and highly personalized content recommendations were addictive

The European Union found that Meta services like Facebook and Instagram are too addictive by design.

The apps that stole your time could soon work very differently.

Meta's Facebook and Instagram both use "addictive design" that could fall foul of the European Union's new Digital Services Act, and the European Commission has already preliminarily found Meta's iPhone apps are in breach of its rules

Regulators say features such as infinite scroll contribute to "compulsive use" and "unhealthy habits".

The European Commission says Facebook's and Instagram's addictive designs violate the Digital Services Act.

Instagram and Facebook's "addictive" designs have put Meta in breach of the European Union's digital laws, the EU concluded Friday in a preliminary report.

This advanced model uses complex visual reasoning to blend photos, edit background elements, and render legible, styled text for infographics. Available on Instagram, it will eventually come to other Meta products like Facebook and Whatsapp

This advanced model uses complex visual reasoning to blend photos, edit background elements, and render legible, styled text for infographics. Available on Instagram, it will eventually come to other Meta products like Facebook and Whatsapp

Meta baru-baru ini memperkenalkan ciri kecerdasan buatan terbaharu mereka yang dinamakan Muse AI. Ciri ini disepadukan ke dalam platform mereka, terutamanya Instagram

KUALA LUMPUR, July 10 Meta has introduced Muse Image, an AI image generator that allows users to crea...

Meta has automatically opted all public accounts into its Muse Image AI.

Meta lets its new AI tool use your Instagram photos to generate images

The tech giant said people can opt out - but privacy campaigners called it a "recipe for disaster".

Instagram has started using images and videos from public profiles for AI content, although users can opt out of it.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Meta launched its inaugural AI image model from the Meta Superintelligence Labs on Tuesday, its effort to compete with the likes of OpenAI's GPT Images 2.0 and Google's Nano Banana 2 in the AI image generation race. The new model, called Muse Image, rolled out with deep integrations woven into the Instagram app

Negeri California, Colorado, Kentucky, dan New Jersey menuntut penalti mencecah $1.4 trilion (~RM 5.71 trilion) terhadap Meta atas dakwaan bahawa Facebook dan Instagram direka untuk menjadikan remaja ketagih serta mengelirukan orang awam tentang keselamatan menggunakan platform

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

The new AI model is also powering effects in Stories and image generation in WhatsApp.

We're all on our smartphones, often interacting through screens instead of face to face -- even though social media is no substitute for spending time together in person. Teens, in particular, spend an average of 4.8 hours a day on apps like TikTok, Instagram and Snapchat, according to Gallup

The government says the changes will also give the eSafety Commissioner more power to demand information from platforms and age-assurance providers as teens continue finding ways around the law. Euronews reports: The government said Sunday it would introduce draft legislation this week doubling the maximum penalty to 99 million Australian dollars (63 million euros) for platforms -- including Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and TikTok -- that do not take reasonable steps to comply with the ban, which became law on 10 December

Shopee and Meta have expanded their partnership, launching Instagram Affiliate Partnerships in markets like Malaysia

U.S. social media giant Meta is facing an onslaught of regulatory scrutiny in India, which has the largest user base for Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp.

Shopee and Meta have recently launched affiliate partnerships on Instagram

Instagram launched its CapCut rival Edits in January last year, and now the app has gained some new features

"Checking a phone number can be a useful verification tool, but these harms are also permitted by the platform's fundamental design choices." Mozilla also flagged a broader interoperability question -- one worth logging if you're building on top of, or competing with, Meta's ecosystem. While letting users claim their existing Facebook and Instagram usernames may cut down on impersonation, it also shows how easily Meta can stitch identity together across its own apps, even as users still can't take that identity, or their contacts, to a rival platform

A federal judge rejected Meta's bid to dismiss claims from 29 state attorneys general alleging that Facebook and Instagram were designed to addict children while concealing the harms

The collaboration isn't very surprising considering the fact that Nothing is a sponsor of the team. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Nothing India (@nothingindia) As you can see in the Instagram post above, the RCB players picked between two designs for the RCB Edition, and...

Meta dan Shopee kini dilihat terus memperluaskan kerjasama melibatkan edagang, dimana kini Instagram mengaktifkan ciri sekutu untuk pengguna tempatan, membolehkan para pengguna pautkan akaun dengan Shopee Affiliate, dan seterusnya mempromosikan barangan dan menjana pendapatan melaluinya

Mark Zuckerberg membina Facebook dan dengan pendapatan yang dijana membeli pesaing seperti WhatsApp dan Instagram satu persatu

WhatsApp just announced that its time to reserve your WhatsApp Username , which will then be locked-in for your use when the feature is launched. You can use the same username as your Instagram while businesses or creators Facebook and Instagram usernames are reserved

Nothing loses control of its Instagram or is it just clever Phone 4b marketing?

Australia menjadi negara pertama di dunia mengharamkan pengguna bawah 16 tahun daripada mengakses media sosial. Ini tidak terhad kepada Facebook, Snap dan Instagram tetapi juga meliputi platform penstriman video seperti YouTube

The Los Angeles Police Department says about 1,500 police agencies across America have drone programs, reports SFGate, and 58 of those drone-using police agencies are in California. The Sacramento County sheriff's office recently posted drone footage on Instagram set to theme from "Mission: Impossible," claiming "a nationwide first" where their drone successfully disarmed a felon "seen earlier with a firearm" (though now not moving, but holding a knife while lying face down in a garage)

YouTube is adding more Instagram and TikTok-like features to Shorts.

Users would not wager money, and the app would probably rely on a video game-like points system instead, one person said, though the company had not ruled out the eventual use of real money betting. The app is internally referred to as "Arena" and would function independently from Meta's social networking apps, which include Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger, said the employees, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss confidential plans

Instagram introduced the Instagram for TV app last December, initially available on Amazon Fire TV devices in the US, and expanded to Google TV devices in February

Instagram's TV app is expanding to Samsung TVs in the US, half a year after it launched for Amazon Fire TV devices.

In their first statement since Clarkson's Farm season 5 aired, Amazon and Jeremy Clarkson have confirmed season 6 is being filmed after the star's cancer diagnosis.

In this week's "Sunday Reboot," Beats subverts the World Cup, and GymKit and Malcolm's gym are updated in opposite ways. Jamal Musiala with some taped Beats - Image Credit: Instagram/Beats/Jamal Musiala Sunday Reboot is a weekly column covering some of the lighter stories within the Apple reality distortion field from the past seven days

Polymarket sends creators bullet-point guidance on what to say, according to creators who have worked with the company and a recruiting website... Polymarket's viral clipping campaign racked up more than 140 million views on TikTok, YouTube and Instagram, according to the analytics provider Tubular..

FSD sebelum ini ditawarkan sebagai pakej tambahan pada harga RM32,000 kepada pembeli kereta Tesla di Malaysia. Notis penamatan perkhidmatan ini diumumkan Tesla menerusi akaun Instagram dengan ia disedari […]

Longtime Slashdot reader schwit1 shares a report from Reuters: Meta has lobbied the U.S. Congress for legal immunity from child-harm claims tied to social media products such as Instagram, as it faces thousands of lawsuits from young users and their families, according to a source familiar with the matter and proposed legislative language reviewed by Reuters

Tesla Malaysia will soon discontinue the one-time purchase option for its Full Self-Driving (FSD) Capability package. The company reportedly shared the announcement through a now-expired Instagram Stories post which was initially sighted by Paultan.org, informing customers that they have until 30 June 2026 to purchase the feature outright

Instagram has officially introduced a major update for its carousel posts that lets creators add separate text descriptions for each image or video

Kemaskini baharu Instagram kini membenarkan setiap gambar atau video dalam Carousel mempunyai kapsyen tersendiri

Instagram carousels can now be up to 20 slides with 20 unique captions.

The latest publicity stunt by Nothing involves its founder and CEO, Carl Pei, releasing a video on his Instagram profile

Meta telah pun sedia mengaktifkan sokongan langganan WhatsApp Plus untuk pengguna tempatan pada harga RM3.50 sebulan, yang menawarkan beberapa ciri tambahan. Selain WhatsApp, kini Meta turut telah mengaktifkan ciri langganan Instagram Plus untuk pengguna tempatan

Users can still sideload nearly anything else if it's not available on the Commostore, but apps designed for doomscrolling remain off limits. That means useful services such as WhatsApp, SMS, Signal, Telegram, WeChat, Spotify, Uber, Lyft, maps, podcasts, QR scanning, voice notes, and hotspot support work, but the likes of Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, Gmail, and browsers do not

The service has reached 500 million monthly active users, having added about 100 million since last August. Undoubtedly, its ties with Instagram have made it easier to jump to than other Twitter wannabes

Meta's new Facebook AI Mode uses Muse Spark to generate answers and will soon use public posts across Instagram, Facebook, and Threads.

Remember the old jokes about Facebook eventually charging people just to keep using their accounts? Well, Meta hasn’t gone quite that far, but it has recently introduced new “Plus” subscriptions for Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp

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"Social media is making our children unhappy and unsafe, and as a parent, as much as a Prime Minister, I just can't let that go on anymore," he added. The ban will include social platforms like Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook and X, while there is no intention for messaging services like WhatsApp and Signal to be included, the government said in a release

Sites including Instagram, YouTube and TikTok will become inaccessible for millions of children, the prime minister has announced.

Today, the UK government has announced that it's going to ban the use of social media for children under 16. The ban will include Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, and X, but won't include messaging apps like WhatsApp and Signal

The ban could include platforms like Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook and X.

Apple's Beats by Dre is really pushing its unannounced headphones at the World Cup, with more player social media shots suggesting that the new model might be customizable. Lee Kang-in and Antonee Robinson, wearing unannounced Beats headphones - Image Credit: Instagram kanginleeoficial and antonee_jedi After an initial mention in an FCC filing on May 23, an unannounced pair of Beats were then shown around the neck of soccer star Lamine Yamal

The UK is following Australia by banning young people under 16 from TikTok, Instagram and other social media platforms.

The UK has become the latest country to ban social media for under-16s here's everything you need to know.

Meta has finally rolled out its paid subscription offerings in Malaysia with the introduction of Instagram Plus, WhatsApp Plus and Facebook Plus