India, July 8 -- Meta Platforms Inc. (META) is facing criticism over a new AI tool, Muse Image, which can generate pictures using other people's profile photos without notifying them.
Muse Image is one of many publicly available text-to-image tools, meaning it can create images from a few lines of written prompts. The feature is available through the Meta AI app and web browser, as well as on WhatsApp and in Instagram Stories for users in the US.
Meta says people can opt out of having their image used, even if their account is public. But Donald Campbell, advocacy director at tech justice non-profit Foxglove, called the feature an "obvious recipe for disaster."
"We've already seen a catalogue of harms from non-consensual AI-altered image...