New Delhi, July 11 -- SAN FRANCISCO - Meta pulled its Muse AI feature from Instagram less than a week after launch on Thursday, after talent agencies, photographers, and public figures raised immediate objections to a product that let users generate AI images featuring real people's public Instagram profiles without notifying those people. The feature went live during the week of July 7 and was gone by July 10.

The company's statement acknowledged the reversal without fully accounting for why the feature passed internal review. "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," Meta said. "We've heard the feedback that this feature missed the ma...