New Delhi, July 11 -- MENLO PARK - The photos you shared publicly on Instagram can now be ingredients in someone else's AI-generated image, and Meta does not need to tell you first.

Meta launched Muse Image on Thursday, a feature built into its Meta AI assistant that lets a user type a prompt, reference a public Instagram account with an @-tag, and receive a generated image incorporating the visual style and content from that account's public posts. The feature comes from Meta Superintelligence Labs, the AI research division the company consolidated in June, and is rolling out first to Instagram users before extending to Facebook, Messenger, and WhatsApp.

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