Instagram is using your iPhone images to make AI slop. Here’s how to stop it

Macworld Instagram recently unveiled 30 new AI effects, based on the new Muse Image developed by Instagram’s parent company, Meta. Instagram also launched a feature allowing users to tag their friends using their @usernames and generate AI-generated images from their content. While the new features are presented innocuously, a support article from Instagram’s Help Center clarifies who can use your images for AI generation: If you have a public account, other Instagram users may be able to create new reels, posts or stories that reuse part or all of your published photos, videos or reels in features like remix, sequence, templates and stickers. In addition, people may be able to create content with your Instagram content using AI features at Meta. In other words, anyone with an Instagram account–individuals, groups, companies, etc.–can use your posted content and “create content…using AI features.” All those iPhone photos you take and share with friends an