Reading the article I was curious what the feature was. Then I read its been cooked up by meta's super intelligence lab wow. Ok so what's the feature "allow individuals to generate images by @-mentioning public Instagram accounts" Oh its just prompt to image the thing we've had for nearly 4 years now. Thats so fucking boring and so obviously a bad idea. Who wants ai slop spammed in the comment section? Its already half the posts. These people have unlimited money, access to one of the biggest platforms ever and thats what they come up with. These ghouls are souless they have no imagination.
this post was submitted on 11 Jul 2026
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It'll be back, and probably in an even more malicious form. Let's not forget, even for a second, that Meta is one of the most sinister and evil corporations in human history.
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They will just repackage it and ship it under a different name and put it in a massive ToS update that nobody reads.
The French had the right idea with the guillotine
Did they really think people would be okay with being automatically opted in for a feature that would allow other people to generate AI content of them (without notifying said person, at that)?
My mom did that shit and I'm still pissed off. I didn't give her permission to feed my family to the AI machine to produce uncanny valley pictures of us
What's permissible in every relationship is different and I understand why that could be a real violation of trust. Of course, in general and barring some narrow exceptions, none of us have the authority to tell others what they may do with images of us.
Why does this read like slop generated to defend corporate violation of personal rights?
no ur slop
you say "corporate violation of personal rights" i say "basic journalism" agree to disagree
It's unbelievable what people have already allowed, why not go for it if you're meta?
In this case, it seems like the feature was unpopular as well as costing them money to operate. They can still feed all that same data into AI without the feature present.
I know, I know… it just makes me sad seeing that they leverage tech-illiteracy to try to pass things like that. I wish people would tell them to fuck off but I think we all know too well that it’s not going to happen :(
...yes?
Well then.