Summary
A Danish colleague used Meta’s new Muse Image AI function to generate a deepfake image of the author, placing them in front of the Manhattan Bridge in New York without explicit consent. The AI tool accessed the author’s Instagram profile data, including photos, to create the synthetic image, and the author received no notification that their likeness was being used. Experts and consumer advocates criticized the feature as crossing ethical boundaries and noted that Meta’s default settings allow content to be used for AI training and generation unless users actively opt out.