{"id":67,"date":"2026-07-12T04:45:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T04:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/madebyhumans.international\/?p=67"},"modified":"2026-07-14T05:18:37","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T05:18:37","slug":"meta-removes-ai-image-feature-after-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madebyhumans.international\/news\/meta-removes-ai-image-feature-after-backlash\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta removes AI image feature after backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a rare victory in the tech world, Meta has removed a feature just days after its release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Privacy International told the BBC<sup data-fn=\"30f9bc8b-3430-4bcd-a089-946918ef096d\" class=\"fn\"><a href=\"#30f9bc8b-3430-4bcd-a089-946918ef096d\" id=\"30f9bc8b-3430-4bcd-a089-946918ef096d-link\">1<\/a><\/sup> that this is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">the latest sign AI companies see people&#8217;s images and data as raw material to be exploited<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hollywood union Sag-Aftra called it an:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">utter miscalculation of public sentiment regarding the obvious dangers and harms inherent in such use<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This comes just months after Meta refused to listen to calls from its users and Mozilla to keep encrypted messaging in Instagram.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c2dy6e8klw0o\">Read more at BBC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-footnotes\"><li id=\"30f9bc8b-3430-4bcd-a089-946918ef096d\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cp9lee19y1yo\">Outcry as Meta lets users make AI images from public Instagram profile pics<\/a> <a href=\"#30f9bc8b-3430-4bcd-a089-946918ef096d-link\" aria-label=\"Jump to footnote reference 1\">\u21a9\ufe0e<\/a><\/li><\/ol>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been called an &#8220;utter miscalculation of public sentiment&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":68,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"[{\"content\":\"<a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cp9lee19y1yo\\\">Outcry as Meta lets users make AI images from public Instagram profile pics<\/a>\",\"id\":\"30f9bc8b-3430-4bcd-a089-946918ef096d\"}]"},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[34,39,37,40,15,38,41,35,36],"class_list":["post-67","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ai-news","category-success-stories","tag-bbc","tag-deepfake","tag-hollywood","tag-image-generation","tag-meta","tag-mozilla","tag-privacy","tag-privacy-international","tag-sag-aftra"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madebyhumans.international\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madebyhumans.international\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madebyhumans.international\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madebyhumans.international\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madebyhumans.international\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/madebyhumans.international\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77,"href":"https:\/\/madebyhumans.international\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions\/77"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madebyhumans.international\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madebyhumans.international\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madebyhumans.international\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madebyhumans.international\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}