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17 Meta just pulled its most controversial AI image generation feature days after launch

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Shikhar Mehrotra @ Digital Trends 2 place · today 19:35 EDT

Meta just pulled its most controversial AI image generation feature days after launch

Meta launched then pulled a feature letting anyone generate AI images of public Instagram users who were opted in by default.

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