Monday, July 13, 2026

Meta Pulls Instagram AI Update After Everyone Said They Didn't Want to Be Deepfaked; CNET, July 13, 2026

 Katelyn Chedraoui, CNET; Meta Pulls Instagram AI Update After Everyone Said They Didn't Want to Be Deepfaked

"After intense backlash last week, Meta pulled the most troubling part of its newest AI update on Instagram. You will no longer be easily able to create deepfakes of other Instagram users.

"We've heard the feedback that this feature missed the mark, so it's no longer available," Meta wrote on Friday in an update to its announcement blog post.

Last week, in an attempt to prove that Meta's billion-dollar leap into generative AI had purpose, the company brought its newest AI image model to Instagram. It came with a new ability to "tag" any public Instagram accounts and include those people in photorealistic AI images -- essentially creating deepfakes."

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