Meta, which operates Facebook and Instagram, launched a function to create artificial intelligence (AI) images using photos published on social networking services (SNS), but withdrew it after three days as user backlash grew. Meta announced on its official blog on the 10th (local time) that it will no longer provide the function to create images using public Instagram accounts in its AI image creation model ‘Muse Image’. This is a function that calls up a public Instagram account and creates a new AI image by referring to the photos posted on the account.Meta previously released Muse Image, the first image creation model developed by its Superintelligence Lab (MSL), on the 7th. This model allows users to create images and edit existing photos by describing the scene they want in everyday language. Users could also use photos posted on public Instagram accounts as reference material for image creation. Because of this, there was a backlash among users that photos posted on public accounts could be used to create AI images without separate prior consent.