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Turn off this Meta setting before someone generates AI images of you

medmalwarebytes_blogPublished 2026-07-09

<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Every consumer app has a settings menu that lets you make decisions about things like notifications or dark mode. Meta has just decided that anyone can generate AI images of you from your public Instagram account by typing your Instagram handle into a prompt.</p>

<p class="wp-block-paragraph">On July 7, Meta <a href="https://ai.meta.com/blog/introducing-muse-image-

MITRE ATT&CK techniques

Email AddressesT1589.002
Multi-Factor AuthenticationT1556.006
ImpersonationT1684.001
Generative AIAML.T0016.002
ImpersonationAML.T0073

Indicators of compromise

https://ai.meta.com/blog/introducing-muse-image-muse-video-msl/url
https://www.oversightboard.com/news/board-calls-for-new-rules-on-deceptive-ai-during-conflicts/url
https://about.fb.com/news/2026/07/introducing-muse-image-meta-ai/url
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2dy6e8klw0ourl

Original source: https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/ai/2026/07/turn-off-this-meta-setting-before-someone-generates-ai-images-of-you