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What Portrait Artists Need to Know About AI and Your Public Photos
What Portrait Artists Need to Know About AI and Your Public Photos I’ve been watching the intersection of artificial intelligence and professional photography with careful attention, and there’s something happening right now that deserves our collective focus. Meta has quietly activated an AI image generation feature that’s fundamentally changing how our public Instagram photos can be used—and honestly, it caught many of us off guard. The Default Setting That Changes Everything Here’s what’s happening: if you have a public Instagram profile, Meta’s new AI tools can now pull your photos and use them as training material or as references for generating new AI images.