A new tool that let people take publicly posted Instagram photos and use AI to generate new images from them drew such a big backlash in Hollywood that Meta has discontinued one of the features.

Meta has abruptly taken down a new feature that allowed people to use its artificial intelligence (AI) tool to make fake images from user content on Instagram.

The feature, which wasn't designed to alert a user if their photos were used in this way, prompted immediate backlash.

The European Union accused Meta on Friday of breaching its social media law by designing Facebook and Instagram to get users hooked, and demanded it disable “key addictive features” like infinite scro...

The EU announced on Friday that Meta must overhaul Facebook's and Instagram's addictive design features or face a fine.