Meta pulls AI image feature Muse days after launch following 'missed the mark' privacy backlash

The Print—Meta scrapped its newly launched Muse AI image tool from Instagram within days of release after widespread backlash over both privacy concerns and accuracy failures. The company acknowledged the product 'missed the mark' on users' privacy and removed it. Critics said the feature used personal data in intrusive ways, and accuracy complaints compounded the pressure to pull it.

• The Print — Meta scraps newly launched AI image feature over privacy concerns
• Hindustan Times — Meta cancels a newly launched AI image feature just days after release following public privacy and accuracy complaints.
• The Indian Express — Backlash cited both accuracy problems and privacy concerns
• Guardian — Meta's own statement admitted Muse 'missed the mark' on users' privacy
• ABC Australia — Instagram pulls new AI feature after widespread backlash
• The Straits Times — ‘Missed the mark’: Meta scraps AI image feature days after launch following privacy backlash
• The National (UAE) — Meta forced to pull Muse AI image tool amid backlash over privacy
• NDTV — Meta Discontinues AI Image Feature Days After Backlash Over Privacy Concerns
• RNZ — Missed the mark': Meta removes AI feature on Instagram after global backlash
• BBC — World — Meta pulls new AI image feature after days of backlash
• Al Jazeera — Meta backtracks on AI-image feature for Instagram due to privacy backlash
• TechCrunch — Feature removed from Instagram after global backlash within days of launch
• Reuters — Meta scraps AI image feature days after launch following privacy backlash