{"id":1020541,"date":"2026-07-13T11:27:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T05:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1020541"},"modified":"2026-07-13T11:27:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T05:57:25","slug":"metas-ai-reality-check-why-consent-is-the-next-battleground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/13\/metas-ai-reality-check-why-consent-is-the-next-battleground\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta\u2019s AI reality check: Why consent is the next battleground"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Silicon Valley has always worked on a simple assumption: If a technology is good enough, people will eventually accept it. This week, Meta found out that isn&#8217;t always true. Just days after unveiling Muse Image, its new AI image generator, the company pulled one of the product&#8217;s headline features. Users could create AI-generated images by simply @-mentioning public Instagram accounts, allowing the model to reference photographs from those profiles. Account owners wouldn&#8217;t necessarily know when their images had been used, and the feature was switched on by default unless they opted out.<\/p>\n<p>The reaction was immediate. Artists questioned whether their work had become free training material. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Silicon Valley has always worked on a simple assumption: If a technology is good enough, people will eventually accept it. This week, Meta found out that isn&#8217;t always true. Just days after unveiling Muse Image, its new AI image generator, the company pulled one of the product&#8217;s headline features. Users could create AI-generated images by simply @-mentioning public Instagram accounts, allowing the model to reference photographs from those profiles. Account owners wouldn&#8217;t necessarily know when their images had been used, and the feature was switched on by default unless they opted out. The reaction was immediate. Artists questioned whether their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1020541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1020541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1020542,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020541\/revisions\/1020542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1020541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1020541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1020541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}