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Instagram Begins Randomly Showing Users AI-Generated Images of Themselves (www.404media.co)

submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/fuck_ai

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Archive.today link.

More dystopian crap from Meta.

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[–] UnderpantsWeevil 48 points 3 days ago (2 children)

“Used Meta AI to edit a selfie, now Instagram is using my face on ads targeted at me,” the person posted. The user was shown a slideshow of AI-generated images in which an AI version of himself is standing in front of an endless “mirror maze.” “Imagined for you: Mirror maze,” the “location of the post reads.”

“Imagine yourself reflecting on life in an endless maze of mirrors where you’re the main focus,” the caption of the AI images say. The Reddit user told 404 Media that at one point he had uploaded selfies of himself into Instagram’s “Imagine” feature, which is Meta’s AI image generation feature.

Slight difference between playing with a new feature in your app and volunteering to have your image used in targeted ads.

Or maybe there isn't anymore. Maybe just having a phone with a camera automatically means you deserve everything the Mega-Corps do to you.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 days ago (3 children)

That is exactly what they think and there is no sympathy around here apparently.

People thinking that everyone should live their life like theirs and no room to enter in at other than already perfect.

Empathy is gone in 2025.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Most people lack empathy for self-inflicted injury, and the problem is that the perception of what is self-inflicted varies from person to person.

See, personally, I think anybody on any corporate social media verges on the self-inflicted by now, given that it's been common knowledge for years that Facebook and Google and and and are completely and utterly unhinged in their lack of humanity.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Perhaps I was just* naive but I caught on about Facebook long before Google.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Google's evil was more in the background; you had to be paying attention to find it until they decided that they were powerful enough to be openly evil.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

If Instagram had pulled an image from his phone's storage and then presented him with an ad using it, I'd be outraged.

He uploaded the photo to their platform, which means he loses control of what's done with it.

This isn't new or news. Facebook/Insta/Twitter have been shitty companies for years and years. Stop giving them your data.

[–] FlyingSquid 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I was massively downvoted elsewhere on Lemmy for suggesting that maybe joking about a suicide victim on the day of their suicide is not something that would be helpful for another suicidal person to see. But you know, fuck me for suggesting people have some thought for other people.

[–] Krudler 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You got downvoted for your tantrum

[–] FlyingSquid 2 points 2 days ago

I see. Two questions:

Who elected you to speak for everyone?
A two parter: a. How did I get massively downvoted for my "tantrum" long before I posted any other comments besides the first one which just said maybe this was not something to joke about? b. How do I get those future-predicting powers myself?

As a psychic yourself, I'm hoping you can answer 2b.