Meta/Facebook's new AI image generation tool
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Meta’s new AI image generator was trained on 1.1 billion Instagram and Facebook photos
"Imagine with Meta AI" turns prompts into images, trained using public Facebook data.
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If you're on Facebook or Instagram, it's quite possible a picture of you (or that you took) helped train Emu. In a way, the old saying, "If you're not paying for it, you are the product" has taken on a whole new meaning. Although, as of 2016, Instagram users uploaded over 95 million photos a day, so the dataset Meta used to train its AI model was a small subset of its overall photo library.