Meta shipped its first in-house image generator, Muse Image, this week, and chief AI officer Alexandr Wang posted on X the day of launch, calling the feature "personal." Muse Image, which launched Tuesday out of Meta Superintelligence Labs, lets anyone open the Meta AI app, tag a public Instagram handle, and generate fresh AI images built from that person's published photos and reels, with no permission request and no heads-up. Meta confirms in a help document that you won't be notified when someone remixes your face this way. Every adult with a public account was opted in automatically, and the tool pulls "part or all" of the account's photos. Gizmodo's Mike Pearl tested the feature, generating images of a real-world acquaintance he'd never followed or interacted with on Instagram—effectively a digital stranger—without that person knowing, and also of Mark Zuckerberg and an ordinary friend. A Meta spokesperson said Muse Image blocks violent, sexual, or defamatory imagery of real people, and that content breaking its Community Standards gets enforced; underage public accounts are walled off, and teens can't use the tool on others. Muse Image sits at No. 2 on the Arena leaderboard for text-to-image.