Meta Now Lets Anyone Use Your Instagram Photos in AI Images. Here's How to Opt Out 🚨

Welcome to another edition of Horizon AI,

Meta recently debuted a new image generation model across its products, called Muse Image. Aside from the technical improvements, the launch has also stirred up privacy concerns, as the new AI image maker can generate images using photos from public Instagram accounts without their owners ever knowing.

In today's issue, we share how you can easily opt out of this.

Let’s jump into it!

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Here's what's new today in the Horizon AI

• OpenAI Debuts New GPT-5.6 Models and ChatGPT Work Agent

• Meta Launches Muse Spark 1.1 for AI Coding

• AI Tutorial: How to Prevent Meta from Using Your Instagram Images in AI

• AI Tools to check out

AI News

OPENAI

OpenAI Debuts New GPT-5.6 Models and ChatGPT Work Agent

OpenAI announced the public release of GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna, roughly two weeks after the AI company limited the rollout to a "small group of trusted partners" at the request of the U.S. government.

Details:

• The GPT-5.6 lineup includes Sol, Terra, and Luna, offering high-performance, balanced, and budget-friendly options for developers and businesses.

• OpenAI says the new models are more efficient and cost-effective than previous generations, with Sol delivering significant improvements in AI coding while using fewer tokens.

• There’s also a new "max" reasoning effort mode and an "ultra" mode that uses coordinated subagents to solve highly complex tasks.

• The company describes GPT-5.6 as its strongest cybersecurity model yet, supporting tasks such as threat modeling, secure code review, vulnerability remediation, and defensive security testing.

• OpenAI also introduced ChatGPT Work, a new productivity assistant for enterprise teams that helps create documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and other workplace content across desktop, web, and mobile.

GPT-5.6 is now available through ChatGPT, Codex, and the OpenAI API, adding another major release to an increasingly competitive AI model landscape.

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META

Meta Launches Muse Spark 1.1 for AI Coding

Meta has released Muse Spark 1.1, the latest version of its AI coding model, expanding its efforts to compete with coding assistants from OpenAI and Anthropic.

Details:

• Muse Spark 1.1 is designed for agentic coding, allowing it to plan and execute multi-step development tasks, fix bugs, manage software workflows, and assist with large code migrations.

• Meta says the model performs well on tasks that require coordinating multiple tools and services, making it suitable for enterprise automation and software development workflows.

• The company is positioning Spark 1.1 as a low-cost alternative, with pricing of $1.25 per million input tokens and $4.25 per million output tokens.

• CEO Mark Zuckerberg described Spark as a model focused on agentic performance, tool use, and computer interaction, while also hinting that additional AI models are expected to follow.

The launch comes as competition in AI coding continues to intensify, with major AI companies rapidly releasing new models aimed at developers and enterprise users.

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AI Tutorial

How to Prevent Meta from Using Your Instagram Images in AI

Meta's new Muse Image came with a feature that lets users create AI images based on people's Instagram photos. The problem is: any adult with a public Instagram account is automatically opted in, and they won't even be notified when their photos are being used.

The easiest solution for those who want to opt out is to switch their public Instagram account to private.

But for those who want to keep their account public:

1. Head to your profile and tap the three horizontal lines in the top-right corner.

2. Scroll down to "Sharing and reuse."

3. Look for the option that says, "Allow people to use your content on Instagram with AI features on Meta."

4. Toggle the setting off for both posts and reels.

Note: The feature is currently available in the U.S., and Meta says it plans to expand it to Facebook and Messenger in the future.

AI Tools to check out

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🛑 Harold: Stop bad data entering your business. This tool extracts, checks, and fixes your documents before they hit your systems.

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