Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta took down a new artificial intelligence model for Instagram on Friday, just days after debuting this feature to immediate public backlash. The company

Meta is discontinuing an AI feature launched this week that allowed users to generate images using public Instagram accounts.

Meta has pulled the plug on a feature of a recently launched AI tool following criticism that it made Instagram accounts fodder for use in creating AI-generated images

Meta said that its new feature allowing users to generate AI images from public Instagram posts is no longer available.