“Meta’s AI Imaging: Transforming Prompts into Visuals, Trained with Public Facebook Data”

Explore the capabilities of ‘Imagine with Meta AI,’ a cutting-edge image generator website leveraging Meta’s Emu image synthesis model. Trained on a vast dataset of 1.1 billion publicly visible Facebook and Instagram images, this AI can bring written prompts to life with novel images. Previously exclusive to messaging and social networking apps like Instagram, Meta’s technology, powered by the same data, is now available across a wider digital landscape.

Your presence on Facebook or Instagram may have contributed to training Emu, Meta’s image synthesis model. In a modern twist to the saying, ‘If you’re not paying for it, you are the product,’ your pictures—either taken by you or of you—played a role. However, considering that Instagram users were uploading over 95 million photos daily as of 2016, the dataset used by Meta to train its AI model represents only a fraction of its extensive photo library.

Adjusting your privacy settings on Instagram or Facebook to limit access to your photos can help prevent Meta from including them in the training of its future AI models, unless the company changes that policy.

Imagine with Meta AI, like Stable Diffusion, DALL-E 3, and Midjourney, generates new images by leveraging the AI model’s understanding of visual concepts learned from the training data. To create images on the website, users need a Meta account, which can be imported from an existing Facebook or Instagram account. Each generation produces four 1280×1280 pixel images that users can save in JPEG format. The images feature a small “Imagined with AI” watermark logo in the lower left-hand corner.

“Meta shared that lots of people are having fun using ‘imagine,’ Meta AI’s cool feature that turns text into pictures, especially in chats. Now, they’re letting even more people use it outside of chats in the US. You can try it at imagine.meta.com! It’s like a special website just for creating fun pictures using Emu, their super cool image-making technology.”

Imagine with Meta AI