🇨🇦 How to opt out so Meta's new AI image generator won't use your personal Instagram photos

Opt out is the tell. Meta automatically enrolled adult users with public Instagram accounts, then acted like a couple clicks is some grand act of consent. Translation: your face, your likeness, your content are now raw material for the machine unless you dig through settings and shut it off yourself, as reported. That is not user control. That is platform entitlement wrapped in safety guardrails PR.

And this is the modern regime in miniature: default extraction first, public backlash later, accountability never. Private accounts and under-18s are excluded, so they clearly know where the legal landmines are. For everyone else, the assumption is simple: if it is public, the tech cartel owns the downstream value. In Canada, even the settings language is vague, with reuse toggles that barely mention AI. Convenient. The same elites who sermonize about consent and digital safety somehow go silent when giant platforms vacuum up identity and culture for automated remixing. Sovereignty is not just borders. It is control over your own image, data, and life.

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