If You Have a Public Instagram Account, You Might Be Surprised What AI Users Can Now Do With Your Face
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Public social feeds are now de facto training and inference corpora for face-based AI — opting out is becoming an operational privacy decision, not just a UX preference. Brands and executives with high-visibility accounts should assume their likeness can be cloned and plan comms, legal, and verification accordingly.
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