Meta’s Muse Image Shutdown: What Performers Should Know Meta has officially shut down Muse Image, the AI image generator it briefly tested inside Instagram. But for performers and creators, the story doesn’t end there. The positions of artists' unions and performers' rights advocates are straightforward: AI systems should not be allowed train on, replicate, or generate derivatives of a performer’s likeness or copyrighted work without informed consent and fair compensation.

As another school year begins, librarians, teachers and professors across the country gear up to not only return to their classrooms, but...