A TikTok user posted a video warning her that Instagram had added a disclaimer to her post, saying that she had edited the photo.
Vale’s (@missworldwid33) video has garnered more than 365,000 likes, and she captioned the screen telling viewers, “I want to sue Instagram…explain.”
At the beginning of the video, Vale asks, “Why on earth is Instagram telling everyone that I edited my photos?”
“Yeah, I edited it,” she admitted, looking into the camera before explaining that she used an app to smooth out her under-eye area.
After several sarcastic apologies, Vale added: “This doesn’t keep me up at night.”
“Thankfully it was on my … spam account,” she said, “and not my main account.” Photos from her account have been tagged as using AI-generated content.
“These aren’t AI-generated guys,” Vale says, “it’s me.” She emphasizes that the only edit she’s done to her photo is under her eyes, before jokingly adding, “My mistake,” at the end of the video.
The audience is shocked
Many viewers left further opinions in the comments section of Vale’s video about his Instagram updates over the years.
“I seriously haven’t heard a good Instagram update in years,” read the top comment.
“Even after all these updates it still doesn’t show who I unfollowed,” said another user.
“I can no longer see the exact date it was posted and it’s only a few weeks old now. Somehow the app gets worse every time Instagram updates,” one user added.
But more than 14,000 comments have questioned the accuracy of the information Vale allegedly found on Instagram. “I’m gonna be mad if someone doesn’t show me an example of this right now,” one comment read.
“I never trust Instagram’s change videos because no one shows examples,” another user added.
One user replied to these comments, explaining, “It literally says ‘AI INFO’ right under your username on the post.”
Does Instagram add disclaimers to edited photos?
Mobile Marketing Magazine As of July, Meta said it recognized the need to balance advances in AI technology with its responsibility to “ensure accurate and transparent content labeling.”
“The new ‘AI information’ label is intended to more accurately describe content that may have been altered using AI, rather than suggesting that the content was generated entirely by artificial intelligence,” they continue.
MetaFacebook, the parent company of media apps Instagram, Threads and WhatsApp, has changed the way it labels all social media posts suspected to have been generated by AI tools.
The Daily Dot reached out to Vahl through TikTok’s comments section and DMs, as well as via Meta via email.
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