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No, the person uploaded their photo to Meta AI to get a picture with some background, once. They then started seeing ads for MetaAI offering to generate more images of them, for a cost. Only the ads were still using their face from the photo they only uploaded once.

This is like using an online photo editing tool once, and then seeing ads to that photo editing tool show up on the internet, still using the image you up loaded that one time.

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Except the ads don't show up anywhere "on the internet", they only show up on the photo editing site.

The photo editing site was "MetaAI", the display site was Instagram.

They may have the same parent, but are distinct entities.

There’s no cost to generate more images.

There's no cost to watch other shows on HBO, but the 2 minute promo they play for a different HBO show before playing the show you requested is 100% an ad.

Fine if you call it an ad, but it doesn’t change the fact that the feature is free of cost.

My time is not free. My attention is not something I've ceded control of to HBO to do whatever the hell they please just because I want to watch The Sopranos.

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