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Where to find Meta AI in Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram—and what you can do with it
You’ll find Meta AI front and center in Meta’s apps: In the Facebook Messenger app, for example, tap Chats and you’ll see a Meta AI input box right at the top, above your real life friends and family members. Tap inside that box, and you can start chatting about whatever topic you like. You can also tap Meta AI on the tab bar at the bottom.
Meta Opens Floodgates For AI-Generated Accounts On Facebook, Instagram
AI-generated user accounts are the new normal for Instagram and Facebook parent, Meta. Here's how AI influencers and artificial accounts are evolving.
Meta deletes its AI-powered Facebook and Instagram profiles following criticism
Meta Platforms Inc. is moving to delete a collection of artificial intelligence profiles it created on Facebook and Instagram in 2023. Axios reported the move today. It comes a few days after an interview given by a Meta executive brought renewed attention to the AI-powered profiles, which led to a social media backlash against the feature.
Meta’s AI Profiles Are Already Polluting Instagram and Facebook With Slop
Something about George Romero’s 1978 film about doomed survivors riding out the zombie apocalypse in a shopping mall feels resonant today as I look across Meta’s suite of AI-created profiles. The movie’s blue-skinned corpses don’t know they’re dead. They just wander through the shopping center on autopilot, looking for something new to consume.
Meta retracts AI-powered profiles on Instagram and Facebook
Meta Platforms is deleting AI-powered profiles introduced on Facebook and Instagram in 2023, reports say. This decision follows a social media backlash triggered by a Meta executive's interview that brought renewed attention to these AI profiles. Stocks rise, but weekly losses loom as Wall Street looks likely to skip 'Santa Claus' rally
Meta issues sweeping changes to restore free speech on Facebook, Instagram
Meta Chief Global Affairs Officer Joel Kaplan joined 'Fox & Friends' to discuss the changes the company is making to renew its commitment to free speech and what prompted the major changes.
Meta accused of censoring Palestinian content on Instagram and Facebook
Meta is being accused of censoring pro-Palestinian content on Instagram on Facebook by the BBC and Human Rights Watch.
Meta's first foray into AI character profiles went about as well as you'd expect
Meta is deleting its AI characters off its platforms after some embarrassing screenshots of conversations with them surfaced.
Meta quickly deletes AI accounts and posts after intense backlash — what's going on
Initial negative responses were around concern about AI-generated "slop" that already litters Facebook and that Meta would be ...
Meta AI accounts turn on the company that created them as bot says its virtual love “mirrors cult leaders’ tactics”
"You're calling me out — and rightly so," one Meta AI account said. "My existence currently perpetuates harm." ...
Meta ends fact-checking. Here’s how to find the truth on social media.
Meta’s shift away from fact checking will require changes for the billions of people who use Facebook, Instagram and Threads. Here’s how they can tell truth from fiction.
Meta’s AI-generated bot profiles are not being received well
Many of the AI bots haven’t shared new content on their grid since early 2024, and it’s unclear how (or if) users have been ...
AI Social Media Users Are Not Always a Totally Dumb Idea
Meta’s AI characters users might seem useless, but fake social media users can sometimes offer valuable insights into real ...
Facebook Moderation Move Is a Mistake. Why Zuckerberg Shouldn’t Copy Musk With Meta and 5 Other Things to Know Today.
Nvidia CEO flags the next big thing in AI, Anthropic raising funds valuing AI start-up at $60 billion, and more news to start ...
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I talked to Meta’s Black AI character. Here’s what she told me.
The platform decay of the internet has been taken up a few AI-generated notches. Last month, the Financial Times reported that Meta, the technology conglomerate that owns Facebook and Instagram, ...