Instagram working to let people make AI ‘friends’ to talk to
1 year, 2 months ago

Instagram working to let people make AI ‘friends’ to talk to

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Instagram is working to let people create AI “friends” that they can talk to, code within the app appears to suggest. But the new tool seems specifically aimed at allowing people to overcome boredom or loneliness by letting people choose their AI friend’s personality and then have conversations with them. The AI friend would then get a name and a face and users could chat with them through Instagram’s direct messages feature. He said recently that the company doesn’t “think we necessarily want there to be one big super intelligence” and instead would build different artificial intelligence systems that can be spoken to in different contexts.

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Meta May Introduce AI-Powered User Accounts on Facebook, Instagram
6 days, 22 hours ago

Meta May Introduce AI-Powered User Accounts on Facebook, Instagram

Deccan Chronicle  

Tech giant Meta might introduce AI bots on its social media platforms Facebook and Instagram. Meta has already introduced AI features to the platforms, and now the social media giant is planning for AI-powered user accounts. “We expect these AIs to actually, over time, exist on our platforms, kind of in the same way that accounts do,” Connor Hayes, vice-president …

Instagram to integrate more AI features, enabling custom AI-generated profile pictures
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Instagram to integrate more AI features, enabling custom AI-generated profile pictures

India TV News  

Meta is introducing new AI features across all its social media platforms. Recently, a developer discovered that Meta is working on an exciting new feature for Instagram, the popular photo-sharing app. This upcoming feature will allow users to create their own profile pictures using AI technology. The developer, Alessandro Paluzzi, found this new option while updating his profile picture on …

Instagram adds AI lip-sync to automatically translate posts
3 months, 1 week ago

Instagram adds AI lip-sync to automatically translate posts

The Independent  

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Instagram Will Let You Make Custom AI Chatbots—Even Ones Based on Yourself
55 years ago

Instagram Will Let You Make Custom AI Chatbots—Even Ones Based on Yourself

Wired  

Meta announced today that it will offer people a tool called AI Studio to build virtual characters with custom personalities, traits, and interests—including ones based on their own personalities. “Every creator can build an AI version of themselves or an assistant that their community can interact with,” Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said during a SIGGRAPH conference fireside chat with Jensen …

AI and alt-X: Behind the hunt for more social media users
5 months, 2 weeks ago

AI and alt-X: Behind the hunt for more social media users

Hindustan Times  

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Meta introduces advanced AI tools for advertisers on Facebook, Instagram
8 months ago

Meta introduces advanced AI tools for advertisers on Facebook, Instagram

India TV News  

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Meta hits 3.24 billion users with 150 million monthly active users
8 months, 2 weeks ago

Meta hits 3.24 billion users with 150 million monthly active users

India TV News  

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Meta’s newest AI model beats some peers. But its amped-up AI agents are confusing Facebook users
8 months, 3 weeks ago

Meta’s newest AI model beats some peers. But its amped-up AI agents are confusing Facebook users

Associated Press  

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Meta testing AI-powered search for Instagram
8 months, 3 weeks ago

Meta testing AI-powered search for Instagram

The Hindu  

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‘AI Girlfriends’ Are a Privacy Nightmare
10 months, 3 weeks ago

‘AI Girlfriends’ Are a Privacy Nightmare

Wired  

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Meta-owned Instagram working on AI messaging tool for users: What to expect?
11 months ago

Meta-owned Instagram working on AI messaging tool for users: What to expect?

India TV News  

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Meta to Label AI-generated Content on Facebook, Instagram: Will Self-regulation Suffice in Deepfake Age?
11 months ago

Meta to Label AI-generated Content on Facebook, Instagram: Will Self-regulation Suffice in Deepfake Age?

News 18  

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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg was warned that Instagram and Facebook could go extinct, here is why
1 year, 1 month ago

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg was warned that Instagram and Facebook could go extinct, here is why

India Today  

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WhatsApp will soon allow users to share status photos and videos on Instagram, here is how
1 year, 1 month ago

WhatsApp will soon allow users to share status photos and videos on Instagram, here is how

India Today  

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Instagram will soon let users make their own AI-powered chatbots
1 year, 2 months ago

Instagram will soon let users make their own AI-powered chatbots

India Today  

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Meta unveils ‘creepy’ AI chatbot that looks exactly like Kendall Jenner
1 year, 2 months ago

Meta unveils ‘creepy’ AI chatbot that looks exactly like Kendall Jenner

The Independent  

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Meta's new AI assistant trained on public Facebook and Instagram posts
1 year, 3 months ago

Meta's new AI assistant trained on public Facebook and Instagram posts

The Hindu  

Meta Platforms used public Facebook and Instagram posts to train parts of its new Meta AI virtual assistant, but excluded private posts shared only with family and friends in an effort to respect consumers' privacy, the company's top policy executive told Reuters in an interview. Meta also did not use private chats on its messaging services as training data for …

Meta launches AI chatbots with ‘personalities’ to take on ChatGPT
1 year, 3 months ago

Meta launches AI chatbots with ‘personalities’ to take on ChatGPT

The Independent  

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Meta Connect 2023: Mark Zuckerberg unveils AI assistant, Facebook-streaming glasses
1 year, 3 months ago

Meta Connect 2023: Mark Zuckerberg unveils AI assistant, Facebook-streaming glasses

Hindustan Times  

Meta Platforms Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday rolled out new AI products for consumers, including bots that create photo-realistic images and smart glasses that answer questions, as well as an updated virtual-reality headset. Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer of Meta Platforms Inc., during the Meta Connect event in Menlo Park, California, US, on Wednesday Zuckerberg described the products as …

No More Loneliness? Meta is launching AI-powered chatbots for people to ‘befriend’, chat with on Facebook
1 year, 5 months ago

No More Loneliness? Meta is launching AI-powered chatbots for people to ‘befriend’, chat with on Facebook

Firstpost  

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Reluctant Twitter users, influencers and others are flocking to Meta's new Threads app
1 year, 5 months ago

Reluctant Twitter users, influencers and others are flocking to Meta's new Threads app

The Independent  

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Reluctant Twitter users, influencers and others are flocking to Meta’s new Threads app
1 year, 5 months ago

Reluctant Twitter users, influencers and others are flocking to Meta’s new Threads app

Associated Press  

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Thousands chatted with this AI ‘virtual girlfriend.’ Then things got even weirder
1 year, 6 months ago

Thousands chatted with this AI ‘virtual girlfriend.’ Then things got even weirder

LA Times  

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Hinge user questions whether ‘weird’ profiles on dating app are AI bots: ‘What is going on?’
1 year, 8 months ago

Hinge user questions whether ‘weird’ profiles on dating app are AI bots: ‘What is going on?’

The Independent  

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Instagram co-founders are building an AI-based news reading app
1 year, 11 months ago

Instagram co-founders are building an AI-based news reading app

The Hindu  

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