Instagram is randomly showing users their AI-generated images on their timelines
2 months, 2 weeks ago

Instagram is randomly showing users their AI-generated images on their timelines

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According to Meta, the AI-generated images are not Meta seems intent on embedding AI-driven content deeper into its apps, even using AI-generated versions of users themselves to fill feeds with tailored, playful visuals. Image Credit: Reuters Instagram has started experimenting with a new feature where Meta’s AI generates images of users in imaginative scenarios and slips them into their feeds. According to the company, the AI-generated images are not How the “Imagine Yourself” feature works The “Imagine Yourself” tool allows users to upload multiple selfies, which Meta’s AI uses to create unique versions of them in creative settings. Meta seems intent on embedding AI-driven content deeper into its apps, even using AI-generated versions of users themselves to fill feeds with tailored, playful visuals.

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Meta’s AI-generated social media users unnerve human users
2 months, 2 weeks ago

Meta’s AI-generated social media users unnerve human users

The Hindu  

Meta has removed several AI-generated bot profiles on Instagram after users discovered them and reacted with a mixture of anger, disgust, and suspicion, according to multiple media outlets and social media users. The Instagram profiles displayed various personas, such as a dating coach, a writer, and a mother who was part of the LGBT community, reported The Verge. There were …

Meta scrambles to delete its own AI accounts after backlash intensifies
2 months, 2 weeks ago

Meta scrambles to delete its own AI accounts after backlash intensifies

CNN  

New York CNN — Meta deleted several of its own AI-generated accounts after human users began engaging with them and posting about the bots’ sloppy imagery and tendency to lie in chats with humans. “They’ll have bios and profile pictures and be able to generate and share content powered by AI on the platform... that’s where we see all of …

Meta May Introduce AI-Powered User Accounts on Facebook, Instagram
2 months, 3 weeks 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 …

Meta is planning to deploy millions of AI-bots on Facebook and Instagram as user base shrinks
2 months, 3 weeks ago

Meta is planning to deploy millions of AI-bots on Facebook and Instagram as user base shrinks

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These AI-bots, according to Meta’s vice-president of product for generative AI, Connor Hayes, will function similarly to traditional user accounts, complete with bios, profile pictures, and will have the ability to create and share AI-generated content As Meta grapples with declining popularity, particularly among younger audiences, its AI-driven strategy appears to be a bold—if controversial—attempt to maintain relevance. These bots, …

Instagram has a Bollywood deepfake problem
2 months, 3 weeks ago

Instagram has a Bollywood deepfake problem

The Hindu  

A heart-warming photo on Instagram shows Indian actor Deepika Padukone with her infant daughter, smiling lovingly at the baby. While these photos have garnered hundreds or even thousands of likes for various accounts, they are completely absent from both Padukone and Singh’s official Instagram handles, because the photos are deepfakes. “Content may be labelled automatically when it contains AI signals, …

Instagram teases AI video editing tool that will change backgrounds, outfits with a simple text prompt
3 months ago

Instagram teases AI video editing tool that will change backgrounds, outfits with a simple text prompt

India Today  

Instagram is taking content creation to the next level! With this new tool, creators will soon be able to tweak nearly every aspect of their videos using just a simple text prompt — no advanced editing skills required. "I’m super excited about Movie Gen, our early AI research model that will let you change nearly any aspect of your videos …

Instagram down: Users unable to send posts, messages, login failures reported
4 months ago

Instagram down: Users unable to send posts, messages, login failures reported

India TV News  

Instagram is currently experiencing a widespread outage that is affecting thousands of users around the world, with a notable number of reports coming from India. Over 1,500 users have indicated issues, with 70 percent citing problems with the app itself, 16 percent reporting server connection difficulties, and 14 percent unable to log into their accounts. This outage has caused considerable …

Instagram to integrate more AI features, enabling custom AI-generated profile pictures
4 months, 1 week 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 …

Celebrities fall for Instagram AI hoax
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Celebrities fall for Instagram AI hoax

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 Several celebrities have reposted a fake Instagram message that plays on concerns about …

Meta's 'Made with AI' Label Sparks Confusion by Misidentifying Genuine Content; Here's What's Happening
8 months, 3 weeks ago

Meta's 'Made with AI' Label Sparks Confusion by Misidentifying Genuine Content; Here's What's Happening

News 18  

Meta’s recent rollout of an AI-powered smart assistant across its apps — Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp — marks the dawn of an AI-driven era in one of its most critical markets, India. Meta’s “Made with AI” label, introduced to distinguish AI-generated content, has been inaccurately applied to real photos and videos. Meta introduced the “Made with AI” label to enhance …

AI-generated spam is starting to fill social media. Here's why
10 months, 1 week ago

AI-generated spam is starting to fill social media. Here's why

NPR  

AI-generated spam is starting to fill social media. toggle caption Facebook Morris isn't the only Facebook user whose feed has started to fill up with AI-generated spam. Sponsor Message "We saw AI-generated images of everything you can imagine, from log cabins to grandmas with birthday cakes to children with masterful paintings that just simply couldn't be real," said Josh Goldstein, …

Meta introduces advanced AI tools for advertisers on Facebook, Instagram
10 months, 2 weeks ago

Meta introduces advanced AI tools for advertisers on Facebook, Instagram

India TV News  

Meta, the company that owns Facebook and Instagram, has recently enhanced its AI tool by adding new features. This tool, called Meta AI, is specifically designed for advertisers to help them create more creative Meta has stated that their aim is to assist advertisers at every step of their journey, whether it's through improving performance, generating creative ideas, or automating …

Meta to Label AI-generated Content on Facebook, Instagram: Will Self-regulation Suffice in Deepfake Age?
1 year, 1 month ago

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

News 18  

In a groundbreaking move, Meta – the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and Threads – announced a new policy aimed at addressing the growing concern around AI-generated content. In a blog post, Nick Clegg, Meta’s president of global affairs, said: “While companies are starting to include signals in their image generators, they haven’t started including them in AI tools that …

Meta says it will label AI-generated images on Facebook and Instagram
1 year, 1 month ago

Meta says it will label AI-generated images on Facebook and Instagram

Associated Press  

Facebook and Instagram users will start seeing labels on AI-generated images that appear on their social media feeds, part of a broader tech industry initiative to sort between what’s real and not. It could be “quite effective” in flagging a large portion of AI-generated content made with commercial tools, but it won’t likely catch everything, she said. Meta’s president of …

Meta To Identify And Label AI Content Across FB, Instagram And Threads
1 year, 1 month ago

Meta To Identify And Label AI Content Across FB, Instagram And Threads

ABP News  

Social networking giant Meta is working to identify and label artificial intelligence -generated images across Facebook, Instagram and Threads as part of its efforts to identify and expose "individuals and organisations actively seeking to deceive people", this year, when both India and the US go to elections. The Facebook parent is building tools that can identify invisible markers at scale …

Meta will start labeling AI-generated images on Instagram and Facebook
1 year, 1 month ago

Meta will start labeling AI-generated images on Instagram and Facebook

NPR  

Meta will start labeling AI-generated images on Instagram and Facebook Enlarge this image toggle caption Fabrice Coffrini/AFP via Getty Images Fabrice Coffrini/AFP via Getty Images When an AI-generated image of the pope in a puffy white coat went viral last year, internet users debated whether the pontiff was really that stylish. Sponsor Message Meta, which owns all three platforms, said …

Instagram introduces 'Add Yours' templates with GIFs and text: What it is and how it works?
1 year, 3 months ago

Instagram introduces 'Add Yours' templates with GIFs and text: What it is and how it works?

India TV News  

Instagram introduces 'Add Yours' templates with GIFs and text: What it is and how it works? Instagram, owned by Meta, now allows users to create personalised "Add Yours" templates with GIFs, images, and text, promoting collaborative and creative storytelling in Stories. Instagram, under Meta's ownership, has introduced a new feature which allows users to craft personalised "Add Yours" templates enriched …

Meta's Standalone AI Image Generator Launched
1 year, 3 months ago

Meta's Standalone AI Image Generator Launched

ABP News  

In response to Google's Gemini artificial intelligence model launch, Facebook parent Meta is introducing Imagine with Meta, a standalone generative AI experience on the web. The company will roll out invisible watermarking to the new imagine with Meta AI experience in the coming weeks, in a bid to increase transparency and traceability of AI-generated images. Like OpenAI's DALL-E, Midjourney, and …

Instagram will soon let users make their own AI-powered chatbots
1 year, 4 months ago

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

India Today  

Imagine having a personal assistant who is available for you at all times. Instagram is reportedly working on a feature that will let users create their own, personalized, AI chatbots. Instagram to let users create their AI chatbots According to a report by TechCrunch, the upcoming feature could allow users to personalize the chatbots' gender, age, ethnicity, personality, and interests. …

Meta's new AI assistant trained on public Facebook and Instagram posts
1 year, 5 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 …

Facebook and Instagram users' photos and videos were used to train Meta's new AI assistant
1 year, 5 months ago

Facebook and Instagram users' photos and videos were used to train Meta's new AI assistant

India Today  

Artificial Intelligence has become one of the most talked-about technologies in the last couple of months. Meta AI trained on Instagram, Facebook posts The Reuters report quotes Meta's President of Global Affairs Nick Clegg saying that the company's recently-launched AI assistant largely trained on data publicly available on Facebook and Instagram. "We've tried to exclude datasets that have a heavy …

Meta releases 'human-like' AI image creation model
1 year, 9 months ago

Meta releases 'human-like' AI image creation model

The Hindu  

Meta Platforms said on Tuesday that it would provide researchers with access to components of a new "human-like" artificial intelligence model that it said can analyse and complete unfinished images more accurately than existing models. The model, I-JEPA, uses background knowledge about the world to fill in missing pieces of images, rather than looking only at nearby pixels like other …

Alarming findings: Instagram's disturbing role in promoting pedophiles and illegal content
1 year, 9 months ago

Alarming findings: Instagram's disturbing role in promoting pedophiles and illegal content

Hindustan Times  

Instagram, owned by Meta, has come under fire in a new report revealing its role as a platform for a "vast network" of pedophiles sharing and promoting illegal content. The investigation conducted by The Wall Street Journal, along with Stanford University and the University of Massachusetts, found that Instagram's algorithms actively connect and guide pedophiles to accounts that sell underage …

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