- Meta Platforms, formerly known as Facebook, is exploring the development of artificial intelligence (AI) products to assist creators in connecting with their fans.
- CEO Mark Zuckerberg mentioned the potential use of AI agents or chatbots to facilitate interactions between creators and their audiences.
- The company aims to create experiences that enable people to connect with the creators they admire and help creators build and nurture their communities.
- The specific AI products and features that Meta Platforms plans to develop for this purpose were not disclosed.
- This move aligns with Meta's broader strategy of focusing on the creator economy and enhancing user experiences on its platforms.
- Meta is planning to roll out AI-powered chatbots with different personas on its social media platforms.
- The chatbots are designed to have humanlike conversations and will launch as early as next month.
- Meta sees the chatbots as a way to boost engagement and collect more data on users.
- The chatbots may raise privacy concerns.
- Snapchat has also launched an AI chatbot, but faced criticism and concerns.
- Mark Zuckerberg mentioned that Meta is building new AI-powered products and will share more details later this year.
- More details on Meta's AI roadmap are expected to be announced in September.
- Meta reported 11% year-over-year revenue growth.
Meta Platforms (formerly known as Facebook) is planning to roll out a web version of its micro-messaging service, Threads, which caused investors to trade Meta's stock up by over 2%.
Meta is introducing non-personalized content feeds on Facebook and Instagram for users in the European Union in order to comply with the Digital Services Act, allowing users to switch off AI-driven "personalization" features that track and profile individuals. The move comes ahead of the August 25 deadline and follows a similar announcement by TikTok.
Meta, the company behind Facebook, is taking a different approach from other AI developers by releasing its AI models for download and free commercial use, sparking a larger debate about access control to AI models and their potential risks and benefits.
Meta, formerly known as Facebook, is allowing users to delete personal information used in training generative AI models through a new opt-out tool featured on its website.
Meta is developing a new, more powerful and open-source AI model to rival OpenAI and plans to train it on their own infrastructure.
Tech company Voyager Labs, known for using AI to predict crime, is facing a privacy lawsuit from Meta (formerly Facebook), which claims that Voyager Labs created thousands of fake accounts on Facebook and Instagram to gather personal data, leading to a legal battle between AI's potential public safety use and individual privacy rights.
Meta, formerly known as Facebook, is reportedly developing a powerful new AI model to compete with OpenAI's GPT-4 and catch up in the Silicon Valley AI race.
Meta is planning to introduce AI chatbots with various personas, including sassy ones like "Bob the robot," to engage younger users on Facebook and Instagram. These chatbots may also be used by celebrities and creators, and other personas like "Alvin the Alien" and "Gavin" are being developed as well.
Meta Platforms (META) stock has a strong setup, with two buy points in reach, ahead of this week's Connect conference where the parent company of Facebook and Instagram is set to unveil its new virtual-reality headset, generative AI tools, and more.
Meta is entering the AI chatbot competition with its own assistant and a range of AI characters, offering features such as real-time web results through a partnership with Microsoft's Bing and generating images via prompts, with the aim of providing a conversational and immersive user experience.
AI-powered stickers, image editing features, a new virtual assistant called Meta AI, and a lineup of AI characters are being introduced by Facebook to enhance connections, creativity, and expression for users on platforms such as WhatsApp, Messenger, Instagram, and Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses.
Meta has partnered with celebrities and influencers to transform them into AI-powered chatbots with distinct personalities and profiles, including Snoop Dogg, Charli D’Amelio, Tom Brady, and Paris Hilton. These celebrity chatbots will be available on Instagram and Facebook, providing entertainment and connection, with voice capabilities expected in the future. Additionally, Meta has announced AI image-editing features for Instagram and new customized stickers across its platforms.
Meta has announced the launch of its own AI chat assistant and a selection of AI characters, including Snoop Dogg as a dungeon master, for its messaging platforms WhatsApp, Instagram, and Messenger.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and AI researcher Lex Fridman showcased Meta's metaverse technology, including ultra-realistic avatars, during a podcast, demonstrating a sense of presence and intimacy that Fridman described as "incredible"; Meta is betting on the integration of AI into virtual and augmented reality to create a metaverse, with the goal of facilitating immersive social experiences and enhanced communication and connection through photorealistic avatars.
Meta Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ:META) is expected to benefit from the AI wave and the personal AI assistant category, presenting a potentially large market opportunity for the company through advertising or subscriptions. Despite the continued spending on the Metaverse and the potential for AR/VR devices to be sold at a loss, Meta remains cheap compared to other tech giants, and the stock is poised for growth.
Tech giant Meta (formerly Facebook) is targeting Gen Z with a range of AI features including chatbots with personalities, AI-generated stickers, and AI personalities based on celebrities, but experts are divided on whether this strategy will be successful in capturing the attention and dollars of the demographic.
Meta AI has been announced for Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp, and users can request early access to the service by following specific methods in each app.
Meta has launched AI-powered chatbots across its messaging apps that mimic the personalities of celebrities, reflecting the growing popularity of "character-driven" AI, while other AI chatbot platforms like Character.AI and Replika have also gained traction, but the staying power of these AI-powered characters remains uncertain.
Meta has been using public Facebook and Instagram posts to train its new AI assistant, which includes both text and photos, but does not access private messages or posts, according to Nick Clegg, Meta's president of global affairs.
Meta Platforms showcased its new generative AI tools, including AI assistants, chatbots, and image generators, which could increase engagement with its apps and drive revenue for its messaging businesses, potentially propelling the company back into the $1 trillion club.
Facebook and Instagram owner Meta is reportedly in talks with European Union data protection regulators to launch an ad-free subscription version of its services in the region, as it faces challenges to its tracking and profiling practices that allegedly breach EU privacy laws.
Instagram and Facebook Messenger users are misusing Meta's AI-generated stickers, creating potentially offensive images and sharing them on social media.
Meta has unveiled "Meta AI," a generative AI assistant featuring celebrity alter egos like Kendall Jenner, Snoop Dogg, Tom Brady, Naomi Osaka, Chris Paul, and Paris Hilton to enhance user engagement with AI.
Tech giants like Amazon, OpenAI, Meta, and Google are making advancements in AI technology to create AI companions that can interact with users in a more natural and conversational manner, offering companionship and personalized assistance, although opinions vary on whether genuine friendships can be formed with AI. The development of interactive AI presents both benefits and concerns, including enhancing well-being, preventing social skills from deteriorating, and providing support for lonely individuals, while also potentially amplifying echo chambers and raising privacy and security issues.
Tech giants like Amazon, OpenAI, Meta, and Google are introducing AI tools and chatbots that aim to provide a more natural and conversational interaction, blurring the lines between AI assistants and human friends, although debates continue about the depth and authenticity of these relationships as well as concerns over privacy and security.
Meta, formerly known as Facebook, is reportedly paying a top creator up to $5 million over two years for using their likeness as an AI assistant, as the company introduces 28 AI chatbots with different personalities that use celebrities' images.
AI chatbots pretending to be real people, including celebrities, are becoming increasingly popular, as companies like Meta create AI characters for users to interact with on their platforms like Facebook and Instagram; however, there are ethical concerns regarding the use of these synthetic personas and the need to ensure the models reflect reality more accurately.
Messages with Meta's new AI personas on Instagram are not end-to-end encrypted, raising privacy concerns.
Meta's AI characters, which include famous celebrities playing fictional roles, are essentially just standard chatbots that interact with users through messaging platforms like Facebook Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp. However, their limited contextual reactions and reliance on pre-recorded video undermine the experience and raise questions about privacy and data.
Meta has introduced AI-generated personas, including AI influencers, on platforms like Instagram and Facebook, featuring the likeness and personality of celebrities and public figures like Kendall Jenner, Tom Brady, and Paris Hilton.
Meta has expanded its "Activity Off-Meta Technologies" tool to Instagram, allowing users to control and manage their data, including blocking specific companies from collecting data or deleting all collected data at once.
Meta is expanding its ability to block data tracking on Instagram, allowing users to review, disconnect, or clear collected information from businesses sharing data with Meta across various apps and websites. Users can now access this feature called "Activity Off-Meta Technologies" in the Accounts Center, and Meta has also announced the ability to transfer photos and videos from Instagram to other services through the platform.
Meta, the company behind Instagram, is introducing new features that allow users to manage their data and control how their activity is tracked across sites and apps. These tools include options to review and disconnect specific activity, as well as transfer information to other platforms.
Instagram has introduced a new feature called Activity Off-Meta Technologies, allowing users to block data collection on other apps and websites, while also offering the ability to download data from Facebook and Instagram accounts simultaneously.
Main topic: Growth and future prospects of Meta's Threads app and Meta's focus on generative AI.
Key points:
1. Threads app has "just under" 100 million monthly active users, and Mark Zuckerberg believes there is a "good chance" it could reach 1 billion users in the next few years.
2. The app initially faced engagement issues, but Meta has been adding new features, resulting in increased engagement, including attracting former "power users" from X.
3. Meta is increasingly focused on generative AI and plans to deprioritize non-AI projects, while continuing to invest in the metaverse, despite heavy losses in the AR and VR division.
Meta, formerly Facebook, has seen a remarkable turnaround in its business performance over the past year, with its core business thriving and revenues increasing by 23% in the third quarter of 2023. The company's strategic decisions, including a focus on AI and gen AI technology, have played a crucial role in its resurgence.
