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The Morning After: Meta gives up on fact checking for Facebook and Instagram
The robot vacuum that can climb stairs, X’s Linda Yaccarino on Meta ending fact checking: ‘Welcome to the party’, Everything NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang announced at CES 2025.
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’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 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 users' could be the end for Instagram and Facebook
Despite users' frustrations with a deluge of automated bots and spam, the tech giant plans to allow people to create fully autonomous AI acc
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 wants AI characters to fill up Facebook and Instagram 'kind of in the same way accounts do,' but also had to delete a humiliating first run of its official bots
As reported by 404 Media, Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta has hastily deleted a swathe of experimental AI ...
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You May See an AI Version of Yourself as an Instagram Post: Here's How to Turn It Off
To opt out, the spokesperson said, users can tap the three dots on the top-right corner of a post and then select "Hide" to ...
Facebook and Instagram to Unleash AI-Generated ‘Users’ No One Asked For
While Meta’s other AI offerings, including photo-editing tools, a ChatGPT-like text bot, and forthcoming software for producing AI-generated video, have more readily obvious appeal, it’s far from ...
Meta's dream of AI-generated users isn't going anywhere
Meta took down a few reviled AI-generated users. But that's not the end of the story. It still sees more AI bots talking to you in the future.
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Bot profiles on Facebook and Instagram? Why Meta launched and deleted its AI-generated bots
Meta initially believed that launching AI-generated profiles would be a good idea, but they had to reconsider after receiving ...
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 ...
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After Meta's "free speech" pivot, AI faces a no-rules world
Tech's rightward lurch toward anything-goes rules for the online world comes at a formative moment for AI. Why it matters: ...