Meta, the parent company of social media titans such as Facebook and Instagram, has recently debuted new AI Bots that are available in a few different realms, and this invention has wowed many users across the platforms.
These bots have a few different variations, as they have debuted chatbots, and also Meta personas that one can personally be able to chat with. People across the platforms have mixed reactions, with some loving the different bots, and others worried about how it could take jobs, and what it would mean for the future.
The first variation of bots, the meta AI stickers, appear in Facebook Messenger and Instagram chats when one @ the stickers, and one can design each sticker to have a different animation by just typing what one wants next to the tag of it. Meta says the objective of rolling out the stickers feature is to present a user with “infinitely more options to convey how you are feeling at any moment.”
Users say they have already started using the stickers as FB user Greddie Fibbs has said “it helps me define what I need to convey at any moment I’m feeling it” and Rayshon Wright has said, “This is why I still use Facebook, it’s an underrated social media.” The stickers will be fully available over the next month on Messenger, FB and IG stories, and Instagram chats for users to make use of.
Another feature of the Meta AI Bots that has been unveiled is the 28 interactive AIs that are being developed across Facebook Messenger, Whatsapp, and Instagram chats. These 28 AIs will be based on 28 cultural icons who will play and voice the AIs, and give each their personality. Some of these celebrities include Charli D’Amelio, Chris Paul, Dwyane Wade, Israel Adesanya, Tom Brady, Naomi Osaka, Kendall Jenner, Paris Hilton, and Snoop Dogg. Each cultural icon will have its own personality and schtick that will be unique to them, and they will answer a user based on that. For example, Israel Adesanya’s AI is Luiz, a showy MMA prospect who backs up the trash talk, similar to what he does in real life, as the former UFC champion is known for being an outlandish personality inside of the octagon. All of these AIs have unique backgrounds, and they say it’s “more like talking to a regular person” and “gives a more natural feel.” These AIs are still undergoing more work and will be fully released to the world in the future, but many people can’t wait. Josh Adams, a huge Tom Brady fan, can’t wait to interact with Tom’s AI Bru and says “it will be fun interacting with his personality all of the time.”
A third feature is Meta AI Imagine, which is a text chat that one can tag and it will help you imagine certain objects. The way this works is Meta connects with Bing for real-life imaging, so if you want to imagine something, like say a beach a user thinks would be an awesome spot to vacation at, Meta will fix the location and enable a user to see it through Meta imagine. All a user needs to do is go in chat across the three apps, and write @Metaimagine, and what one wants it to show after, and the chat will generate an image after. There is also Meta image editing, which can change the watercolor and background on one’s image if one chooses to enable that. Meta is turning to AI in what they think will be a more customizable and fun experience for the user when they finish creating everything.
However, not all users are loving Meta’s new features. Facebook user Genesis Moore says she will never use the AI features saying, ” I can always google things and they are getting far too fancy.” She says she has “no interest” in it and would like her Facebook to stay the same. Other users in comment sections say “scary robots are taking over and getting people’s jobs” and “I don’t trust these robots” so there is definitely fear. However, Meta is firm about making this change, and says it will create the “best experience.”
