If your Facebook feed isn’t already cluttered enough with shitty communities, generated images, and meaningless videos, Meta has another toy for you: AI users.
Many real users want bots to be a thing of the past, but Meta doesn’t think so. According to the Financial Times, the company is introducing AI-generated characters to Facebook with the aim of increasing engagement on the platform. These AI characters are created by users through Meta’s AI Studio and can be interacted with on the platform as if they were real humans.
“We anticipate that these AIs will eventually exist on our platforms as if they were accounts. They will have biographies, profile pictures, to create and share AI-generated content on top of the platform,” said Connor Hayes, VP of Generative AI Products at Meta.
Meta launched AI Studio this summer and it quickly became a hub for virtual men and women. In the future, access to AI Studio will be expanded to more countries. Over the next two years, the company will prioritize making user-AI interactions more social.
Leaving AI users “in the wild” carries huge security risks. Interaction with Character.AI bots could be outright dangerous as it violates its own restrictions and exposes children and adolescents to inappropriate content. In the opinion of the author of this news, Facebook is currently overloaded with junk content that provides no entertainment or profit, and whose sole purpose is to grab the attention of its users. Another similar feature could further “contaminate” the social network.
Source: The Byte
