Meta Plans To Put AI Everywhere on Its Platforms

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced a plan to employees on Thursday that will see it put generative AI text, image and video generators into its flagship products, such as Facebook and Instagram. From a report: At an all-hands meeting with workers on Thursday, Zuckerberg announced a range of technologies at various stages of development, with some for internal use but many designed directly for consumers. One, for example, will allow customers to use a text prompt to modify their own photos and share them in Instagram Stories.

Another will bring AI agents with different personalities and capabilities to help or entertain. That's focused initially for use in Messenger and WhatsApp. The company is also hosting an internal hackathon in July focused on generative AI.

AI everywhere!

[Anonymous Coward]

Will they put AI in their AI? Reminds me of the scene [youtube.com] in Being John Malkovich where John Malkovich visits inside himself...

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[Anonymous Coward]

Or the "Hot Pocket Hot Pocket [youtu.be]" by Jim Gaffigan.

In days of old

[dsgrntlxmply]

Back in the Veet Nam era we claimed that ARPA funded artificial Intelligence research, due to a demonstrated deficiency of the natural product. Little has changed in 50 years.

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[Motleypuss]

About all the natural product has going for it, IMO, is that it can hallucinate about as well as current AI when supplied with enough drugs...

Why?

[narcc]

What value does he think this will add?

Zuck is scrambling. The VR thing didn't work out, so he's off to the next fad!

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[Osgeld]

he doesn't know, he is throwing a bowl of spaghetti at the wall and seeing what sticks, that's his brilliant plan

Re:Why?

[nospam007]

"he doesn't know, he is throwing a bowl of spaghetti at the wall and seeing what sticks, that's his brilliant plan"

Was this Pastafarian sacrilege really appropriate, you apostate?

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[Osgeld]

ok I have to admit I had to look up apostate, but since we are feeling fancy, to quote text you can use quote and /quote with the less than sign starting the word and the greater than sign ending the word

so
"he doesn't know, he is throwing a bowl of spaghetti at the wall and seeing what sticks, that's his brilliant plan"

ends up as

he doesn't know, he is throwing a bowl of spaghetti at the wall and seeing what sticks, that's his brilliant plan

now we both learned something today

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[nospam007]

Since my user-id is 1178330 earlier than yours, you can imagine that I already know.

I use a special (broken) keyboard and the workarounds are just too much.

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[byronivs]

Apastate?

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[nospam007]

"Apastate?"

Good catch!

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[kmoser]

1. Move fast
2. Add AI and break things
3. Spend lots of time removing the AI you shouldn't have added in the first place
4. Profit???

Re: Why?

[e3m4n]

Obviously he is doing it to make it look like people are populating his piece of shit platform. In reality its a ton of GPT avatars. Your own personal truman show.

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[Luckyo]

On instagram, women using AI image filters like they use makeup in real life has gone from edge case to norm. Improving on this with "just describe what you want to make yourself look like" rather than requiring experimentation sounds like an instant success with massive demand. And if you want to find women online, instagram is where most of them are at.

Not entirely sure what the point of "entertaining AI" is in the messenger and whatsapp though. Those are messaging software, where relaying messages is the

Re: Why?

[Bobknobber]

It actually makes sense from a very long-term perspective.

The likely long-term goal here is to implement not only generative content, but also generative users. Talking bots that can pass themselves off as users, complete with realistic conversations and whatnot. In effect you could artificially populate your platforms with fake users that give the illusion of a thriving, human-centric network.

In effect, this would create a self-sustaining social media platform. Bots that consume and create content, while a

You made LLAMA, might as well use it

[Dwedit]

Well you guys made LLAMA, you might as well use it. I have no doubt they could replicate any of the LLAMA models floating around, like Vicuna or whatever.

Just use it *responsibly*. AI chatbots are good at a limited range of things, and they love to make things up all the time.

Facebook will have to change its name again

[ranton]

Too bad CS.ai has already taken the AI stock ticker.

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[Tony Isaac]

How about "MetaAI". It fits. Not quite AI, sort of a fake AI that resembles the real thing.

Vs Natural Intelligence

[sit1963nz]

I already spend only a few minute a day to see what family do.
already run ad blockers, periodically clean out the "Do you know these people" as I dont care.

so the next step will be to use my natural intelligence to just leave as FB becomes even more avaricious and intrusive

Give me a nice conversation and a drink (tea/coffee/beer) ov er a useless "Like" or "Blue tick" anyway. Better yet, there are zero adds and zero tracking happening.

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[Seven Spirals]

As a person who never had a Facebook account, I don't feel left out; I feel lucky. I'm with you, I'll take my human interactions in person, thanks.

So is this just Facebook jerking itself off?

[The Faywood Assassin]

If they're just using AI to help users generate content, what is the point of users?

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[nospam007]

"If they're just using AI to help users generate content, what is the point of users?"

Their AI creates content itself and the AIs of the users watch it.

And we watch to see when one AI detects that the other is also an AI or if they just don't care.

Mark be like Oprah

[thesjaakspoiler]

An AI for you, and an AI for you and an AI for everyone!

It's got to be AI

[RUs1729]

After all, they seem have been short on NI for a while now.

In the MetaVerse...

[Tony Isaac]

Will AI be something that's not quite AI? Maybe AI with no legs?

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[Motleypuss]

Wake me when they get inverse kinematics working on all limbs.

At least something will be posting on facebook

[sir_smashalot_3rd]

because last time I checked (for the first time in a year) it was a barren wasteland of adds and clickbait. Hardly a single post from anyone and the few post actual hardly had a single like, let alone comment.

enshitification

[stealth_finger]

enshitification gotta enshitificate

Get ahead of this

[dknj]

Download all of your Facebook data if you have any, train a LoRa adapter on your Facebook posts and messages. Use your personalGPT to post new comments on Facebook. Lather rinse repeat with instagram and stable diffusion

eveything everywhere, all the time

[groobly]

Zuckerberg is flailing to find the silver bullet that will finally kill facebook and instagram.

I'm sorry Mark,...

[VeryFluffyBunny]

...I'm afraid I can't do that.

If they could just auto-transcribe audio messages

[chester_br]

That would be an excellent use of AI. In my birth country, WhatsApp is synonymous with telecommunications, and people love the convenience of dropping audio messages (to the horror of those like me, who have a life and canâ€(TM)t hear all those audios). Turning that into text would be some great use of AI.