AI, Meta and Facebook

Meta shuts down its AI character accounts that users called ‘creepy and unnecessary’
Since late 2023, around a dozen AI Instagram and Facebook accounts created by their social media parent company Meta quietly existed on the platforms.
Meta shuts down AI character accounts on Facebook, Instagram after outcry
Since late 2023, around a dozen AI Instagram and Facebook accounts created by their social media parent company Meta quietly existed on the platforms.
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,
Meta Deleted Its Controversial AI Profiles. Here’s Why.
Meta still has plans to use AI to drive engagement on its platforms, though. On Friday, images of Instagram accounts labelled as “AI managed by Meta ” began circulating on social media platforms. But following online backlash,
Meta deletes 2023 AI-generated profiles after uproar
The AI-generated Instagram profile of a "proud Black queer momma of two" has been removed along with the profiles of 27 other AI personas first launched in 2023. The big picture: The profile became unavailable on Friday immediately following widespread social media outrage and concerns about "digital blackface as a service,
Meta’s AI-generated bot profiles are not being received well
The celebrity-based bots were killed off last summer after less than a year, but users have recently been finding a handful of other, entirely fake bot profiles still floating around — and the reaction is not good.
Meta’s Terrible AI Profiles Are Going Viral
The company has its own AI model, Llama, has added "Meta AI" to all of its big products—whether you like it or not (you don't). Meta even wants you to try making your own AI bot. It's safe to say the company is all-in on AI.
Meta scrambles to delete its own AI accounts after backlash intensifies
Meta promptly deleted several of its own AI-generated accounts after human users began engaging with them and posting about ...
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 ...
Meta says the crappy AI bots going viral this week aren't the ones they're excited about
Earlier this week, Connor Hayes, a Meta exec, told Financial Times that the platform was planning on rolling out “hundreds and thousands” of AI-generated characters that would “exist on our platforms, ...
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Meta envisages social media filled with AI-generated users
“We expect these AIs to actually, over time, exist on our platforms, kind of in the same way that accounts do,” said Connor Hayes, vice-president of product for generative AI at Meta. “They’ll have ...
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Meta will invest in AI-generated characters and profiles to drive up engagement
RACIAL BIAS IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: TESTING GOOGLE, META, CHATGPT AND MICROSOFT CHATBOTS "They'll have bios and profile pictures and be able to generate and share content powered by AI on ...
Instagram users discover old AI-powered “characters,” instantly revile them
The September 2023 launch of Meta's social profiles for AI characters was announced alongside a much splashier initiative that created animated AI chatbots with celebrity avatars at the same time.