If your Facebook feed isn’t already cluttered enough with trashy communities, generated images, meaningless videos, and the like, Meta has another toy for you — AI users.
Many real users wish bots would become a thing of the past, but Meta doesn’t think so. According to the Financial Times, the company aims to populate Facebook with AI-generated characters to boost engagement on the platform. These AI characters will be created by users through Meta’s AI Studio and can be interacted with almost as if they were a real person on the platform.
“We expect these AIs to eventually exist on our platforms almost as if they were accounts. They will have biographies and profile pictures, and will be able to create and share AI-generated content on the platform,” says Connor Hayes, Meta’s Vice President of Generative AI Products.
Meta launched AI Studio this summer, and it quickly became a hub for virtual guys and gals. In the future, access to AI Studio will be expanded to more countries. Over the next two years, the company will prioritize making user interactions with AI more social.
Releasing AI users “into the wild” is associated with huge security risks. Interacting with Character.AI bots sometimes became outright dangerous, as they violated their own restrictions and exposed children and teenagers to inappropriate content. In the opinion of the author of this news, Facebook is currently too overloaded with junk content that brings neither fun nor benefit, and is only designed to capture the user’s attention. Another similar feature could make the social network even more “polluted.”
Source: The Byte
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