instagram received a surprise visit. Meta ai, the company's ai-powered chatbot that can answer questions, write poetry, and generate images with a simple text message, is available in your direct messages. Meta warned that Meta ai was coming and spent the last few months adding the chatbot to products like facebook Messenger and WhatsApp. We all knew instagram would be next.
“Our ai-powered generative experiences are in development in several phases, and we are testing a variety of them publicly in a limited capacity,” a Meta spokesperson told Engadget. For some of us at Engadget, the feature appeared in the instagram Direct Messaging inbox.
We could tap it to start a conversation with Meta ai, where it could give definitions of words, suggest headlines, and… generate images of dogs on skateboards.
Ah, the future.
-Mat Smith
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