Meta’s AI-generated bot profiles are not being received well
Many of the AI bots haven’t shared new content on their grid since early 2024, and it’s unclear how (or if) users have been finding and engaging with these profiles over the past year. Last week, the Financial Times reported that Meta envisions a future where social media platforms are filled with AI bots.
Bot profiles on Facebook and Instagram? Why Meta launched and deleted its AI-generated bots
Meta initially believed that launching AI-generated profiles would be a good idea, but they had to reconsider after receiving backlash from the public.
Meta's first foray into AI character profiles went about as well as you'd expect
Meta is deleting its AI characters off its platforms after some embarrassing screenshots of conversations with them surfaced.
Meta takes down AI bot profiles on Instagram, Facebook
Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, has been facing backlash over its celebrity-mimicking AI chatbots. The bots were introduced in September 2023 and were designed to replicate famous personalities like Kendall Jenner and MrBeast on Instagram and Facebook.
Meta quickly deletes its AI bot accounts on FB after users’ outrage
Meta Platforms scrambled to remove its own AI-generated accounts from the Facebook platform following an outcry from users.
Meta Deleted Its Controversial AI Profiles. Here’s Why
Quickly, people began criticizing them. Some compared the AI-powered personas to the Netflix sci-fi series Black Mirror, while others used it as proof of the “dead internet theory,” a conspiracy theory that the majority of the internet is currently made up of AI and bot-created content.
Meta quickly deletes AI accounts and posts after intense backlash — what's going on
Initial negative responses were around concern about AI-generated "slop" that already litters Facebook and that Meta would be directly feeding into the feeds itself. The more prominent backlash came as people discovered the accounts describing themselves as actual people with racial and sexual identities.
Meta sends its AI-generated profiles to hell where they belong
Meta has nuked a bunch of its AI-generated profiles from Facebook Instagram, the company confirmed, after the AI characters prompted widespread outrage and ridicule from users on social media. The AI-generated profiles,
Meta deletes AI character profiles after backlash, racism accusations
Meta has shut down its AI character accounts after backlash, NBC News and others have reported. While Meta launched these characters in 2023, along with AI personas with celebrity avatars, many online (re)discovered them this week following a recent Financial Times interview with Meta's VP of product for generative AI,
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,
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,
Where to find Meta AI in Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram—and what you can do with it
You’ll find Meta AI front and center in Meta’s apps: In the Facebook Messenger app, for example, tap Chats and you’ll see a ...
Meta’s Terrible AI Profiles Are Going Viral
Meta's AI accounts are going viral. The company created the accounts to go along with their AI chatbots back in 2023, and ...
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Meta's fake Instagram profiles are the most depressing AI development yet
From a fake textiles class with OAPs to, perhaps the most depressing example, non-existent donated coats, the images shared ...
Meta's fake Instagram profiles are everything that's wrong with AI
From a fake textiles class with OAPs to, perhaps the most depressing example, non-existent donated coats, the images shared ...
Instagram and Facebook Delete Experimental AI Accounts After Backlash
Meta quickly pulled the plug on AI bot accounts it had tested on Facebook and Instagram after users attacked the idea ...