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Meta Opens Floodgates For AI-Generated Accounts On Facebook, Instagram
AI-generated user accounts are the new normal for Instagram and Facebook parent, Meta. Here's how AI influencers and artificial accounts are evolving.
Meta takes down AI-powered profiles on Facebook, Instagram after backlash
Meta is removing Facebook and Instagram profiles of AI-generated characters that it launched in 2023, after some users discovered them and shared viral conversation, promoting backlash.
Meta retracts AI-powered profiles on Instagram and Facebook
Meta Platforms is deleting AI-powered profiles introduced on Facebook and Instagram in 2023, reports say. This decision follows a social media backlash triggered by a Meta executive's interview that brought renewed attention to these AI profiles.
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, which led to a social media backlash against the feature.
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.
Facebook and Instagram get rid of fact checkers
"Too much harmless content gets censored" he wrote, adding Meta was "too often getting in the way of the free expression we set out to enable." The move to a community notes system will be phased in over the coming months in the US.
Meta Ends Fact-Checking on Facebook, Instagram in Free-Speech Pitch
CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who has been building ties with the incoming Trump administration, said the move was an attempt to restore free expression on its platforms.
Facebook, Instagram dump fact-checkers citing election as 'cultural tipping point'
Facebook plans to replace its fact-checkers with "community notes," a move that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said would allow the social network to return "to our roots around free expression." "We're replacing fact-checkers with Community Notes,
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.
'This Is Weird': Meta Is Killing Off Its AI-Generated Fake Facebook Friends That Nobody Wanted in the First Place
Meta is deleting many of its AI-generated accounts after users began complaining about fake friends popping into their feeds.
Meta’s AI-generated bot profiles are not being received well
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Meta Responds To Backlash, Denies Deleting AI-Powered Chatbots On Instagram, Facebook
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Meta adopts Community Notes model, using AI to review
Meta is making a massive change to how it moderates content across its platforms. The company is scrapping its third-party ...