Instagram got a surprise visitor. Meta AI, the company’s AI-powered chatbot that can answer questions, write poetry, and generate images with a simple text prompt, is available in your DMs. Meta warned that Meta AI was coming and has spent the last few months adding the chatbot to products like Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp. We all knew Instagram was next.
“Our generative AI-powered experiences are in various stages of development and we are publicly testing a number of them on a limited scale,” a Meta spokesperson told Engadget. For some of us at Engadget, the feature appeared in Instagram’s 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.
Oh, the future.
– Mat Smith
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