A surprise visitor came to Instagram. Meta AI is the company’s AI-powered chatbot built into DMs that can answer questions, write poems, and generate images with simple text prompts. Meta AI has warned of its arrival and has spent the past few months adding chatbots to products like Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp. We all knew Instagram would be next.
“Our AI-powered experiences are in various stages of development, and we are publicly testing different experiences to a limited extent,” a Meta spokesperson told Engadget. For some on Engadget, this feature appeared directly on his Instagram in his messaging inbox.
Tap this to start a conversation with Meta AI, where you can give it a definition for a word, suggest a headline, or generate an image of a dog on a skateboard.
Ah, the future.
— Matt Smith
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