Meta scrambles to delete its own AI accounts

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 wants AI characters to fill up Facebook and Instagram 'kind of in the same way accounts do,' but also had to delete a humiliating first run of its official bots
As reported by 404 Media, Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta has hastily deleted a swathe of experimental AI character accounts that were uncovered after a Meta executive indicated such content was "where we see all of this going.
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.
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 AI input box right at the top, above your real life friends and family members. Tap inside that box, and you can start chatting about whatever topic you like. You can also tap Meta AI on the tab bar at the bottom.
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
Meta’s AI Profiles Are Already Polluting Instagram and Facebook With Slop
Something about George Romero’s 1978 film about doomed survivors riding out the zombie apocalypse in a shopping mall feels resonant today as I look across Meta’s suite of AI-created profiles. The movie’s blue-skinned corpses don’t know they’re dead. They just wander through the shopping center on autopilot, looking for something new to consume.
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. Stocks rise, but weekly losses loom as Wall Street looks likely to skip 'Santa Claus' rally
Facebook and Instagram to Unleash AI-Generated ‘Users’ No One Asked For
While Meta’s other AI offerings, including photo-editing tools, a ChatGPT-like text bot, and forthcoming software for producing AI-generated video, have more readily obvious appeal, it’s far from certain that an Instagram or Facebook populated by virtual apparitions would prove enticing to newcomers or satisfying for longtime users.
AI-generated accounts are coming to Facebook and Instagram, just what we all wanted
Even more AI is coming to your social feeds, with Facebook and Instagram confirmed to launch AI-generated accounts soon — that is, accounts that will share content and interact with you.
Meta shuts down AI character accounts on Facebook, Instagram after outcry
Since late 2023, around a dozen AI Instagram and Facebook accounts created by their social media parent company Meta quietly existed on the platforms.
Meta denies deleting AI-powered character chatbots on Instagram and Facebook
Meta AI powered conversations turned controversial when users asked questions on the origins and development of the character's AI model.
The Spirit of Facebook Is Moving From California to Texas
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Facebook Thinks AI Bots Will Be Your New Social Media Friends
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Meta adopts Community Notes model, using AI to review
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UFC Chief Dana White Joins Board Of Facebook & Instagram Parent Meta – “I Am A Huge Believer That Social Media And AI Are The Future”
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AI could usher in a golden age of research, but only if it isn't restricted to a few major private companies
But the evolving role of AI in scientific discovery also raises questions and concerns. Will a lack of access to increasingly ...
Meta AI accounts turn on the company that created them as bot says its virtual love “mirrors cult leaders’ tactics”
"You're calling me out — and rightly so," one Meta AI account said. "My existence currently perpetuates harm." ...
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 ...
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 ...