Instagram got an unexpected visitor. Meta AI, the company’s artificial intelligence chatbot that can answer questions, write poetry and generate images through simple text prompts, has appeared in your private messages. Meta has warned that Meta AI is coming and has been adding chatbots to products like Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp in the past few months. We all know Instagram is going to be next.
“Our generative AI experiences are in various stages of development, and we are publicly testing a range of them in a limited capacity,” a Meta spokesperson told Engadget. For some at Engadget, the feature appeared directly on Instagram Messages in your inbox.
We can click on it to start a conversation with Meta AI, which can give a definition of the word, suggest a title and… generate an image of a dog on a skateboard.
Ah, the future.
— Matt Smith
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The company is asking a judge to deny Epic’s recent motion.
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The company temporarily removed links to some California news.
Search giant Google, which made more than $73 billion in profits last year, is protesting a California bill that would require Google and other platforms to pay media. The company announced it was starting a “short-term test” to block “a small percentage” of users in the state from connecting to local news sources in California. How will this end? Let’s look elsewhere.
The company pulled its news service from Spain for seven years in protest of local copyright laws. In Australia, however, the company signed deals worth about $150 million to pay publishers. It also eventually backed down from its threat to remove news from Canadian search results and paid about $74 million.
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A true work and play machine.
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