• Meta Free AI Models and Integrating AI Ask Meta Query Into Facebook and Instagram

    Meta has put Meta AI front and center in the search bars for Facebook and Instagram that have served as key tools to find content from particular friends or creators. This is what the All-in-Podcast guys called scorched Earth for AI. This means almost no one will pay the $20 per month or other subscriptions

  • Meta is adding real-time AI image generation to WhatsApp

    Meta is rolling out real-time AI image generation in beta for WhatsApp users in the US. As soon as you start typing a text-to-image prompt in a chat with Meta AI, you’ll see how the image changes as you add more detail about what you want to create. In the example shared by Meta, a user types in the prompt, “Imagine a soccer game on mars.” The generated image quickly changes from a typical soccer player to showing an entire soccer field on a Martian landscape. If you have access to the beta,...

  • Can AI image generators be policed to prevent explicit deepfakes of children?

    As one of the largest ‘training’ datasets has been found to contain child sexual abuse material, can bans on creating such imagery be feasible?Child abusers are creating AI-generated “deepfakes” of their targets in order to blackmail them into filming their own abuse, beginning a cycle of sextortion that can last for years.Creating simulated child abuse imagery is illegal in the UK, and Labour and the Conservatives have aligned on the desire to ban all explicit AI-generated images of real...

  • Meta Integrates AI Image Generation with WhatsApp, Beta Launches in US

    US WhatsApp users can now use the Meta AI image-generating feature, which allows real-time text-to-image suggestions and image transformations.

  • Meta adds its AI chatbot, powered by Llama 3, to the search bar across its apps

    Meta’s making several big moves today to promote its AI services across its platform. The company has upgraded its AI chatbot with its newest large language model, Llama 3, and it is now running it in the search bar of its four major apps (Facebook, Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp) across multiple countries. Alongside this, the […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

  • Is ChatGPT sexist? AI chatbot was asked to generate 100 images of CEOs but only ONE was a woman (and 99% of the secretaries were female)

    Study asking chatbot for images of CEOs showed a man in 99 out of 100 tests. When asked to paint a secretary, it showed a woman almost every time

  • Apple pulls AI image apps from the App Store after learning they could generate nude images

    Apple is cracking down on a category of AI image generation apps that “advertised the ability to create nonconsensual nude images.” According to a new report from 404 Media, Apple has removed multiple AI apps from the App Store that claimed they could “create nonconsensual nude images.” more

  • Snapchat to Watermark AI-Generated Images

    In the latest move to respond to the influx of visuals created using artificial intelligence, social media app Snapchat announced it would add a watermark to such images. [Read More]

  • Meta AI now has a dedicated website for chats: meta.ai, expands to 12 other countries

    Meta Platforms (formerly Facebook) announced today the expansion of its AI assistant, Meta AI, to over a dozen new countries outside the US. This update makes Meta AI available in English in countries like Australia, Canada, South Africa, and Singapore. Here is the full list of the countries where Meta AI is being released:  Meta AI has been improved with […]

  • Meta is out-executing its peers on generative AI: Analyst

    Meta Platforms (META) posted first-quarter earnings results above analyst estimates, posting adjusted earnings of $4.71 per share and $36.46 billion in revenue. Meta shares plummeted by over 10% after releasing earnings after Wednesday's market close, many experts attributing this reaction to the social media giant's second-quarter outlook. Roth MKM Managing Director and Senior Research Analyst Rohit Kulkarni comes on Market Domination Overtime to talk about what could become Meta's next big...

  • Meta AI adds Google Search results

    Meta AI will point users to web search results of Google or Microsoft Bing for queries that require the most up-to-date answers.

  • Snap is adding a watermark to AI-generated images

    It's becoming increasingly difficult to determine what is AI-created as tools' capabilities continue to improve. Marking AI-created images is one solution and an option Snapchat is expanding on. The platform is introducing a watermark on AI-generated content that is saved to your camera roll or exported. Snapchat In a surprise to absolutely no one, Snapchat's AI watermark will be a ghost with sparkles next to it. There doesn't seem to be any way to control where the icon appears (as is typical...