Meta Platforms scrambled to remove its own AI-generated accounts from the Facebook platform following an outcry from users.

Danielle Moné Truitt started the new year with a request.

The September 2023 launch of Meta's social profiles for AI characters was announced alongside a much splashier initiative that created animated AI chatbots with celebrity avatars at the same time.

Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, has been facing backlash over its celebrity-mimicking AI chatbots. The ...

Since late 2023, around a dozen AI Instagram and Facebook accounts created by their social media parent company Meta quietly ...

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Earlier this week, Connor Hayes, a Meta exec, told Financial Times that the platform was planning on rolling out “hundreds and thousands” of AI-generated characters that would “exist on our platforms, ...

Meta deleted several of its own AI-generated accounts after human users began engaging with them and posting about the bots’ sloppy imagery and tendency to lie in chats with humans.

Meta is tipped to make new additions to its social media platforms with artificial intelligence (AI) bots that will act as regular accounts. These AI bots will mimic regular user accounts, with the ...

Quickly, people began criticizing them. Some compared the AI-powered personas to the Netflix sci-fi series Black Mirror, while others used it as proof of the “dead internet theory,” a conspiracy ...