During the company’s Connect event, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that Meta AI can now process image inputs, allowing it to answer questions about photos and edit them. Want to know what kind of flower you took a picture of or how to make a multi-colored cake? Just ask Meta AI. See a picture of a goat on your Instagram feed and want to repost it as a picture of a goat on a surfboard? Just ask Meta AI. Not sure what to say about the goat on a surfboard? Don’t worry, Meta AI will also suggest captions for your stories on Facebook and Instagram.

And if chatting with Meta AI yourself sounds like too much work, the company will be testing a new feature on Facebook and Instagram that injects unsolicited AI-generated images “based on your interests or current trends” directly into your feeds, allowing you to “tap a suggested prompt to take that content in a new direction or swipe to imagine new content in real-time,” according to pre-event briefing materials.

Not to be outdone by OpenAI’s release of a voice assistant for ChatGPT earlier this week, Zuckerberg announced that users can begin talking to Meta AI and it will talk back in the voices of celebrities like Awkwafina, Dame Judi Dench, John Cena, Keegan Michael Key, and Kristen Bell.

The company is also beginning “small tests” in the U.S. and Latin America of a deepfake feature that will translate video content on Instagram and Facebook from Spanish to English, or vice versa. The Meta AI translation tool will automatically “simulate the speaker’s voice in another language and sync their lips to match,” according to the company’s briefing material.

Meta did not immediately respond to questions about whether creators on Facebook and Instagram will be asked for their consent before their images and voices are manipulated.

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Halfway through, I was certain this was The Onion.

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I wish.

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Welcome to Sacred Timeline Ennui

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Dead internet theory product

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Don’t worry, they’ve already got a number of them made up just like you each and every one of us. 😶

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This is meta AI, you can ask it anything.

Ask it to fuck off.

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At this point I think I’m ready to remove the rest of my content that remains on Facebook and Instagram.

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What if they resurrect you for your followers or whatever based on your prior activity, so nobody even notices you are gone? It’s all ai now anyway.

Bleak af, but entirely possible now. There’s that platform that should be called echochamberAI but instead is called socialAI, and mimics a whole social network for… whatever reason.

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Very bleak. Would probably be best to keep the account active, but empty.

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Yeah, that totally worked for the reddit0rs that got out early on… /s 🤷🏽‍♂️

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The phenomenon of online platforms gradually degrading the quality of their services, often by promoting advertisements and sponsored content, in order to increase profits. (Cory Doctorow, 2022, extracted from Wikitionary) source

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We discuss how predatory big tech platforms live and die by luring people in and then decaying for profit.

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We also discuss how naturally open technologies like the Fediverse can be susceptible to corporate takeovers, rugpulls and subsequent enshittification.

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