Since late 2023, around a dozen artificial intelligence Instagram and Facebook accounts created by their parent company, Meta, quietly existed on the platforms. Originally launched alongside a suite of official celebrity AI characters, the AI-driven personalities posted some AI-generated images and were available for chatting over direct messages. 



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Meta pulls plug on AI bots after backlash over glitches, misinformation

Meta is taking down profiles of several AI characters from Facebook and Instagram, created over a year ago after some of them were rediscovered by users and led to a viral controversy. 
These AI-generated profiles were first introduced by Meta in September 2023, but most of them were removed last year. 
Recently, Meta executive Connor Hayes said that the company was looking forward to introducing more AI characters. Among the AI products it plan…

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Meta Takes Down Its Own AI-Powered Profiles On Instagram, Facebook. Here's Why

Meta AI powered conversations turned controversial when users asked questions on the origins and development of the character's AI model.

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Meta denies deleting AI-powered character chatbots on Instagram and Facebook

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.

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Meta scrambles to delete its own AI accounts after backlash intensifies

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

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Meta shuts down AI character accounts on Facebook, Instagram after outcry

Meta is eliminating its own AI profiles, but the chatbots will remain - There were several problems in the testing phase, so the first-generation algorithms will disappear, but new ones will come.

A Meta megszünteti saját MI-profiljait, de a chatbotok maradnak - A tesztfázisban több probléma is akadt, így az első generációs algoritmusok eltűnnek, de jönnek újak.

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Meta is eliminating its own AI profiles, but the chatbots remain

A veritable 'tidal wave' of profiles created using artificial intelligence will soon hit several of the world's largest social media platforms, says a senior Meta executive

En sand 'flodbølge' af profiler skabt ved hjælp af kunstig intelligens rammer snart flere af verdens største sociale medier, fortæller en højtstående Meta-chef

Metas vilde plan: Snart er de allevegne

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Meta's wild plan: Soon they'll be everywhere

Meta quickly pulled the plug on AI bot accounts it had tested on Facebook and Instagram after users attacked the idea

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Instagram and Facebook Delete Experimental AI Accounts After Backlash

He decided to do this after some users started talking to the chatbots, which also said some cheesy things.

Azután döntött így, hogy néhány felhasználó beszélgetni kezdett a chatbotokkal, amik mondtak cifra dolgokat is.

A Meta megszünteti saját mesterséges intelligenciával működő Instagram- és Facebook-profiljait

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Meta is shutting down its own AI-powered Instagram and Facebook profiles

On the heels of Meta’s short-lived foray into celebrity lookalike AI chatbots, users around the internet have been unearthing AI-generated profiles created by Meta that are non-celebrity bots—and the reaction to them, to put it mildly, has been negative.The Washington Post columnist Karen Attiah engaged in a back and forth with "Liv" an AI-generated Black "queer momma" who told the writer that her "creators admitted they lacked diverse reference…

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'Genuinely weird': Critics denounce Meta's new fake AI-generated profiles

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After backlash, Meta says newly viral AI profiles on Facebook and Instagram were created in 2023 in “an early experiment”, and it is deleting the profiles  —  Earlier this week, Meta executive Connor Hayes told the Financial Times that the company is going to roll out AI character profiles …

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After backlash, Meta says newly viral AI profiles on Facebook and Instagram were created in 2023 in “an early experiment”, and it is deleting the profiles

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