Instagram Introduces Custom AI Chatbots for User Profiles

Instagram Now Lets You Create an AI Version of Yourself

Instagram now lets users create AI versions of themselves which can talk to their followers on their behalf. In a blog post published on Monday, Meta announced it was rolling out a new feature called "AI Studio" in the U.S. which lets Instagram users create their own AI characters. Any Instagram user can create their own AI character which is "designed to make you laugh, generate memes, give travel advice and so much more." These virtual characters can be designed with customer personalities, traits, and interests. "Your AI can be just for you, or you can share it with your followers and friends, and even make it available for anyone to discover and chat with on Instagram, Messenger, WhatsApp, and web," Meta says in the blog post. However, creators on Instagram will be able to build an AI as an extension of themselves to reach more fans. Creators will be able to use these AI extensions of themselves to talk to their followers on their behalf. They'll be able to talk directly with humans in chat threads and respond to comments on their author's account. "With AI Studio, Instagram creators can set up an AI as an extension of themselves that can quickly answer common DM questions and story replies," Meta writes. "Whether it's sharing facts about themselves or linking to their favorite brands and past videos, creator AIs can help creators reach more people and fans get responses faster." As an example, Meta mentioned how photographer and videographer Angel Barclay created an AI called "Whats Lens Bro" that offers tips on finding the perfect lens for a shot. In a video announcing the launch of the AI, Barclay says he is constantly asked for advice from followers about what camera gear they should use. So the photographer created What Lens Bro "that you can ask all the technical questions about gear and so much more." In the clip, Barclay shows how What Lens Bro can generate an AI image of what a burger would look like shot on a 50mm lens or what the Milky Way would like captured on a 12mm lens. Creators can customize their AI based on things like their Instagram content, topics to avoid, and links they want it to share. Creators can decide who their AI replies to and Meta says that responses from creator AIs are clearly labeled, so that there is full transparency for fans. Meta says Instagram users in the U.S. can get started with AI Studio via either its website or on the Instagram app. To get started building an AI character, users should visit ai.meta.com/ai-studio or start a new message on Instagram and then tap "AI chats." Meta has also created an "AI Studio Handbook" which offers instructions on how to make a character with the tool.

Instagram to Let Users Create Custom Chatbots for Their Profiles

(Bloomberg) -- Instagram parent Meta Platforms Inc. will let users create their own AI-powered chatbots and add them to their profiles, an effort to court creators and further integrate the company's artificial intelligence software into its most popular consumer products. The feature, called AI Studio, lets creators with professional accounts make a custom AI chatbot that is "an extension of themselves" and can answer common questions from fans or followers. People can tell their bot what types of questions to answer, or which topics to avoid, Meta wrote in a blog post. The broader universe of Instagram users will be able to make a themed chatbot for their profile, for example a bot focused on mixed martial arts, dining or pets. Both features will roll out more broadly in the coming weeks. Meta first announced AI Studio last September. On Monday, the company started shipping the features for some users, timing that will coincide with Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg's appearance alongside Nvidia Corp. CEO Jensen Huang at the ACM SIGGRAPH conference in Denver this week. Meta has been spending aggressively on AI in recent years, and Zuckerberg has been open about his expectation that the company will develop some of the best chatbots in the world. It already offers its own AI chatbot, called Meta AI, inside Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook. Meta released its most recent large language model, the technology used to power chatbots, earlier this month. That new model can solve complex math problems and analyze entire books almost instantly, and also allows users to generate new images of themselves in various scenarios using only a text prompt.

Some Instagram Users Will Be Able to Add AI Chatbots to Their Profiles

Instagram parent Meta Platforms Inc. will let users create their own AI-powered chatbots and add them to their profiles, an effort to court creators and further integrate the company's artificial intelligence software into its most popular consumer products. The feature, called AI Studio, lets creators with professional accounts make a custom AI chatbot that is "an extension of themselves" and can answer common questions from fans or followers. People can tell their bot what types of questions to answer, or which topics to avoid, Meta wrote in a blog post. Read More: Mark Zuckerberg Just Intensified the Battle For AI's Future The broader universe of Instagram users will be able to make a themed chatbot for their profile, for example a bot focused on mixed martial arts, dining or pets. Both features will roll out more broadly in the coming weeks. Meta first announced AI Studio last September. On Monday, the company started shipping the features for some users, timing that will coincide with Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg's appearance alongside Nvidia Corp. CEO Jensen Huang at the ACM SIGGRAPH conference in Denver this week. Meta has been spending aggressively on AI in recent years, and Zuckerberg has been open about his expectation that the company will develop some of the best chatbots in the world. It already offers its own AI chatbot, called Meta AI, inside Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook. Meta released its most recent large language model, the technology used to power chatbots, earlier this month. That new model can solve complex math problems and analyze entire books almost instantly, and also allows users to generate new images of themselves in various scenarios using only a text prompt.

Instagram to Let Users Create Custom Chatbots for Their Profiles

Instagram parent Meta Platforms Inc. will let users create their own AI-powered chatbots and add them to their profiles, an effort to court creators and further integrate the company's artificial intelligence software into its most popular consumer products. The feature, called AI Studio, lets creators with professional accounts make a custom AI chatbot that is "an extension of themselves" and can answer common questions from fans or followers. People can tell their bot what types of questions to answer, or which topics to avoid, Meta wrote in a blog post.

Meta Wants To Let You Create Custom AI Characters: Here's How - News18

(Reuters) - Meta Platforms on Monday said it will roll out a new tool called AI Studio that will allow users to create, share and design personalized AI chatbots. The AI Studio will allow users to create customized AI characters and also allow Instagram creators to use the AI characters "as an extension of themselves" that can handle common DM questions and story replies, Meta said. Users can share their AI characters on the social media giant's various platforms. The new tool is built with Meta's Llama 3.1, the biggest version of its mostly free artificial intelligence models released last week, which is available in multiple languages and has performance metrics that compete with paid models from rivals like OpenAI. ChatGPT maker OpenAI is working on a project code-named "Strawberry," the details of which are tightly kept secret even within OpenAI, as the startup races to show that the types of models it offers are capable of delivering advanced reasoning capabilities, Reuters exclusively reported earlier in July.

Ever wanted to clone yourself? Meta can help with that. | Business Insider India

If you've ever wished there were two of you to get the job done, Meta might have just made that possible -- at least on social media. The company announced Monday that it is rolling out AI Studio in the US, a tool for users to create their own custom AI character. Creators can use these AI profiles as extensions of themselves to talk to followers and friends on Instagram, Messenger, WhatsApp, and the web. The chatbot, built with Meta's latest AI model, Llama 3.1, will be accessible through ai.meta.com/ai-studio or on the Instagram app. Users will be able to customize their AIs' names, personalities, and tones and give instructions on how their chatbots behave. A handbook provided by Meta shows off example directions from the type of language ("vocabulary from the 1950s") to the format of their responses ("a chef who provides recipes in bulleted lists"). "Whether it's sharing facts about themselves or linking to their favorite brands and past videos, creator AIs can help creators reach more people and fans get responses faster," Meta wrote in a blog post. Creators can also decide who their AI replies to, any topics to avoid, and links they want to share. The company said that responses from AI characters are clearly labeled to provide "full transparency for fans." Despite Meta's unsuccessful first attempt at AI characters last year, which featured AI assistants played by celebrities, AI-powered chatbots have been pouring into the market with decent interest from consumers. Character.AI, a platform that allows users to create and talk to chatbots based on famous figures, was downloaded 1.7 million times in one week in May of last year, Business Insider previously reported. Other users have even been finding love via Replika, an app that creates AI chatbots for romance and companionship. CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently said in an interview with AI news YouTuber Rowan Cheung that Meta's newest entry into the chatbot race is focused on allowing both creators and small businesses to create personal AI agents that reflect their values and objectives. "I think we're going to live in a world where there are going to be hundreds of millions of billions of different AI agents," he said. "Eventually, probably more AI agents than there are people in the world, and that people are just going to interact with them in all these different ways."