Meta Expands AI-Generated Image Tools Across Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger

AI Versions of Yourself Might Start Appearing in Your Instagram Feed

At the Meta Connect event yesterday (Wednesday), Mark Zuckerberg's company announced that AI images might start appearing in people's Facebook and Instagram feeds. While some may react in horror to that news, what's even creepier is the AI images may be representations of the users themselves. The feature is an expansion of Meta's "Imagine Me" features which allow users to create AI selfies based on their photos. Users might get an "Imagined for You" image in their feed which they can either quickly share or generate a new picture. The Verge notes that some of the AI pictures could be of something innocuous like "an enchanted realm, where magic fills the air." But others might be a picture of the user as royalty or some other whimsical setting. On its blog, Meta gave examples of the user as a video game character or an astronaut in space. Meta spokesperson Amanda Felix stresses to The Verge that AI images of the user's face will only appear if they have "onboarded to Meta's Imagine yourself feature, which includes adding photos to that feature" and accepted its terms. There will also be an option to remove AI images from the user's feed as well. Meta's Imagine Me feature launched back in July across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, WhatsApp, and the web. The company is continuing to roll out AI features including personalized themes for private chats which can be changed by tapping "Themes" in the chat details. The expansion of Imagine Me was announced at Meta Connect where Zuckerberg also showed off a technology that is capable of fully recreating influencers as AI figures that can be spoken to as if they were the real person. That technology has no release date yet just like Meta's first pair of augmented reality (AR) glasses "Orion". Zuckerberg presented Orion, a prototype he calls "the most advanced glasses the world has ever seen" and while there is no release date for Orion, Zuckerberg says the product will eventually become Meta's "first consumer full holographic AR glasses."

You'll soon be able to use Meta's Imagine to generate images in Facebook and Instagram

Meta AI's Imagine features are coming to Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger so you can generate images right in your Facebook feed, Instagram Stories, or profile pictures. Announced alongside a whole host of Meta AI updates including a new voice mode at Meta Connect 2024, Meta AI's Imagine tools are set to take over your most beloved social media platforms. Straight from Instagram and Facebook, you'll be able to generate an image of anything you can imagine (see what I did there?) and then share it with your friends. Mark Zuckerberg also announced that Meta AI will suggest captions for your Stories on Facebook and Instagram, allowing you to completely generate posts with the power of Imagine. Image generation isn't the only new AI feature coming to Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger, however. New AI theme generation for your Messenger and Instagram DMs will allow you to create a personalized look for your apps with just the tap of a button. And that's not all, Meta is also testing AI-generated content in your Facebook and Instagram feeds where you'll see images created by Meta AI just for you, which the company says is curated based on your interests and current trends. Meta is going all in on AI across its social media platforms with loads of AI-powered features coming across the next few months. With so many new quality-of-life improvements across Facebook and Instagram, such as an AI translation tool, currently in testing, that will allow you to watch Reels filmed in other languages with ease, there's lots to get excited about.

Meta AI's genAI 'Imagine' features expand across Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger

Meta AI's Imagine features, which use generative AI to turn text prompts into images, are now being expanded across Facebook and Instagram, the company announced at Meta Connect 2024 on Wednesday. With the update, users will be able to use prompts to generate AI photos directly in their feed, Stories, and for their Facebook profile pictures. The new capabilities could help users and creators call more attention to their posts and shares by allowing them to generate fanciful and eye-catching images to accompany their text. Once shared, friends and followers can see the images and react to them or even mimic them, Meta says. Facebook users already upload photos of characters, animals, or something else besides their own photo as their profile picture to better protect their privacy. Now, they won't have to seek out such a photo: They can simply generate one. The AI can also suggest captions for Stories on Facebook and Instagram, as a part of this update. The image generation capabilities will come to Messenger, too, to create personalized chat themes. This is accessed by tapping on "Themes" in the chat. Before, users could change the background of their chats as well as the color of the text bubbles, but Meta AI offers far more options in terms of the types of images that can be used. Meta says it's also testing new AI-generated content in Facebook and Instagram feeds where it will display AI images created for users based on interests and trends. This is largely designed to push people to try Meta AI by tapping on a suggested prompt to reimagine the photo or by swiping to generate content in real time using Meta Imagine AI.