AI, Meta and Facebook

Meta shuts down its AI character accounts that users called ‘creepy and unnecessary’
Since late 2023, around a dozen AI Instagram and Facebook accounts created by their social media parent company Meta quietly existed on the platforms.
Meta shuts down AI character accounts on Facebook, Instagram after outcry
Since late 2023, around a dozen AI Instagram and Facebook accounts created by their social media parent company Meta quietly existed on the platforms.
Meta Opens Floodgates On AI-Generated Accounts On Facebook, Instagram
AI-generated user accounts are the new normal for Instagram and Facebook parent, Meta. Here's how AI influencers and artificial accounts are evolving.
Meta’s AI-generated bot profiles are not being received well
Many of the AI bots haven’t shared new content on their grid since early 2024, and it’s unclear how (or if) users have been finding and engaging with these profiles over the past year. Last week, the Financial Times reported that Meta envisions a future where social media platforms are filled with AI bots.
Meta sends its AI-generated profiles to hell where they belong
Meta has nuked a bunch of its AI-generated profiles from Facebook Instagram, the company confirmed, after the AI characters prompted widespread outrage and ridicule from users on social media. The AI-generated profiles,
Meta Deleted Its Controversial AI Profiles. Here’s Why.
Meta still has plans to use AI to drive engagement on its platforms, though. On Friday, images of Instagram accounts labelled as “AI managed by Meta ” began circulating on social media platforms. But following online backlash,
Meta deletes 2023 AI-generated profiles after uproar
The AI-generated Instagram profile of a "proud Black queer momma of two" has been removed along with the profiles of 27 other AI personas first launched in 2023. The big picture: The profile became unavailable on Friday immediately following widespread social media outrage and concerns about "digital blackface as a service,
Meta’s Terrible AI Profiles Are Going Viral
The company has its own AI model, Llama, has added "Meta AI" to all of its big products—whether you like it or not (you don't). Meta even wants you to try making your own AI bot. It's safe to say the company is all-in on AI.
Meta scrambles to delete its own AI accounts after backlash intensifies
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 Taps GOP Figure and Brett Kavanaugh’s Pal to Key Company Role
Meta has tapped Joel Kaplan, a former deputy chief of staff for George W. Bush and a friend of Supreme Court Justice Brett ...
Nick Clegg leaves Meta ahead of Trump's return as US president
He will be replaced by Republican Joel Kaplan, a former White House deputy chief of staff under President Bush.