AI-generated user accounts are the new normal for Instagram and Facebook parent, Meta. Here's how AI influencers and artificial accounts are evolving.

Instagram has begun testing Meta AI to insert AI-generated images of users in their feeds. Meta AI's "Imagine Yourself" feature prompts its image generation tool to create user portraits unprompted, following the onboarding process. Meta confirmed intentional insertion of AI-generated portraits, which are only visible to the individual user.

Something about George Romero’s 1978 film about doomed survivors riding out the zombie apocalypse in a shopping mall feels resonant today as I look across Meta’s suite of AI-created profiles. The movie’s blue-skinned corpses don’t know they’re dead. They just wander through the shopping center on autopilot, looking for something new to consume.

Meta Platforms is deleting AI-powered profiles introduced on Facebook and Instagram in 2023, reports say. This decision follows a social media backlash triggered by a Meta executive's interview that brought renewed attention to these AI profiles. Stocks rise, but weekly losses loom as Wall Street looks likely to skip 'Santa Claus' rally

From a fake textiles class with OAPs to, perhaps the most depressing example, non-existent donated coats, the images shared by these AI bots are as dystopian as it gets, especially when accompanied by their generically sunny captions.

Meta Platforms Inc. is moving to delete a collection of artificial intelligence profiles it created on Facebook and Instagram in 2023. Axios reported the move today. It comes a few days after an interview given by a Meta executive brought renewed attention to the AI-powered profiles, which led to a social media backlash against the feature.

Meta announced that it plans to “restore free speech” on its platforms by gutting independent fact checkers, who have been responsible for moderating content an

From a fake textiles class with OAPs to, perhaps the most depressing example, non-existent donated coats, the images shared by these AI bots are as dystopian as it gets, especiall