Meta is eager to be a key participant within the generative AI race, which is why it is investing billions in AI {hardware} and improvement and jamming new AI options into all its apps.
That features WhatsApp, the world’s hottest messaging app, which can also be notoriously tough so as to add options to, as most WhatsApp customers are solely serious about messaging their buddies and nothing else.
However Meta goes to provide it a shot anyway, with the corporate now creating a brand new AI profile picture generator for WhatsApp profiles.
As you’ll be able to see on this screenshot, posted by WABetaInfo, the newest model of WhatsApp incorporates new code associated to an as-yet-unreleased “Create AI Profile Image” possibility to your WhatsApp presence.
Which, because it sounds, will allow you to create your individual AI photographs, which you’ll be able to already do with numerous third-party instruments and you may, at the very least in idea, with Meta’s personal AI instruments.
Including your individual photographs to the Meta AI chat stream is not straightforward, although.
As an experiment, I attempted a number of other ways to do that, first by asking it to create an alternate model of my profile image (it returned an image of a younger Asian man), then to create a picture of “Andrew Hutchinson” (it returned a frisbee chased again by a canine), then “the person” Andrew Hutchinson (which gave me this picture of a Victorian-era gentleman sitting in his examine).
It then knowledgeable me that it could not truly entry any photographs, so I might solely do it by describing it by profile image. Which, I suppose, can work with a good quantity of trial and error, like making a police sketch of your self by way of AI.
However once more, it is potential, as Meta is experimenting with AI profile picture technology, particularly on Fb and IG.
With the AI profile picture possibility accessible in all of Meta’s apps, perhaps they’re going to all launch without delay, giving billions of individuals the possibility to create hyperreal, considerably unflattering pictures of themselves.
Would that be a very good factor? Most likely not, however fascinating nonetheless. potential
The function will add to WhatsApp’s current AI elements, together with stickers you can create from textual content prompts and its Meta AI chatbot, which Meta believes will finally change into fashionable regardless of unfavorable preliminary reactions.
And whereas most of those instruments are considerably fascinating, as famous, most are at the very least a novelty at this stage, unlikely to see ongoing use.
However AI is the factor of the second, and all the massive tech gamers are satisfied that they won’t solely change into transformative instruments, but in addition, they must incorporate them to maintain up.
And whereas there are some use instances for generative AI which are vital, I am nonetheless not satisfied that social and messaging apps want them.
Appears like we will discover out each methods.
