You’ll find Meta AI front and center in Meta’s apps: In the Facebook Messenger app, for example, tap Chats and you’ll see a Meta AI input box right at the top, above your real life friends and family members. Tap inside that box, and you can start chatting about whatever topic you like. You can also tap Meta AI on the tab bar at the bottom.

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

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 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.

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 is removing Facebook and Instagram profiles of AI-generated characters that it launched in 2023, after some users discovered them and shared viral conversation, promoting backlash.

Responding to an online backlash, Meta has deleted AI-driven user profiles, raising questions about authenticity and transparency in social media.

Meta has shut down its AI character accounts after backlash, NBC News and others have reported. "They'll have bios and profile pictures and be able to generate and share content powered by AI on the platform

Facebook parent company Meta Platforms scrambled to remove its own AI-generated accounts from the Facebook platform following an outcry from users. Human users started communicating with the AI bots that posted sloppy imagery and conversations laden with lies in their chats with humans.

Meta AI powered conversations turned controversial when users asked questions on the origins and development of the character's AI model.