Facebook's new AI stickers can generate Elmo with a knife | Ars Technica

nose-dive into the future — Instagram, Messenger AI feature goes viral for potentially offensive user-created stickers. Benj Edwards – Oct 4, 2023 5:07 pm UTC Enlarge / A selection of AI-generated stickers created in Facebook Messenger and shared on social media site X. Less than a week after Meta unveiled AI-generated stickers in its Facebook Messenger app, users are already abusing it to create potentially offensive images of copyright-protected characters and sharing the results on social media, reports VentureBeat. In particular, an artist named Pier-Olivier Desbiens posted a series of virtual stickers that went viral on X on Tuesday, starting a thread of similarly problematic AI image generations shared by others. “Found out that facebook messenger has ai generated stickers now and I don’t think anyone involved has thought anything through,” Desbiens wrote in his post. “We really do live in the stupidest future imaginable,” he added in a reply. Available to some users on a limited basis, the new AI stickers feature allows people to create AI-generated simulated sticker images from text-based descriptions in both Facebook Messenger and Instagram Messenger. The stickers are then shared in chats, similar to emojis. Meta uses its new Emu image synthesis model to
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