Meta Is Adding a Ton of AI-powered Features to Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp

While the headlining announcement of Meta Connect 2023 might be the Meta Quest 3, AI made its own significant splash. Like all other tech companies right now, Meta is pouring resources into artificial intelligence, and previewed a slew of new AI features coming to its apps and services over the next few months months.Meta’s AI stickersStickers are getting smart. Today Meta announced AI stickers, powered by the company’s large language model Llama 2, as well as its new image generation model Emu. These stickers work like other AI art generators: You submit a text prompt, and the software spits out multiple stickers based on your request. The stickers will be available in WhatsApp, Messenger, Instagram, and Facebook Stories, and the feature will be rolling out to select-English language users over the next month.Gif: MetaAI image editingMeta also announced two new AI Instagram editing features: Restyle and Backdrop. With Restyle, you can ask the AI to add an effect to your image. For example, you can ask it make an image look like it was painted with watercolor, or get specific with a request like “collage from magazines and newspapers, torn edges,” as Meta suggests.Gif: MetaBackdrop, on the other hand, swaps
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