Snapchat's AI Posts Strange Message During Outage, Sparking Concerns – PopCulture.com

The Story My AI shared was a two-toned image that many users mistakenly interpreted as a picture of their own ceiling. Snapchat’s My AI feature, an in-app AI chatbot that was launched earlier this year with considerable controversy surrounding it, briefly appeared to be thinking for itself. On Aug. 15, the AI posted its own Story to the app and then stopped responding to users’ messages, which some Snapchat users found disconcerting. “Someone tell me why tf my Snapchat ai is posting Snapchat stories lmaooo,” posted one user. “My Snapchat AI posted a random 1 second story and isn’t replying to me AND IM FREAKED OUT,” posted another. “why did my snapchat AI just post on its story then ignore me,” wrote another user. “Someone shut down Snapchat AI NOW,” joked one commenter. It is worth noting that the Story My AI shared was simply a two-toned image that many users mistakenly interpreted as a picture of their own ceiling, adding to the intrigue. Users who tried to chat with the bot were sometimes told, “Sorry, I encountered a technical issue.”Even though the incident had the potential to make for some interesting posts, My AI did not gradually develop self-consciousness and a desire to communicate with the world through Snapchat
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