Article in Slashdot, 12/27/24
Headline: “Meta Envisages Social Media Filled with AI-generated Users”
“Meta is betting that characters generated by AI will fill its social media platforms in the next few years as it looks to the fast-developing technology to drive engagement with its 3 billion users.”
“. . .” ‘We expect these AIs to actually, over time, exist on our platforms, kind of in the same way that accounts do,’ said Connor Hayes, vice-president of product for generative AI at Meta. ‘They’ll have bios and profile pictures and be able to generate and share content powered by AI on the platform … that’s where we see all of this going,’ ”