Meta has launched a new AI campaign featuring CEO Mark Zuckerberg, positioning artificial intelligence as a tool for creativity, connection, and human potential ahead of earnings.
Metaβs experimental StoryKit app generates personalized stories, illustrations, narration, and music using a child, toy, setting, or lesson selected by a parent
Every app wants to become an AI app, even when users keep dismissing the invitation. Somehow, software that promises to understand us still canβt remember when weβve said no.
The updates come as Meta and other tech companies are facing scrutiny from regulators and parents around how AI chatbots respond to users in crisis, particularly teenagers.
The European Union is ramping up pressure on Meta to make big changes to Facebook and Instagram after the European Commission preliminarily found that features like autoplay, infinite scroll, and highly personalized content recommendations were addictive.
On Thursday, the EC said its investigation indicated that βMeta did not adequately assess the risks of its addictive design on the physical and mental wellbeing of users, including minors and vulnerable adults.β
βThese features fuel the user's urge to keep scrolling and shift the brain into βautopilot mode,' contributing to unhealthy habits and compulsive use,β the commission said.