Goal announced today that it will offer people a tool called AI Studio to create virtual characters with customized personalities, traits and interests, including ones based on their own personality. If you’re a creator, you’ll also be able to have your digital doppelgänger interact with fans in direct messages.
“Every creator can create an AI version of themselves or an assistant that their community can interact with,” Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said during a talk at the home of the SIGGRAPH conference with Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, the chipmaker at the heart of today’s artificial intelligence boom. thanks to its very important GPU chips.
Meta says AI Studio will begin rolling out to Instagram Business account users today and will be available to all Meta users in the US in the coming weeks. The tool can be accessed at ai.meta.com/ai-studio and through the Instagram application, but the chatbots can also be accessed through WhatsApp, Messenger and the web.
Zuckerberg said he expects users to create custom AI chatbots for entertainment or as personal support tools, such as interpreting how to ask for a raise or navigating a discussion with a friend. “You can basically interpret it and see how the conversation is going to go and get feedback on that,” he said.
The company says AI Studio will allow users to limit who their chatbots interact with and prevent them from discussing certain topics. AI Studio’s usage policy prohibits users from impersonating real people other than themselves. It would also put historical figures, religious figures, mass murderers or “objects that could be considered hateful, explicit or illegal” off limits.
In a blog post, Meta promoted several chatbots created by celebrities, including “Eat Like You Live There!” a chatbot for dining recommendations made by chef Marc Murphy and “What Lens Bro”, a photography bot made by photographer Angel Barclay. He said several Instagram personalities — Chris Ashley, Violet Benson, Don Allen and Kane Kallaway — had made chatbot versions of themselves.
