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    Meta now has an AI chatbot. Experts say get ready for more AI-powered social media

    When you use Facebook Messenger these days, a new prompt greets you with this come-on: "Ask Meta AI anything." You may have opened the app to send a text to a pal, but Meta's new artificial-intelligence-powered chatbot is tempting you with encyclopedic knowledge that's just a few keystrokes away. Meta, the parent company of Facebook, has planted its home-grown chatbot on its Whatsapp and ...
    by Jireh Deng, Los Angeles Times May 05, 2024 4 minutes
    A man takes a photo at Meta corporate headquarters in Menlo Park, California on November 9, 2022.

    When you use Facebook Messenger these days, a new prompt greets you with this come-on: "Ask Meta AI anything."

    You may have opened the app to send a text to a pal, but Meta's new artificial-intelligence-powered chatbot is tempting you with encyclopedic knowledge that's just a few keystrokes away.

    Meta, the parent company of Facebook, has planted its home-grown chatbot on its Whatsapp and Instagram services. Now, billions of internet users can open one of these free social media platforms and draw on Meta AI's services as a dictionary, guidebook, counselor or illustrator, among many other tasks it can perform — although not always reliably or infalliably.

    "Our goal is

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