Meta wants AI to write your Instagram comments

[Cpvr]

AI is all over social media. We have AI influencers, AI content, and AI accounts — and, now, it looks like we might get AI comments on Instagram posts, too. What are any of us doing this for anymore?

App researcher Jonah Manzano shared a post on Threads and a video on TikTok showing how some Instagram users now notice a pencil with a star icon in their comments field, allowing them to post AI-generated comments under posts and videos.

Write with Meta AI," the tool says, with two subsections: "how to use this tool" and "how it works."

Under "how to use this tool," it says, "Get suggested captions based on the photo you're sharing. You can always edit the suggestions or try again."

And under "how it works," it claims, "Meta AI can analyse photos, including facial features, to help you write."

In the video on TikTok that Manzano shared, three comment options are: "Cute living room setup!" "love the casual vibe here," and "gray cap is so cool." Unfortunately, all three of these are clearly computer-generated slop and take an already shaky human interaction down a notch.

It's hard to know why you'd want to remove the human element from every aspect of social media, but Instagram seems to be going to try it anyway. Meta did not immediately respond to Mashable's request for comment.

Source: https://mashable.com/article/meta-test-instagram-ai-caption-comments

 

[Ravenfreak]

This reminds me of the auto responses your phone will generate when you're talking to someone via text. Still not surprising that Meta wants to use more AI on their platforms. Meta I suppose thinks we can't come up with responses ourselves, so they decided to shove more AI on their platforms.

 

[fdk]

AI is pissing me off a lot lately. At work we use Microsoft and Copilot is automatically enabled, and I can't seem to turn it off. Everytime I write an email it's trying to suggest/change my words and it tries the same obvious AI-crap things.

When responding to client queries, I write a general greeting, something like "Thanks for submitting your enquiry via our website this weekend, I hope this reply finds you well today". Every email I write, I change it up ever so slightly, just for something to do... I get that the AI is trying to suggest a generic greeting for me to help me "be more productive", but it's literally trying to perform a 5-10 second task for me... Jesus Christ, I don't need that level of hand-holding! Doesn't surprise me that some in my generation and the generation below (who are teens now!) need this though!