Meta has officially launched Meta Al, along with Al chatbots, played by celebrities like Snoop Dogg, Tom Brady, Kendall Jenner, and more.

Meta Al is a digital assistant designed for seamless interaction, much like conversing with a human. The software taps into up-to-date data through a collaboration with Bing, and has a feature for generating images.

Agree with this vice article, it’s quite weird…

Meta’s Celebrity AI Chatbot Is As Weird As It Looks

Meta has officially launched Meta Al, along with Al chatbots, played by celebrities like Snoop Dogg, Tom Brady, Kendall Jenner, and more.  Meta Al is a digital assistant designed for seamless interaction, much like conversing with a human. The software taps into up-to-date data through a collaboration with Bing, and has a feature for generating images.  Agree with this vice article, it’s quite weird… Meta’s Celebrity AI Chatbot Is As Weird As It Looks Though it uses celebrity images and mimics their personalities, it’s clearly not ’them’—which seems to be the eerie point. https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3wqyg/i-used-metas-celebrity-ai-chatbot

David

I’m very curious how much compensation the celebs get from their AI chat bots 🤔

Derek

Oh yes I nearly forgot about that! It’s interesting to see some actors/celebrities are starting to lean towards AI and the use of their image. Is this the beginning of “if we can’t beat them, join them”?

Ironic this is happening around the same time as the Screen Actors Guild strike which still rages on AI concerns.  This might be nice supplemental income for some of them, but most probably didn't quite realize what they were signing away, including rights to their facial expressions “in perpetuity” for “technologies and use cases that may not yet exist.” If TV and film producers demand terms like those, who knows how long the SAG strike could last.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/10/19/1081974/meta-realeyes-artificial-intelligence-hollywood-actors-strike/?utm_campaign=article_email&utm_content=article-11544&utm_medium=email&utm_source=sg

Ironic this is happening around the same time as the Screen Actors Guild strike which still rages on AI concerns.  This might be nice supplemental income for some of them, but most probably didn't quite realize what they were signing away, including rights to their facial expressions “in perpetuity” for “technologies and use cases that may not yet exist.” If TV and film producers demand terms like those, who knows how long the SAG strike could last.  https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/10/19/1081974/meta-realeyes-artificial-intelligence-hollywood-actors-strike/?utm_campaign=article_email&utm_content=article-11544&utm_medium=email&utm_source=sg

Hollywood actors are on strike over concerns about the use of AI, but for as little as $300, Meta and a company called Realeyes hired them to make avatars appear more human.

David

A group of likeminded people in Artificial Intelligence are talking about this.