Meta will invest in AI-generated characters and profiles to drive up engagement

AI-generated profiles and users could soon flood Facebook, according to new comments from a Meta AI executive. Over the past year, the social media platform company has been perfecting and promoting new artificial intelligence programs and technology across sites like Facebook. In July, Meta launched new trial AI character creation tools with hundreds of thousands of characters already created. While most of these characters are private for now, Meta expects that they will be a regular part of the platform within the next few years. "We expect these AIs to...