Meta AI’s latest feature can let you live in a fantasy world – if you give it your face
Meta gives the Meta AI assistant access to your geographic, linguistic, and artistic capabilities, allowing the assistant to communicate in seven new languages and seven additional countries. The assistant can also create fantasy images of you based on commands.
Users in 22 countries can now interact with Meta AI on WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger and Facebook, and the chatbot can now understand and respond in French, German, Hindi, Hindi-Romanized Script, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish. Meta AI will also debut to those wearing Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses and Meta Quest headsets.
The expansion also includes a new AI image creation tool called “Imagine Me,” which generates a digital avatar of the user based on uploaded photos. The virtual version of the user can then be embedded in any setting you choose via a text prompt. If you don’t like what the AI comes up with, you can submit a follow-up prompt that changes any aspect of the AI-generated art that doesn’t match your vision.
“Simply type ‘Imagine I am’ into your Meta AI chat to get started, then add a prompt like ‘Imagine I am royalty’ or ‘Imagine I am in a surreal painting.’ From there, you can share the images with friends and family, giving you the perfect response or a fun sidebar to spice up your group chat,” Meta explained in the update announcement. “You can easily add or remove objects, change them, and edit them — and customize them exactly what you want, while keeping the rest of the image the same. You might say, “Imagine a cat snorkeling in a goldfish bowl” and then decide you want it to be a corgi. You could then simply write, “Change the cat into a corgi” to customize the image.”
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Meta tested the Imagine Me feature on WhatsApp, but it’s now rolling out across the tech giant’s platforms. Additionally, any AI art produced using Meta’s tools will soon be shareable via Facebook posts and stories, as well as messages on Instagram, Messenger, and WhatsApp. One upgrade that isn’t universally available yet is access to Meta’s most advanced AI model, Llama 405B, which allows the assistant to better tackle complex queries, particularly around math and coding—but only on WhatsApp and meta.ai for now.
Still, it’s Imagine Me and its accompanying AI image editing tools that stand out the most from the upgrade. It’s not something Meta’s rivals are offering right now, and instead opens up a channel to entice fans of OpenAI and Google to switch to Meta. To be fair, ChatGPT and Google Gemini will rarely create AI images of real people, and certainly won’t save a model for reuse. They’ll mostly suggest a generic look for an AI-generated image of a human, if they even allow it.