Instagram has allowed users to use AI chatbot to respond to messages for them.

Question

Meta, the company that owns Instagram, is starting to roll out an AI tool that lets creative and professional users develop their own chatbots to respond to direct messages. These chatbots can answer common queries from followers in the creator's voice and style thanks to "AI Studio." This feature is aimed to help businesses and public figures handle a lot of messages while still keeping their audiences interested.

Recent news and Meta say that creators can monitor and join discussions at any moment. The chatbot pauses when the person responds and starts again later if necessary. Not everyone can use this function now, but it's a huge step toward making interactions on social media more automatic. The claim is mostly true: Instagram has let some people utilize AI chatbots to reply to DMs for them.

Answer 1

I found that Instagram has come out with a chat box called "AI Studio", which is supposed to be in place of a search engine like Google, to look things up. Primary sources that I found were articles explaining the good and the bad of this new feature. Potential biases that my sources may have include the articles being written by someone who favors Mark Zuckerberg, Meta, or Instagram. Those who have a positive outlook on these topics may lean more towards using AI as well because they want to support in any way possible. The evidence that supports the claim that I am fact-checking is the article provided above, because it goes on to explain all of the features that you can utilize with AI, like solving complex math problems and generating pictures of yourself in different scenarios. The evidence that undermines this fact-check is the article "Meta's AI Assistant Is Fun to Use, but Can't Be Trusted", because it talks about the misuse of AI and the mistakes that come along with using this new feature. It explains how using it for a search engine can lead to incorrect information being generated, and especially emphasizes on how bad Meta's assistant is at counting numbers. When trying to contact the person who published this fact-check, I did not get a response. 

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/24/technology/personaltech/meta-ai-facebook-instagram-chatbot.html