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Meta Rolls Out AI Assistant Across Europe

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Meta has announced the rollout of its AI chatbot across Europe starting this week. The AI assistant will appear across WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger platforms in 41 European and 21 overseas territories.

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Meta AI launched in the United States in 2023, but the company paused a planned rollout in Europe due to regulatory concerns. Meta's AI suite of features offer users several capabilities, but Europe is only getting the text-based assistant in six languages for now. The company said it plans to "find parity with the US" and expand its AI offering over time.
No more hopping from tab to tab to find the information or content you need! Meta AI will now make it easier to discover content that is relevant to you and your interests. With an advanced understanding of what you're looking for, you can now use Meta AI to generate results across a range of content – from reels or posts from your friends and followers. Planning a holiday to Canada and need some inspiration? Simply type "show me Vancouver Island content" and kickstart your wanderlust.

Our Meta AI chat feature will also include access to information from the web, making it an easy and efficient way to get the information you need all in one place – with added context and conversation.
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The AI chatbot can also be invoked by using "@MetaAI" in group chats, starting with WhatsApp. Meta says the feature will also roll out across Messenger and Instagram Direct Messaging soon.

Late last year, Meta added some of the features to its Ray-Ban smart glasses, including live translation and live AI. Soon, the company also plans to release a standalone AI app to compete with products like OpenAI's ChatGPT, Google's Gemini, and Microsoft's Copilot.

While Meta AI will be free as it is now, Meta is expected to test a paid subscription service that could have more advanced capabilities.

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Meanwhile Siri can’t answer basic questions. People don’t get it, this is the doom of Apple finally and they haven’t even realize it. Personal assistants will be the new it and Apple can’t do one, doesn’t matter how many years you give them. They say all the AI features will be coming next year, think again, they won’t be coming ever. If they come they will be just as bad as Siri is and nobody will care.
 
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How about they get some AI to look better at reported content?

the whole "doesnt breach community standards" line is so tired and wrong.

i've stuff blocked that i reposted from sources that still show it.
ive had content ive reported about killing people having abortions allowed to stay online.

the other day a post was removed "because it was similar to other Faked posts".
it was about Trump and was true.

theres a lot of backroom editorial appeasement going on...
 
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I got really annoyed when it popped up in Messenger and WhatsApp. You can’t make it go away, so after telling it to go away and turn itself off, I have just had to ignore it. Such a pointless waste of space.
 
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this sounds like a way to control the narrative and suppress certain information, they are becoming Twitter.
 
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How is it Meta's blatant attempt to keep you in it's greedy clutches doesn't raise an eyebrow in the EU while Apple is constantly being accused of gaming the system for its own naferiouse purposes.
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Going to guess it's because Meta doesn't wall you out of being able to use it's products and features on specific devices and operating systems which many of Apples products do?
 
This is the least likely company I'd use an AI assistant from.

Lets remember this one...

"People just submitted it. I don't know why. They 'trust me'. Dumb ****s." -Mark Zuckerberg​

 
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iPhoneFan5349 said:
Meanwhile Siri can’t answer basic questions. People don’t get it, this is the doom of Apple finally and they haven’t even realize it. Personal assistants will be the new it and Apple can’t do one, doesn’t matter how many years you give them. They say all the AI features will be coming next year, think again, they won’t be coming ever. If they come they will be just as bad as Siri is and nobody will care.
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It's really easy to train your models when you do what ever you want. Maybe Apple should start doing the same ...

www.socialmediatoday.com

Meta To Face Legal Scrutiny Over the Use of Copyright Protected Works To Train AI Models

The company will have to face trial over the alleged use of pirated works in its AI dataset.
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I would use Meta AI as a standalone app. Will not using as a part of the apps/software from Meta.
 
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cjsuk said:
This is the least likely company I'd use an AI assistant from.

Lets remember this one...

"People just submitted it. I don't know why. They 'trust me'. Dumb ****s." -Mark Zuckerberg​

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Unfortunately that's true:

When Mark Zuckerberg started Facebook in 2003, he intended for it to be an online destination where people could connect with friends that would, in its own small way, make the world a better place. Just kidding—as my colleague, Nick Bilton, reminds us, back in Zuck’s Harvard days, The Facebook, as it was then known, was little more than a bizarre social experiment in which Zuckerberg got to see how many people would blindly turn over their information to him. “I have over 4,000 e-mails, pictures, addresses, SNS,” Zuckerberg bragged to a friend. “People just submitted it. I don’t know why. They ‘trust me.’ Dumb ****s.” And 15 years later, not much has changed! One of the reasons Facebook is in such a steaming pile of **** at the moment is because the way in which Cambridge Analytica got its hands on millions of people’s information that they then used to nefarious ends was completely legitimate. There was no data breach: Facebook set things up so firms like Cambridge could simply help themselves (the company claims it has since fixed things).

www.vanityfair.com

Mark Zuckerberg Generates Facsimile of Remorse After Siphoning the World's Data

That is not at all what Zuck intended when he founded Facebook, WINK WINK.
www.vanityfair.com www.vanityfair.com
 
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