Meta’s including one other AI component to WhatsApp, this time by way of a brand new picture creation instrument, which can allow you to put your self inside fantastical scenes on your profile pic.

As you’ll be able to see on this screenshot, posted by Android Authority, Meta’s creating a brand new “Think about Me” characteristic in WhatsApp, which might allow you to create AI-powered variations of your profile picture, primarily based on textual content prompts.

To activate the method, you’ll merely add a selfie, or a group of selfies, then kind in “Think about me…” and the setting in case your selection.

As per Android Authority:

“Though not obtainable but, a leaked screenshot of the characteristic signifies that you simply’ll be requested to add a handful of reference selfies while you first choose into the characteristic. The Meta AI chatbot will then create new photos that “think about” your self in several environments “like a forest or outer house”.”

The method sounds similar to Snapchat’s “Desires” selfie era instrument.

Desires is successfully the identical factor, enabling you to generate AI variations of your self, with the method then inserting your face into completely different eventualities and personas.

Which is sort of enjoyable, I assume, and it may very well be an attention-grabbing addition for WhatsApp, offering extra artistic choices to the platform’s billions of customers.

But it surely’s not precisely a game-changer, and it nonetheless seems like we’re ready for a killer use case for AI inside social and messaging apps. Meta additionally added its AI chatbot to Fb, Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp, again in April, and whereas functionally, that does add one thing to every app, it doesn’t really feel like a transformative add-on as but.

Meta’s additionally experimenting with the choice to create an AI model of your self, because it appears to be like to grow to be a frontrunner within the AI house.

However do any of those options add greater than novelty worth? Are these truly worthwhile, enduring choices that can improve platform engagement?

Perhaps I’m overlooking the enjoyable of it, however it looks like Meta actually must discover a extra worthwhile use case for AI, contemplating that it is investing billions of {dollars} into the event of its AI fashions.

I imply, actually, Meta’s funding is geared toward the way forward for computing, and finally, synthetic basic intelligence (AGI). That’s the Holy Grail of AI, in constructing methods that may truly simulate human thought. However that’s nonetheless a great distance off, and I’m not satisfied that the present wave of AI developments truly gives a heap of worth for social apps.

However, cool selfies, I assume. For billions of {dollars}.

WhatsApp’s “Think about Me” characteristic remains to be in early improvement and isn’t in public testing as but.