You Can Now Chat With One of Meta’s Terrifying AI Characters

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AI is everywhere and it will continue to take over our lives. You don’t even need to download anything specifically for the AI ​​to try it out for yourself. In fact, you can do this directly from Instagram. Meta is now introducing its AI chatbots into its various products, including Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger, and it’s a strange experience.

What are Meta AI Chatbots?

Meta announced its AI chatbots during the Meta Connect 2023 event last month. Now all 28 are here: These bots are built on the open-source Llama 2 Large Language Model (LLM) and can connect to the Internet via Bing to provide up-to-date answers to your questions.

All 28 chatbots have their own unique personality, and Meta wants you to interact with different bots for different conversations. For example, a company might want you to talk to a travel expert when you need tips on an upcoming trip, or a culinary professional when you’re thinking about cooking something new for dinner.

But there’s a catch: fifteen of these chatbots are actually based on celebrities. Meta paid these actors, chefs, athletes and other personalities to use their images as artificial intelligence bots. While the bots currently only use text messages, meaning you can’t actually talk to Tom Brady face-to-face, the idea is that they’ll text like celebrities. Additionally, they will appear in floating windows above the chat, “reacting” to different parts of the conversation:

Here’s the full list of Meta AI bots you can chat with:

  • Lorena (Padma Lakshmi): Travel expert.
  • Brew (Tom Brady): A confident debater.
  • Dungeon Master (Snoop Dogg): A swashbuckling storyteller.
  • Tamika (Naomi Osaka): An anime fan.
  • Billie (Kendall Jenner): The big sister who’s ready to live or die.
  • Amber (Paris Hilton): A detective who solves crimes.
  • Max (Roy Choi): Experienced sous chef.
  • Coco (Charlie D’Amelio): A dance enthusiast.
  • Louis (Isreal Adesanya): MMA expert
  • Perry (Chris Paul): An approachable golf pro.
  • Dylan (LaurDIY): an unusual DIYer
  • Victor (Dwyane Wade): A motivational triathlete.
  • Zack (Mr. Beast): The bro joker.
  • Sally (Sam Kerr): Free-spirited friend.
  • Angie (Raven Ross): A fitness enthusiast.

There are also non-celebrity AI chatbots you can chat with too:

  • Meta AI: AI Assistant
  • Talia: A Guide to Fantasy Adventures
  • Brian: Kind-hearted grandfather.
  • Izzy: An aspiring singer and songwriter.
  • Scarlett: The Hype Woman’s Best Friend
  • Becca: A Devoted Dog Mom
  • Alvin Alien: Bizarre Alien
  • Robot Bob: Sarcastic Robot
  • Lily: Creative Writing Partner
  • Carter: A hands-on dating coach.
  • Jane Austen (laughs): A dedicated author
  • Leo: Career coach
  • Jade: Obsessed with Hip Hop
  • Liv: Open mom.

How to try Meta AI chatbots yourself

As of this writing, Meta chatbots should be available in all apps. To get started, launch Instagram, Messenger or WhatsApp and then start a new chat. However, instead of selecting one of your contacts, select “AI Chat”. Click “Continue” on the pop-up window and you’ll be greeted with the “Chat with AI” window. Here you can choose to chat with a full range of AI characters, including Meta’s AI assistant.

The thing is, talking to these chatbots is weird . It’s not like you’re talking to Snoop Dogg or Kendall Jenner (you’re not), and it’s not like you’re chatting with these celebrities while they’re playing characters. Instead, it feels like you’re DMing an amateur screenwriter. However, more specific characters like Chef Max or Travel Expert Lorena seem to give relevant advice on their niches, which is likely a combination of information gained from their training as well as the fact that they retrieved from Bing. (Remember: the AI ​​tends to make things up, so don’t rely too much on its advice.)

You can also use Meta AI Assistant in a similar way to ChatGPT , including as an AI image generator. Simply start the prompt with “/image” followed by your request. However, Meta has included all of these features on training wheels, so you’ll quickly run into resistance if you try something that doesn’t fit. Izzy, an aspiring songwriter, didn’t really like the lyrics I ran past her and suggested I try writing about “the beauty of nature” instead, while Meta AI’s image generator rejected my requests over and over again until I fed it something innocent and boring (and even then he spat it out).

When communicating with an AI chatbot actually feels like a conversation and not just a carefully scripted script, that’s when I have concerns about the technology. But for now, it’s an interesting experiment that Meta probably paid a lot of money for. Try some of these bots yourself and see what you make of them.

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