Nothing gives best friend energy quite like silicon and some 1's and 0's. Fresh off the heels of Meta’s dystopian AI influencers modeled after real celebrities, the social networking platform Instagram is reportedly working on its own customizable artificial intelligence friends. Code sleuth Alessandro Paluzzi tweeted screenshots of the Instagram interfaces showing the AI on Monday, as first spotted by TechCrunch.
Company co-founder Rob Morris told Gizmodo earlier this year that “this is going to be the future.” Users in the role of counselors could generate responses using Koko Bot—an application of OpenAI’s ChatGPT3—which could then be edited, sent, or rejected altogether. 30,000 messages were reportedly created using the tool which received positive responses, but Koko pulled the plug because the chatbot felt sterile.