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The new Meta.ai website can draw amazing AI art instantly
Meta has launched Meta.ai, an AI-specific site with a cool hook that its competitors don't offer: it can generate images in real time, and even animate them on demand.
there Is One catch, however: Meta would really like to continue improving Meta.ai, and to do so it's only offering image creation if you're signed in to your Facebook account.
Meta integrates with other LLMS or AI chatbots such as Google Gemini, Different flavors of Microsoft's Copilot.of Anthropic Claude Ai (used Inside Discord), and other sites that offer AI solutions. Meta.ai feels somewhat similar, albeit with some limitations: it can't accept uploaded documents, but it can summarize websites or web pages. Of course, it also has creative purposes: it can be used to write or rewrite text, as can many other services.
Technically, Meta is upgrading Meta AI as well as launching the site itself. Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta announced Addition of the Meta.ai site to Threads — also owned by Meta — as well as an upgrade to the LLaMA 3 model. Meta launched LLaMA in February 2023, and publicly released the 65-billion parameter model. LLaMA 3 will also be open source, Zuckerberg said.
But there's more: “We're making MetaAI easier to use by integrating search boxes at the top of WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook and Messenger,” Zuckerberg added. In other words, expect Meta AI to be all over your social media.
The best thing about Meta.ai is its image generation – which is also its biggest problem, if you don't really want to tell Facebook what you're creating images of, or in general Do not subscribe to Facebook or Instagram. But the image development can be unlike anything you've ever seen. If you're familiar with how Google or Bing automatically generate suggestions as you type, Meta does almost the same thing—except it takes actual pictures as you type. have been
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It does so at high speed, even if the final image doesn't necessarily come out as quickly as some final images. When complete, Meta produces four 1280×1280 images, which can be highlighted or displayed at larger sizes. They are all downloadable, and all come with the “Imagined by AI” watermark. Images can also be edited after completion, making changes to the finished product.
The other feature Meta offers, however, is the ability to animate each resulting image. It's nothing like Runway or Sora. Instead, Meta.ai generates a few frames of video before and after the original image, like a GIF. This process took at least 30 seconds to a minute on my screen. (On the second try, it seemed to lock up and didn't complete after several minutes.)
One has to wonder if Meta, as the owner of Facebook, would allow AI art to be created on Facebook as a way to create disinformation. A quick attempt to try and attract Donald Trump produced a non-specific error message. But any image you create can still be downloaded and the watermark is removed.
Meta.ai is good enough to offer that we'd recommend you give it a try. But I think it's fair to say that this will have a long-term impact not on Meta.ai but on other Facebook-owned properties.
