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February 28, 2023\u00a0\u00a0\u2022\u00a0\u00a04 min read<\/span> \u00a0\u2022\u00a0 By Marty Swant<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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With Snapchat and Meta both recently debuting new artificial intelligence capabilities, social media\u2019s race to incorporate generative AI is gaining traction.<\/p>\n

Snap yesterday <\/strong>released a new chatbot for Snapchat called \u201cMy AI,\u201d which is powered by OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT<\/a> and helps generate text-based messages to answer trivia answers, write haikus, come up with recipe ideas and plan trips. But despite all the potential fun, Snap \u2014 which is making the feature available to paying users through its Snapchat Plus version \u2014 was also upfront with users by warning that things could still go wrong<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\u201cPlease be aware of its many deficiencies and sorry in advance,\u201d read Snap\u2019s blog post<\/a>. \u201cAll conversations with My AI will be stored and may be reviewed to improve the product experience. Please do not share any secrets with My AI and do not rely on it for advice. While My AI is designed to avoid biased, incorrect, harmful, or misleading information, mistakes may occur.\u201d<\/p>\n

Although the feature is only for paying subscribers, the number of Snapchat+ users isn\u2019t necessarily small. According to Snap, there are now 2.5 million users paying for early access to features such as My AI who will also help provide feedback as the company builds its AI capabilities.<\/p>\n

Integrating ChatGPT into Snapchat could give users another reason to spend time in the app \u2014 and maybe even another reason for others to try using the app. Snap also worked with OpenAI to train the chatbot to have a tone based on Snapchat\u2019s personality as an app and also to adhere to the platform\u2019s trust and safety guidelines.<\/p>\n

Although marketers praised Snap for being early with rolling out a new AI-generated feature, there still doesn\u2019t seem to be any clear uses brands might want to tap into \u2014 at least not yet.<\/p>\n

\u201cUntil they get to some audience, I\u2019m not sure if brands are going to be clamoring to get in there,\u201d said Brian Yamada, chief innovation officer for VMLY&R. \u201cThere\u2019s plenty for brands to explore on their own outside [of Snapchat].\u201d<\/p>\n

The news comes just days after Meta provided a glimpse of how it is thinking about generative AI. But rather than announce any features for everyday Facebook and Instagram users, Meta\u2019s news has more immediate potential for researchers. On Friday last week, the social giant announced its latest large language model called LLaMA<\/a>, which is short for Large Language Model Meta AI. It\u2019s also smaller than some others. For example, OpenAI\u2019s GPT-3 has 175 billion parameters, but Meta\u2019s LLaMA includes models that range in size from 7 billion to 65 billion.<\/p>\n

In Meta\u2019s blog post<\/a> and about LLaMA, the company also acknowledged there\u2019s still more work to be done when researching and addressing risks of bias, toxic comments and wrong answers. It also said the plan is to allow access on a case-by-case basis to academic researchers and others that are affiliated with governments, civil society organizations and industry labs.<\/p>\n

Alex Olesen, vp of vertical strategy and product marketing at Persado, a marketing AI company, said Meta\u2019s new large language models and the bots used to train them to have the potential to help resource-strapped companies. Others point out that Meta\u2019s news doesn\u2019t really help businesses yet with their own AI efforts.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s critical that businesses ensure that generative AI is trained on trusted, pre-qualified enterprise data before using it for marketing or customer service,\u201d Olesen said via email. \u201cIn the past few weeks, there have been numerous reports about generative AI bots serving up content that is wildly off.\u201d<\/p>\n

There\u2019s still a question of whether businesses and everyday users want this type of AI functionality. In a survey by the Morning Consult earlier this month, just 10% of consumers said they thought generative outputs were \u201cvery\u201d trustworthy, 42% thought AI tech can\u2019t be easily controlled and 44% didn\u2019t think it\u2019ll be developed responsibly. And when asked about their specific concerns, 74% mentioned being \u201cvery\u201d or \u201csomewhat\u201d worried about their personal data privacy while 70% mentioned being wary about misinformation being included in AI-generated search results.<\/p>\n

Marketers and AI experts say Meta is wise to limit the size of its large language model. For example, it could help Meta mitigate other risks that some warn of when it comes to generative content \u2014 and thereby avoiding a repeat of some of the mistakes it\u2019s made in the past with data privacy and misinformation.<\/p>\n

By allowing limited access to its large language model, Meta is making it \u201ca bit more of a controlled substance than a street drug,\u201d according to Steve Susi, director of brand communication at the brand strategy firm Siegel+Gale.<\/p>\n

\u201cImagine a tennis court the size of the universe and the referees are really only at maybe one certain section of it,\u201d Susi said. \u201cAnd all the rest of that tennis court, that whole real estate, is where new cool weird games are being made that don\u2019t follow tennis rules. There\u2019s no one there to watch, but it\u2019s still an incredibly powerful AI apparatus that could be misused.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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