Whatsapp seems to be engaged on a brand new generative AI characteristic that ought to permit customers to make personalised avatars of themselves to be used in any imagined setting. The in-development characteristic, noticed within the new WhatsApp Beta for Android 2.24.14.7 by WABetaInfo, will seemingly use a mix of user-supplied pictures, textual content prompts, and Meta’s AI Llama mannequin to generate the pictures.
A screenshot shared by WABetaInfo says that customers can think about themselves “in any setting from the forest to outer area.” The examples look pretty typical for these produced by AI mills, notably when you’ve used apps like Lensa AI or Snapchat’s “Dreams” selfie feature.
To create the personalised avatar, WhatsApp customers might want to “take pictures of your self as soon as” which can then be used to coach Meta AI to supply pictures within the person’s likeness in any setting. WhatsApp customers will then have the ability to generate their avatars by typing “Think about me” with an outline of the setting in Meta AI chat, or in different WhatsApp conversations by typing “@Meta AI think about me…”
The characteristic will reportedly be optionally available, and would require customers to manually allow it within the WhatsApp settings earlier than it may be used. WABetaInfo additionally says that the reference pictures could be deleted at any time through the Meta AI settings.