{"id":533295,"date":"2024-04-19T14:21:29","date_gmt":"2024-04-19T12:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=533295"},"modified":"2024-04-19T14:21:29","modified_gmt":"2024-04-19T12:21:29","slug":"whatsapp-image-generation-ai-getting-major-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/ai\/533295-whatsapp-image-generation-ai-getting-major-update.html","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp image generation AI getting major update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp is rolling out live image generation as part of its AI assistant feature.<\/p>\n<p>Meta announced this on Thursday evening, along with the debut of their new AI model, Llama 3.<\/p>\n<p>The Meta AI assistant was launched on WhatsApp late <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/532481-whatsapps-meta-ai-feature-rolls-out-in-south-africa-features-and-privacy-protection-explained.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">last week<\/a><\/strong>, sparking some controversy on social media.<\/p>\n<p>Users interact with Meta AI as they would with any other chat on WhatsApp.<\/p>\n<p>When in conversation with the assistant, users can chat as if they were chatting to a person.<\/p>\n<p>They can then enter prompts such as \u201cImagine\u201d, which will trigger the assistant to generate images.<\/p>\n<p>Meta uses the example of \u201cImagine a soccer game on Mars.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-533297\" src=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/06_Emu-Flash-1-3.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"836\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As users type the description of their \u201cImagine\u201d prompt, the image will \u201cchange with every few letters typed, so you can watch as Meta AI brings your vision to life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meta mentions that its AI image generation is now \u201csharper and higher quality\u201d and is better at understanding text.<\/p>\n<p>Users can also ask the Meta AI assistant to animate the image, turning it into a GIF.<\/p>\n<p>The Meta AI image generator is also available as a web app. However, it is currently only being rolled out in the US.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-533299\" src=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/07_Imagine-Animate-1.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"836\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta is rolling out live AI image generation on WhatsApp that updates as you type.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341175,"featured_media":533303,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[92837],"tags":[89838,35793,161,93675,40812,93705,2594],"class_list":["post-533295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ai","tag-ai-image-generator","tag-artificial-intelligence-ai","tag-facebook","tag-llama-3","tag-meta","tag-meta-ai","tag-whatsapp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533295"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341175"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/533303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}