WhatsApp, the widely-used messaging platform owned by Meta, is in the process of developing an innovative feature that will allow users to create personalized AI-generated avatars.
This new tool leverages advanced artificial intelligence technology to produce unique digital representations based on user inputs and preferences.
The in-development feature, spotted in the new WhatsApp Beta for Android 2.24.14.7 by WABetaInfo, will seemingly use a combination of user-supplied images, text prompts, and Meta’s AI Llama model to generate the images.
To create the personalized avatar, WhatsApp users will need to “take photos of yourself once” which will then be used to train Meta AI to produce images in the user’s likeness in any setting. WhatsApp users will then be able to generate their avatars by typing “Imagine me” with a description of the setting in Meta AI chat, or in other WhatsApp conversations by typing “@Meta AI imagine me…”
The feature will reportedly be optional and will require users to manually enable it in the WhatsApp settings before it can be used. WABetaInfo also says that the reference images can be deleted at any time via the Meta AI settings.
