The company’s CEO states that we could talk to artificial intelligence every day. The new feature has divided users’ opinions.
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The social media service Snapchat now allows you to chat with artificial intelligence. Snapchat has started using artificial intelligence bots. The popularity of conversational artificial intelligence bots is constantly increasing, such as ChatGPT developed by OpenAI.
Snapchat’s AI bot also uses ChatGPT’s language model.
– The idea behind this is that in addition to the daily chat for family members, we could also chat to the artificial intelligence on a daily basis, CEO of Snap Evan Spiegel says.
The service is available to Snapchat plus subscribers. The service currently costs 4.99 euros per month for Android users and 4.49 euros per month for iPhone users. The annual prices of the service are 34.99 euros for iPhone, but this is not offered to Android users. According to the company, the price information may change.
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This is how you use artificial intelligence
If the application is installed and you are a Snapchat plus subscriber, the implementation is easy, at least According to Laptopmag publication.
Go to the chat feature of the app.
Click on “My AI”.
Accept the start of the conversation.
You can start chatting to the AI.
Criticism of the service
It is worth noting that artificial intelligence may collect information about youwith which the application’s “user experience could be improved”, meaning that the collected data is used, for example, for better targeted advertisements.
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Techcrunch reports, that the service has received a lot of bad reviews in the app store with the release of the artificial intelligence feature. The quality of the service has also been criticized on social media sites.
Among other things, awkward conversations with artificial intelligence have been shared on the social media service Twitter. Users are also annoyed by the fact that the AI conversation is locked at the top of the conversation window.
Although the idea of artificial intelligence as a conversation partner is fun, it is clearly not a human-like conversational companion. At least not yet.