According to a report by the Financial Times, Facebook parent Meta (META) is building an AI bot resembling its CEO, Mark Zuckerberg. Set to be an internal tool to offer feedback and ideate with employees, the bot will be trained on Zuckerberg's public appearances, tone, thoughts about the company's strategy, and mannerisms. The initiative is aligned with the company's broader ambitions of developing photorealistic 3D avatars that can interact in real time.
This development is not a novel one from the stable of Meta. In 2024, the company's AI Studio platform enabled creators to create AI versions of themselves to communicate with their fanbases via DMs. Although that did not pick up, naysayers should take note of another noteworthy development in the interim.
