Facebook adds new AI features, animated profile photos and backgrounds for text posts

Facebook announced caller AI-powered features connected Tuesday designed to fto users explicit themselves successful much playful ways crossed the platform. The updates see animated illustration pictures, photograph restyling tools for Stories and Memories, and the quality to adhd animated backgrounds to substance posts.

​As Meta works to support Facebook’s relevance among younger users connected its flagship app, it’s apt betting that these caller features volition present a much personalized acquisition that appeals to Gen Z.

​The caller animated illustration representation diagnostic applies question effects to static photos, making the taxable look to beryllium waving, making a bosom shape, oregon wearing a virtual enactment hat. To execute the champion results, Facebook recommends utilizing a wide photograph of a azygous idiosyncratic facing the camera. Photos tin beryllium pulled straight from a user’s camera rotation oregon from images already connected the platform. The institution besides plans to adhd much animation options passim the year.

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​Facebook is besides enhancing its Stories — abbreviated photograph and video posts that vanish aft 24 hours — and Memories — a diagnostic that resurfaces posts from the aforesaid day successful erstwhile years — with “Restyle,” a instrumentality that uses Meta AI to reimagine the look of user-uploaded images.

After uploading a photograph to Stories oregon selecting a Memory to share, users tin pat Restyle and either participate a text-based punctual oregon prime from preset themes, including anime, illustrated, glowy, ethereal, and more. There are besides options to set moods, lighting, and colors, and to swap successful caller backdrops specified arsenic a formation oregon a cityscape. 

​To spice up substance posts, Facebook is besides gradually rolling retired animated backgrounds. By clicking connected the caller rainbow “A” icon, users tin take from a assortment of inactive and animated scenes, specified arsenic falling leaves oregon rolling water waves, to marque their posts basal retired successful the feed. The institution says that seasonal backgrounds are coming soon.

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​With astir 2.1 cardinal regular progressive users, Facebook remains a societal media giant. However, successful caller years, it has struggled to pull and clasp a younger demographic.

To code this, the level has embraced caller technology, including AI, and introduced a much youthful redesign. Other caller updates see a friends-only feed and the quality to usage unique show names wrong Groups, akin to however Reddit handles usernames successful its communities. The level is besides attempting to marque its poke feature — a mode to pat different idiosyncratic connected the shoulder, truthful to talk — applicable again by launching a caller dedicated fastener connected users’ profiles that alerts the recipient to a poke via notifications.