Meta added two features: animate your Facebook profile picture with AI from any photo, and a "Dear Algo" tool in Threads where you post what content you want to see more of. The presenter tested both and will check back next week to see if the feed actually changes.
We got some somewhat gimmicky updates out of Meta this week. Like this Animate your Facebook profile picture with Meta AI lets you turn photos and feed posts into share worthy moments. So it didn't show up at first, but then I scrolled down my feed a little bit and got it to show me this. So I guess I've got these two options to animate my profile. That's cool. I guess. Another update out of Meta is you can control your threads feed with new Deer Algo feature. Let's see if this one works for me. I'll go to my Threads account here and can see beta. Change your feed with a post. Just type Dear Algo and describe what you want to see more or less often. Dear Algo okay, so this seems to be working. Show me people who share cool tech and enjoy playing with AI tools. Yeah, I'll post that. And I guess that also shows up on my feed. Yep, so that shows up on my feed too. Let's see if that actually works. Maybe I'll follow up next week.
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