AI-generated user accounts are the new normal for Instagram and Facebook parent, Meta. Here's how AI influencers and artificial accounts are evolving.

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You’ll find Meta AI front and center in Meta’s apps: In the Facebook Messenger app, for example, tap Chats and you’ll see a Meta AI input box right at the top, above your real life friends and family members. Tap inside that box, and you can start chatting about whatever topic you like. You can also tap Meta AI on the tab bar at the bottom.

If you’re a teen and had any sort of hunch that certain topics were being blocked from your Instagram feed, you were probably onto something. In a new report for User Mag, Taylor Lorenz writes that Meta has apparently been restricting LGBTQ+ content from its search and discovery pages for months now.

Currently, Instagram teen accounts restrict what users can see, and the setting can only be reversed by a parent or guardian.