Snap Reassures Users That My AI is Not Coming to Life

No, Snapchat’s My AI chatbot hasn’t gained sentience, though it did freak a variety of people out by posting a Story this week.

As you’ll be able to see in this instance, the My AI profile randomly shared this strange video frame as a Story yesterday, then shortly after, the bot stopped responding to people’s questions.

That had many questioning the meaning of the only frame image. Was this a shot of a roof, possibly the roof where the My AI server lives? Was this an encoded message of some sort, designed to speak with the skin world? Was My AI actually coming to life?

The last query really freaked people out, because a lot of them have had a fun time teasing and scary the bot, in an effort to make it say controversial things.

What if it was taking notes, and now, it was coming alive?

But it surely’s not, don’t stress.

Shortly after the Story was published, Snap confirmed that My AI had suffered a glitch, and that it was now back to normal.

“My AI experienced a short lived outage that’s now resolved. At the moment, My AI doesn’t have Stories feature.” 

Interesting wording. “At the moment” could imply that Snap is trying to add this functionality in future, and possibly this glitch was a part of an expanded test that might see My AI sharing Stories updates, possibly even unique Stories based in your queries to the bot.

Though given the responses, Snap will wish to tread fastidiously on this front, as AI paranoia could trigger some negative reactions, which could do the alternative of endearing people to the synthetic character.

Snap’s already experienced several issues with My AI, with users upset that it was mechanically added to the highest of their inbox, while it’s also needed to implement safeguards inside the chat process, after a few of its responses were deemed inappropriate.

I mean, all AI bots have the potential to go off the rails, as they’re based on web-based inputs, a lot of that are off the rails themselves, and if it’s being trained on random junk, it’s going to pump out not less than some random rubbish itself at times. Which is why you’ll be able to’t put all of your faith in such tools, though the chance of sentience, not less than at this stage, stays pretty low.

Generative AI tools are based on statistics and equations, so that they’re not “learning” a lot as they’re iterating based on the most definitely combos and inputs. That’s still impressive, especially considering the outcomes that they’ll produce, but it surely’s not like they’re “pondering”. They’re just a greater version of predictive text, which you’ll be able to obviously tune to a much higher degree, however the actual outputs are of no concern, as such, for the system itself.

So My AI isn’t showing you where it lives, or where you reside, or anything, and also you’re not going to get up and see that weird purple character eyeing you from down the darkened hallway.

Probably. Not yet, not less than.