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Generative AI tools are hot. Nowadays, it seems like there’s a generative AI tool for almost every application. Websites can be built, songs can be created, software can be developed, and images can be generated. The last one is one of my favourites.

I’m an active member of a, what we call it in The Netherlands, “dispuut” (comparable with a fraternity) of a student association. Every Wednesday, I send a WhatsApp message to all active members of my dispuut, to inform them about the drinks of the coming week, accompanied by a funny anecdote of the past week.

A couple of weeks after the sending of these messages became my responsibility, I started experimenting with adding cartoon pictures, created by Chat-GPT, showing what’s coming or what has happened in a funny format, so that people would have a laugh. I added an example of these as the featured image of this blog post.

Since the moment I started doing this, a month ago, I’ve noticed a couple of things. On a positive note, the images are generated in the same style every time. Because of this, I can create a certain style of images that I want to create week in, week out. But on a negative note, Chat-GPT doesn’t always implement your feedback, even if it tells you that it did. And sometimes, it fails to explain why the image generation request couldn’t be followed up with generating an image. It’d be nice if there were a clear and concise explanation of why it wasn’t possible to generate the image, so that the request could be changed appropriately.

In conclusion, the possibility of having pictures generated by Chat-GPT is very fun, but it doesn’t always work out the way you want to.

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Meta AI; the generative AI assistant developed by Meta, the owner of platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. Just like ChatGPT, with which we are all familiar, Meta AI is a chatbot.

“Maybe there’s a way they can integrate this chatbot into (one of their) platforms?”, I hear you thinking. And that’s exactly what’s happening. Over the last couple of months, more-and-more users are gaining access to Meta AI in their WhatsApp application.

This integration of an AI bot into WhatsApp surely carries some advantages with it. For example, you can ask Meta AI a question in a chat with someone else. Also, there’s the possibility to have a one-on-one conversation with the chatbot, but that’s nothing new.

But, with the absensce of a possibility to turn Meta AI of on WhatsApp, it’s feeling like Meta is forcing their chatbot on the users of their platform, in an attempt to convince their users of their chatbot. But is this the way to move forward?

For me, it’s clear that Meta is trying to strenghten her market position by bundling. Including her own chatbot in the most used messenger app worldwide sounds like nothing but a recipe for succes.

On the short term, it doesn’t feel like the move. People that are using AI chatbots already (e.g. for educational purposes), will probably keep on using the same AI chatbots as before, and the people that aren’t, will probably be “frightened” by the addition of an AI chatbot, and in a worst-case scenario abandon the platform. On the long term, my guess will be that more-and-more users will start using Meta AI in their chats, and the marketshare of Meta will grow. People will be getting curious, and less “frightened” by the addition of a new function to their favourite messenger application.

I’m excited for what the future of Meta AI on WhatsApp will bring!