Meta is expanding access to its AI chat to 21 more countries as the company builds on the generative AI push.
According to Meta's Ahmed Al-Dahle, Meta's AI chatbot is now available to users in Brazil, Bolivia, Guatemala, Paraguay, Philippines, and the United Kingdom. It will soon come to Algeria, Egypt, Indonesia, Iraq, Jordan, Libya, Malaysia, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Thailand, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Vietnam and Yemen, and expand its support for more languages.

Expansion translates into a bigger users' base, who can now enjoy Meta's bettered AI chatbot, the company claims, is going to be world's most widely used assistant by the end of 2024.

Not sure, though, if that may prove to be an endorsement of its utility.

Meta is piling its chatbot into each of its search tools across all its apps, which would automatically bestow prime placement in front of billions of active users. So it seems more like a nod to the scale of Meta, rather than functional value.

However, still Meta is claiming victory, and an endorsement of the worth of its AI strategy, even if the worth of that remains a question on broader scale.

Not in terms of technological advance, and the capacity for further assistance in queries. But questionable as to the impact that it'll have on Meta's apps, and its broader content ecosphere.

For example, Meta is always developing new visual generative AI tools, video generative AI feature which will be launching soon.
And those are interesting, but these are not human created and not adding to the human engagement factor for social applications.
 
In fact, Meta is already facing huge inflations of spammy AI-generated engagement bait that hurts the user experience.
So the answer, then, is to give even more users even more ways to generate fake content?

Yeah, I'm not sold on this as a direction of travel, but Meta's hellbent on spearheading the gen AI revolution, and part of that is getting users all jazzed up about the creative potential of AI. Even, apparently, if that cuts against the actual value of its platforms.

So, more AI in more places, starting today.

Worth noting too, that Meta recently won approval to include U.K. user posts in its AI training, after negotiation with British authorities, which will help improve the local relevance of its AI bot push in the region.

Probably. That's what Meta says, anyway.