Snapchat Launches AI-Generated Photo Feature, Plus Members Can Customize Shares


Snap partners with Perplexity in a $4B deal to integrate its AI search engine into Snapchat, powering the 'My AI' chatbot for 940M monthly users by early 2026.....
Snapchat's AI image tool 'Imagine Lens' is now free for all users, enabling text-to-image generation and editing to compete with Meta AI and OpenAI in attracting younger audiences.....
Snapchat recently announced an expanded partnership with Google Cloud, focusing on enhancing the generative AI capabilities of Snapchat's My AI chatbot. Through this collaboration, My AI will be able to leverage the multimodal capabilities of Google's Gemini AI to understand and process a variety of information, including text, audio, images, and video. At Snap's annual partner summit, Snapchat showcased Gemini-powered features.
The police in New Mexico, USA, used AI-generated images of a virtual 14-year-old girl to lure sexual offenders, aiming to investigate the protection of children from sexual exploitation on the Snapchat platform. This method has sparked discussions on ethics, legality, and AI ethics, particularly regarding the legality of AI-generated images, privacy rights, and consent issues. Legal experts point out that creating and using deepfake child sexual abuse material is illegal and concerning. Moreover, the requirement for real children's images as training datasets for AI-generated images raises concerns about children.
Snapchat has announced the upcoming launch of augmented reality filters powered by ChatGPT. Developers can use the new beta version of LensStudio to create filters that incorporate ChatGPT. This new feature can also be used to create quizzes or random generators as major platforms roll out generative AI-powered creative tools.