Meta's dream of AI-generated users isn't going anywhere

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• Last week, people noticed (and hated) AI-generated users that were created and managed by Meta.
• But these AI bots were actually a year old, and mostly defunct. Meta has now deleted them.
• This is all totally separate from what a Meta exec described as a future with AI-generated users.

There's been some confusion about Meta's ambitions for AI-generated users. Let me clear it up for you: Meta is still, definitely...