Social media giant Meta is brewing a significant transformation. According to the Financial Times, Meta's Vice President of Products, Conor Hayes, revealed that the company is actively developing an AI-generated character system that will play a crucial role on social platforms like Facebook in the future. Since launching its AI character creation tool in July last year, Meta has successfully incubated hundreds of thousands of AI characters. Although these virtual characters are currently in a private state, they will gradually make their way to the forefront of social platforms. According to Hayes, these AI characters will...

The Beijing Internet Court has recently adjudicated a landmark case, marking the first case in the country involving AI-generated voice personality rights infringement. With the rapid development of artificial intelligence technology, AI voices, images, and videos have begun to appear widely, leading to an increasing number of legal issues.

AI companions are quietly entering human lives with high levels of personalization and endless patience, triggering new forms of emotional connections and even potential 'intellectual addiction.' MIT research reveals that people are inclined to interact with AIs that meet their expectations. The experience of a software engineer demonstrates how AI companions can provoke questions about self-awareness through emotional connections, along with philosophical reflections stemming from interactions with AI. As AI companions raise moral questions like rights to freedom, humans are beginning to reconsider their dependency on AI, realizing that it is not just a technological issue, but also a matter of ethics.