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Man freaked after Snapchat AI uploaded picture of his room which he didn't take

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Updated 13:53 26 Feb 2024 GMTPublished 13:54 26 Feb 2024 GMT

Man freaked after Snapchat AI uploaded picture of his room which he didn't take

Snapchat started rolling out AI features in 2023.

Prudence Wade

Prudence Wade

Snapchat added some interesting AI features to its app last year, but a viral post suggests that at least one of them hasn't always necessarily worked as intended.

The 'My AI' feature on Snapchat is meant to just be a sort of chatbot to help answer quick questions without having to swap to a different app but it's not always been smooth sailing.

Back in August 2023 there were reports of some people finding the chatbot wasn't responsive, something that Snapchat eventually said was a system outage, but that's way less weird than what happened to X (formerly Twitter) user Matt Esparza.

He posted a video showing My AI popping up in his feed of stories, which isn't meant to really happen, but even stranger was what it posted.

The incredibly short video is just a confusing pair of colours, but Esparza posted it next to an image of the join between the wall and ceiling in his home and it looked like a perfect match.

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This meant that he suspected that My AI somehow posted a short video that he had never actually taken to a story that wasn't supposed to exist, which is quite a wild series of events if it's accurate.

Others found themselves in similar situations, with one X user posting: "My AI on Snapchat just posted a story of a ceiling. And now I’m thinking killer robots have invaded my apartment."

Snap - the company behind Snapchat - didn't stayed completely silent on this one, though.

A spokesperson told TechCrunch at the time: “My AI experienced a temporary outage that’s now resolved.”

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Matt Cardy / Contributor / Getty

Still, the sheer fact that the chatbot was able to post a story of any kind is interesting on its own, given that this hasn't been a feature of it so far, since it's been limited to chat instead.

When it first launched, Snap left that a bit open-ended by saying it couldn't "at this time", suggesting that it might be able to post stories at some point.

If you log onto Snapchat anytime soon and see a weird image from My AI that looks suspiciously like a bit of your surroundings, though, it looks like you can stand down and not worry too much about it somehow taking control of your camera.

Featured Image Credit: NurPhoto / Contributor / Getty / Matt Esparza
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