Snapchat’s AI experiments are reaching a new level of maturity, as evidenced by new AI lenses that will let you see what you might look like in the future. Your aging process is just a sample of the upgraded AI on Snapchat, as the company was keen to show off how AI is becoming even more integrated into its platform, including the latest version of Spectacles.
The most notable new feature is “My Selfie,” which uses AI and your photos to create digital avatars based on your selfies. You can then ask social media apps to create AI-generated images and insert your virtual self into them.
This is similar to Meta’s “Imagine” feature, which also creates an AI-created version of you to embed in AI-generated images. A bonus of the Snapchat version is that you can create photos of yourself as well as your friends, if they have created an AI avatar and opted in to the program.
If you subscribe to Snapchat+, your real experiences with friends also get an AI upgrade. Snapchat has promoted the Memories feature for all users with collages and videos. But with Snapchat+, you’ll also get more AI-created information in the form of captions and curated lenses for old photos, all of which add details and reimagine images in new ways.
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The information is also crucial for Snapchat’s advanced My AI ChatbotsWho uses ChatGPT-based models to conduct conversations. Snap announced that it is improving the chatbot’s problem-solving capabilities with visual processing. This means the bot can now interpret images, answer questions about parking rules based on a picture of a sign, identify plants from a picture you took, and even translate text from another language. Like AI avatars, this feature may also look familiar if you’ve used ChatGPT’s image features or the Gemini-powered Google Lens,
If you’re feeling creative but don’t like a lens that makes you look old, the new AI-powered tools in Lens Studio have plenty of opportunities for you. The new Easy Lens tool lets you design lenses by writing text prompts that can theoretically do anything you could think of from a Snapchat filter.
For more advanced creators, GenAI Suite has several new tools, including Body Morph, which creates three-dimensional characters and costumes based on text prompts or uploaded images. There’s also the new Animation Blending feature, which combines multiple animation clips to play together smoothly.