Meta has revived its discontinued Facebook Creator Studio as a standalone AI companion app centered on an AI Creator Assistant that provides performance insights, growth recommendations, and automated comment replies. The app is currently in testing with select creators via a waitlist, more than two years after the original platform was shuttered in favor of Business Suite.
Users can also query it to identify the most important audience comments and instantly draft replies in their own voice.
The app’s ability to draft replies to comments has drawn a skeptical reaction, which noted that using an AI chatbot to respond to all audience comments undercuts the idea of genuine community interaction.
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