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PSA: If you use the Meta AI app, your friends will find out and it will be embarrassing

Now that Meta released its Muse Spark model, more people are downloading the Meta AI app. And if you join the app, your friends will probably get an Instagram notification about it.

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PSA: If you use the Meta AI app, your friends will find out and it will be embarrassing

Now that Meta released its Muse Spark model, more people are downloading the Meta AI app. And if you join the app, your friends will prob...

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