Facebook adds new AI features, animated profile photos, and backgrounds for text posts

[highplainsdem]

Source: TechCrunch

Facebook announced new AI-powered features on Tuesday designed to let users express themselves in more playful ways across the platform. The updates include animated profile pictures, photo-restyling tools for Stories and Memories, and the ability to add animated backgrounds to text posts.

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The new animated profile picture feature applies motion effects to static photos, making the subject appear to be waving, making a heart shape, or wearing a virtual party hat. To achieve the best results, Facebook recommends using a clear photo of a single person facing the camera. Photos can be pulled directly from a user’s camera roll or from images already on the platform. The company also plans to add more animation options throughout the year.

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After uploading a photo to Stories or selecting a Memory to share, users can tap Restyle and either enter a text-based prompt or select from preset themes, including anime, illustrated, glowy, ethereal, and more. There are also options to adjust moods, lighting, and colors, and to swap in new backdrops such as a beach or a cityscape.

​To spice up text posts, Facebook is also gradually rolling out animated backgrounds. By clicking on the new rainbow “A” icon, users can choose from a variety of still and animated scenes, such as falling leaves or rolling ocean waves, to make their posts stand out in the feed. The company says that seasonal backgrounds are coming soon.

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Read more: https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/10/facebook-adds-new-ai-features-animated-profile-photos-and-backgrounds-for-text-posts/

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This is all so incredibly childish and wasteful of both electricity and water.

Almost all consumer-oriented AI is like this.

AI tools so "playful" childish adults can pretend to create poems, stories, pictures, video and music.

Keep them busy playing with AI, and maybe they won't notice all the harm done by AI, and the way AI bros are accumulating power and wealth.

[OC375]

1. They sure make it easy to give them your data

[purr-rat beauty]

2. I hope it clogs the shit up

Bounced from FB....should have done it sooner

[El Mimbreno]

8. Hell, I got suspended...

as soon as I opened my account. Just wanted it to pick up posts from one of our Party members. Had left Xitter after a few 3 to 7 day suspensions and a visit from FBI and Secret Service. Social media sharing suspension histories?

[Scrivener7]

3. They worked with trump and cambridge analytica to destroy Democracy, and they allow

all kinds of racist, homophobic and sexist crap to proliferate, but here are some cute toys to keep you quiet.

[BadgerKid]

4. and now my life feels complete

[PatSeg]

5. More stupid gimmicks

that don't make the platform any better. Facebook keeps devolving in so many ways.

[ificandream]

6. They started doing this stuff months ago. As a group admin, we had the power to use AI for group discussion ideas.

They turned it on automatically. I turned it right off. No way would I do that crap.

[eppur_se_muova]

7. MORE POWER, SCOTTY !!

I cannae do it, Captain ! The planet cannae take any more strain ! {sparks, smoke, explosions overhead. set goes dark.}