‘Can we work out a deal where you pay ME and I get no AI at all?’ Meta wants you to pay for more AI — one brutal response suggests people might rather pay to make it go away
Meta One, launched this week, packages additional features with expanded access to some of the company’s most compute-intensive AI tools.Pay $7.99 a month for Core and you can generate more images and videos, use Instagram’s AI Restyle tools more often and generally enjoy a larger serving of Meta AI. Can we work out a deal where you pay ME and I get no AI at all?”It is a very good joke. It may also be an unexpectedly good piece of product strategy.
- ▪Meta One, launched this week, packages additional features with expanded access to some of the company’s most compute-intensive AI tools.Pay $7.99 a month for Core and you can generate more images and videos, use Instagram’s AI Restyle tool
- ▪Can we work out a deal where you pay ME and I get no AI at all?”It is a very good joke.
- ▪It may also be an unexpectedly good piece of product strategy.
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AI Platforms & Assistants ‘Can we work out a deal where you pay ME and I get no AI at all?’ Meta wants you to pay for more AI — one brutal response suggests people might rather pay to make it go away Features By Eric Hal Schwartz Published 17 September 2026 Meta One may be the opposite of what people want When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. (Image credit: Meta / Shutterstock / Cookie Studio) Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Threads Email Share this article 0 Join the conversation Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter Meta has a new proposition for anyone who looks at Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp and thinks they could use a little more artificial…
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