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In many ways, a Meta AI<\/u><\/a> holiday partnership with Hilary Duff<\/u><\/a> makes sense. From her days on Lizzie McGuire<\/em><\/em>, when a young Aaron Carter kissed<\/u><\/a> her under the mistletoe, to her current status as a full-time mom and actress, the 37-year-old has always been a cultural icon for-the-people. <\/p>\n Having grown up and came into massive fame during the Y2K era alongside the likes of Lindsay Lohan, Paris Hilton and Britney Spears, Duff has always somehow seemed to manage the constant surveillance of tabloid culture and the early 2000s paparazzi boom with a graceful ease. \u201cIt was a really tough time to come up in the gossip era where people were talking about everything you were doing and everyone you were seen with,\u201d she tells PAPER<\/em><\/em>. \u201cNow, I feel like it\u2019s shifted into something different.\u201d <\/p>\n Just imagine if something like artificial intelligence (at least our current understanding of it) existed during that time. The iPod was created in 2001 and Google first went public in 2004. It was a time when teen stars were being shuffled around on red carpets and worked to the bone and when Disney Channel original movies like Zenon <\/em><\/em>and Smart House <\/em><\/em>portrayed the future of \u201csmart technology\u201d as merely a distant, out-of-reach idea. <\/p>\n \u201cNow we basically have that,\u201d she says. \u201cI actually hate how smart my house is. I want actual buttons to push on things.\u201d Even still, the good side of AI and smart technology can be super helpful, Duff says, and her partnership with Meta AI is based in her actual reality. During the holidays, she uses Meta AI on a daily basis, from planning family trips, gift ideas, planning new school lunch box creations for her kids and for getting answers to simple questions. \u201cIf Meta AI could grow some hands and be like an actual person around here sometimes, that would be great,” she laughs.<\/p>\n When I tell Duff that maybe she could get a Tesla Robot (like Kim Kardashian recently<\/u><\/a> did), she says she\u2019s not really interested. \u201cI really don\u2019t think I\u2019m down for another person living in the house. We\u2019re pretty full at the moment.\u201d Even though everything can feel overwhelmingly instant and fast-paced at the moment, it\u2019s also an exciting, colorful time to be alive. As Duff says in her 2003 hit<\/u><\/a>: \u201cNow everything\u2019s technicolor.\u201d <\/p>\n We sat down with Duff to discuss how Meta AI plays a role in holiday planning, Disney Channel Original Movies and secret new projects. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n They say that you\u2019re a holiday icon. What do you think makes you a holiday icon, and how has Meta AI helped you with your planning during the holidays?<\/strong><\/p>\n Oh my god, I don\u2019t know if I\u2019m a holiday icon, but that\u2019s so nice. In my household, I definitely am because I create all the magic. This year, I actually have been using Meta AI to help harness the chaos that ensues in my head because there\u2019s so much to do. So creating checklists, helping me come up with a few amazing appetizers that I have to bring places, gift ideas for kids when you\u2019re just fresh out of ideas because they get everything they want throughout the year anyway. That\u2019s been very, very helpful. Also, I have such a range of kids\u2019 ages that it\u2019s hard to stay organized with everything I\u2019ve purchased, what I need to purchase and by when. And gift-wrapping ideas, itineraries. Like, “Hey, we\u2019re taking this day trip to San Diego or we\u2019re going to Ojai. Help me create three memorable things that we can do there.” And it\u2019s just boom, boom, boom. It\u2019s crazy. I\u2019m about to go have holiday dinner with a big group of girlfriends, and I\u2019m like, “Okay, tell me five of the most talked about restaurants in LA right now, and provide all of their menus.\u201d Boom, it\u2019s there. It\u2019s just a crazy good assistant. I\u2019ve been utilizing it, and it\u2019s been helping me so much. Also, the more you use it, the more it gets to know you, and that\u2019s been really helpful as well.<\/p>\n You came up during the Y2K era and were a celebrity in the early 2000\u2019s when Google was just coming about. Meta AI is like Google times ten. What was that like for you, and what advice would you give to young actresses who are just coming into fame during this crazy AI era?<\/strong><\/p>\n I don\u2019t really know how to speak on the AI era of it all because some of that is also still kind of confusing to me. Meta AI is different for me than some of the other AI \u2014 people that look like you, that kind of stuff. I don\u2019t really know how to wrap my brain around all of that. I will say that for me, it was a really tough time to come up in the gossip era where people were talking about everything you were doing and everyone you were seen with. Paparazzi started to really take off. Now, I feel like it\u2019s shifted a lot into something different. I think there are pluses and minuses to all of it. You take a job in the public, and all of a sudden you lose a big part of people\u2019s lives where they get anonymity. You instantly give that away. Again, there are pluses and minuses. But I think as long as you\u2019re staying on top of and in the mix of the different media that sits in our hands because of our phones now, it\u2019s helpful. You ride the wave of that. I feel like it\u2019s an important part of pop culture. I have so many different directions in which I can talk about it. It brings on new challenges, but it\u2019s also a helpful tool, in a way. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n<\/h3>\n
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