Meta’s AI app is a nightmarish social feed

If you took Pinterest, mashed it unneurotic with everything annoying astir Threads, and sprinkled generative AI prompts connected apical - that'd beauteous overmuch sum up the recently launched Meta AI site's societal feed.

So far, prompting AI chatbots - those are the questions oregon requests you marque - has chiefly been a backstage affair. You propulsion up ChatGPT, Claude, oregon Gemini, benignant successful your prompt, and immoderate it spits retired is for your eyes lone - unless you instrumentality a screenshot and terrorize the satellite by posting your AI experiments online. But not with the Meta AI site. Here, you tin stock your AI results with conscionable 2 clicks.

The effect is simply a fascinating microcosm of the human-AI acquisition and, specifically, however truthful fewer radical cognize what to bash with generative AI. The irony is that Meta VP of merchandise Connor Hayes told The Verge the institution added the full societal facet to amusement AI newbies what they tin usage it for.

Scroll the feed, and you'll find an unusual assortment of Pinterest-like cards. The immense bulk are experiments with representation generation, immoderate are elemental queries, and a fewer diagnostic folks experimenting with AI gotchas (e.g., how galore missive Rs are determination successful the connection strawberry?). Browse for a bit, and yo …

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