Mark Zuckerberg destroyed friendship. Now he wants to replace it with AI.

Mark Zuckerberg destroyed friendship. Now he wants to replace it with AI.

Jeff Chiu/AP Photo; Getty Images; Alyssa Powell/BIForget those 700 Facebook friends you've largely neglected since college. In Mark Zuckerberg's latest vision for the future, we'll be filling our empty hours chatting away with our generative AI buddies. In an era when people spend more time alone than ever before, Meta's CEO is preaching not just about the power of his company to connect us to one another — but also about luring our attention to…

Zuckerberg’s new Meta AI app gets personal in a very creepy way

Last week, Facebook’s co-founder launched the Meta AI app, a dedicated home for his company’s artificial intelligence chatbot.

Meta’s AI social feed is a privacy disaster waiting to happen

Since ChatGPT sparked the generative AI revolution in November 2022, interacting with AI has felt like using a digital confession booth—private, intimate, and shielded from public view (unless you choose to share). That’s about to change dramatically with Meta’s rollout of social features in its stand-alone AI app, released last week. Those quiet queries—“What’s this embarrassing rash?” or “How can I tell my wife I don’t love her anymore?”—could…

At a time when the chatbots of AI were so far limited to private exchanges, Meta breaks the conventions with bold novelty. The company unveils a social flow integrated into its Meta AI application, transforming the solitary experience of interaction with AI into a public showcase where users share their creations and prompts. If the goal is to ... Read more The article The futuristic ecosystem advocated by Marc Zuckerberg via Meta AI shakes the …

Meta has fundamentally revised its AI app.

A.I. Mistakes Are Way Weirder Than Human Mistakes – Pixel Envy

Last week, I published some thoughts on Meta’s eventual repositioning as a kind of television channel stocked with generated material for any given user: Then TikTok came around and did away with two expectations: that you should have to work to figure out what you want to be entertained by, and that your best source of entertainment is your friend group. Meta is taking it a step further: what if the best source of entertainment is generated en…