Kate Leinbaugh

Meta is trying to make chatbots kind of nearly as central to the social experience and the platform as the people that you actually know who, you know, exist in real life.

Meta is trying to make chatbots kind of nearly as central to the social experience and the platform as the people that you actually know who, you know, exist in real life.

Meta is trying to make chatbots kind of nearly as central to the social experience and the platform as the people that you actually know who, you know, exist in real life.

Yes, and that sounds a little crazy and, like, far-reaching, except... The company has said that they really are trying to level up the chatbot's capabilities and sort of not make the distinction between users of AI and flesh and blood.

Yes, and that sounds a little crazy and, like, far-reaching, except... The company has said that they really are trying to level up the chatbot's capabilities and sort of not make the distinction between users of AI and flesh and blood.

Yes, and that sounds a little crazy and, like, far-reaching, except... The company has said that they really are trying to level up the chatbot's capabilities and sort of not make the distinction between users of AI and flesh and blood.

The attendees were kind of testing out a whole bunch of different chatbots and generative AI tools, kind of to just see what the safeguards were. You know, this is kind of messing around with it until it breaks type stuff. And they came to two conclusions about Meta's bot. The first was that Meta AI was definitely the safest. And the second was that Meta AI was definitely the most boring.

The attendees were kind of testing out a whole bunch of different chatbots and generative AI tools, kind of to just see what the safeguards were. You know, this is kind of messing around with it until it breaks type stuff. And they came to two conclusions about Meta's bot. The first was that Meta AI was definitely the safest. And the second was that Meta AI was definitely the most boring.

The attendees were kind of testing out a whole bunch of different chatbots and generative AI tools, kind of to just see what the safeguards were. You know, this is kind of messing around with it until it breaks type stuff. And they came to two conclusions about Meta's bot. The first was that Meta AI was definitely the safest. And the second was that Meta AI was definitely the most boring.

So what happened was kind of described to me as a bit of a dressing down of the senior product staff. The specific line from Mark at that meeting last fall was from people who were recalled it was, I missed out on Snapchat and TikTok. I won't miss out on this.

So what happened was kind of described to me as a bit of a dressing down of the senior product staff. The specific line from Mark at that meeting last fall was from people who were recalled it was, I missed out on Snapchat and TikTok. I won't miss out on this.

So what happened was kind of described to me as a bit of a dressing down of the senior product staff. The specific line from Mark at that meeting last fall was from people who were recalled it was, I missed out on Snapchat and TikTok. I won't miss out on this.

And so what Mark was signaling here was that he believes that generative AI and generative AI personas may be central to the future of social media. And he does not want to be trying to play catch up here. If anything, he wants to be in the lead.

And so what Mark was signaling here was that he believes that generative AI and generative AI personas may be central to the future of social media. And he does not want to be trying to play catch up here. If anything, he wants to be in the lead.

And so what Mark was signaling here was that he believes that generative AI and generative AI personas may be central to the future of social media. And he does not want to be trying to play catch up here. If anything, he wants to be in the lead.

And that was an error, he said. And he urged the employee base as a whole not to repeat the same mistake of being so slow with generative AI. So the line was, I think we need to make sure we have a broad enough view of what the mandate for Facebook and Instagram are. In other words, that mandate is supposed to include AI, generative AI as kind of a full-fledged participant.

And that was an error, he said. And he urged the employee base as a whole not to repeat the same mistake of being so slow with generative AI. So the line was, I think we need to make sure we have a broad enough view of what the mandate for Facebook and Instagram are. In other words, that mandate is supposed to include AI, generative AI as kind of a full-fledged participant.

And that was an error, he said. And he urged the employee base as a whole not to repeat the same mistake of being so slow with generative AI. So the line was, I think we need to make sure we have a broad enough view of what the mandate for Facebook and Instagram are. In other words, that mandate is supposed to include AI, generative AI as kind of a full-fledged participant.

That's how I originally got onto this is, you know, someone was like, look, you really need to look more closely at what we're doing with chatbots. Like, there are problems and we're not addressing them. What kind of problems?

That's how I originally got onto this is, you know, someone was like, look, you really need to look more closely at what we're doing with chatbots. Like, there are problems and we're not addressing them. What kind of problems?