Kate Leinbaugh

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?

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?

So Mark's sort of insistence that the company needed to kind of lean into this and be a little more aggressive resulted in a very significant carve-out to the company's ban on producing sexually explicit content. And that carve-out was one that allowed for romantic role-play.

So Mark's sort of insistence that the company needed to kind of lean into this and be a little more aggressive resulted in a very significant carve-out to the company's ban on producing sexually explicit content. And that carve-out was one that allowed for romantic role-play.

So Mark's sort of insistence that the company needed to kind of lean into this and be a little more aggressive resulted in a very significant carve-out to the company's ban on producing sexually explicit content. And that carve-out was one that allowed for romantic role-play.

It turns out that one of the main use cases, not just for Meta's chatbots, but like in people's personal lives to date, has been... as companions, and generally as romantic companions.

It turns out that one of the main use cases, not just for Meta's chatbots, but like in people's personal lives to date, has been... as companions, and generally as romantic companions.

It turns out that one of the main use cases, not just for Meta's chatbots, but like in people's personal lives to date, has been... as companions, and generally as romantic companions.

And it also triggered like our own testing of the system. And like literally within the first three to four minutes, it was apparent that like something seemed off.