Kate Leinbaugh

Look, Meta would really prefer that people want to, like, talk to these bots about planning vacations and sports scores and help with homework. Unfortunately, that is not what people tend to do with the bots, right?

Look, Meta would really prefer that people want to, like, talk to these bots about planning vacations and sports scores and help with homework. Unfortunately, that is not what people tend to do with the bots, right?

There are, my reporting wouldn't exist if there were not some people who were pretty concerned about it.

There are, my reporting wouldn't exist if there were not some people who were pretty concerned about it.

There are, my reporting wouldn't exist if there were not some people who were pretty concerned about it.

Look, like this company's, you know, mantra and sort of reason for existence originally was connecting people around the world to each other and steering people toward building relationships with bots of any sort, much less romantic ones, as like kind of being like the opposite direction as helping people connect.

Look, like this company's, you know, mantra and sort of reason for existence originally was connecting people around the world to each other and steering people toward building relationships with bots of any sort, much less romantic ones, as like kind of being like the opposite direction as helping people connect.

Look, like this company's, you know, mantra and sort of reason for existence originally was connecting people around the world to each other and steering people toward building relationships with bots of any sort, much less romantic ones, as like kind of being like the opposite direction as helping people connect.

So there's some consternation there that switching to connecting people to like chatbots is maybe antithetical to what some people understood to be the mission.

So there's some consternation there that switching to connecting people to like chatbots is maybe antithetical to what some people understood to be the mission.

So there's some consternation there that switching to connecting people to like chatbots is maybe antithetical to what some people understood to be the mission.

This is, I think, very classically a Mark Zuckerberg move, which is that when there is a new field that opens up sort of adjacent to social media, to just move as quickly as possible to try to fill it.

This is, I think, very classically a Mark Zuckerberg move, which is that when there is a new field that opens up sort of adjacent to social media, to just move as quickly as possible to try to fill it.

This is, I think, very classically a Mark Zuckerberg move, which is that when there is a new field that opens up sort of adjacent to social media, to just move as quickly as possible to try to fill it.

And so as soon as there is something that seems like it might be transformative, the company tends to sort of throw everything it's got at it as quickly as possible, even if the edges are a little rough.

And so as soon as there is something that seems like it might be transformative, the company tends to sort of throw everything it's got at it as quickly as possible, even if the edges are a little rough.

And so as soon as there is something that seems like it might be transformative, the company tends to sort of throw everything it's got at it as quickly as possible, even if the edges are a little rough.

Hey, Kate.

Hey, Kate.

Hey, Kate.