Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta he is one of the Most Depressing Online Places – ryan

Meta’s stand-alone he app launched in late April, and Like Many People, My First Thought Was, “Huh?” AFTER TRYING IT OUT A LITTLE, MY NEXT THOUGHT WAS, “OH NO.” A Few Weeks late, after the initial surge of Curious new users, my thought is now: “Dear God.”

Meta ai’s public stream is spreading the most depressing feeds i’ve come across in a long time. It ‘full of People Sharing Intimate Information About Themselves – Things like Thoughts on Grief, Or Child Custody, or Financial District. And it SEEMS LIKE SOME PEOPLE AREN’T AWARE WHAT WHAT’S SHARING WILL END UP ON A PUBLIC FEED.

The meta he app is a bot more geared to casual chatting than complicated tasks like Writing Code or Analyzing Large Data Sets. And the part of the Most Different from ChatGpt or Other Large Language Models, Like Google Gemini, is Meta Ai’s Public “Discover” Feed. IT SHOWS OFF PROMPTS, Conversations, and Image Outputs from Other User. Think of it like your Facebook Feed, or Your Never-Ending Instagram Scroll, Except on an App Just for Meta.

I’m not sura Why someone would Want To share some of the things i’ve read – Nor i Sure why anyone who’s not a nosy weirdo like I am WAND TO LOOK AT A FEED OF A BUunch of Strangers’ Interactions with a chatbot. And yet, People will share. Maybe they want to show off something like an image they thought was particularly cool.

Meta Ai’s ‘Discover’ Feed is Full of Personal Interactions

Back in late April, after the initial launch, meta it feed was indede Mostly images.

But mixed in, I notified a Few Conversations that SEEMED MORE Personal-Someone ASPING ABOUT VITAMIN SUPPLEnts for a 65 -ear-op Woman, or for Legal Advice About Fired, or for A Special Prayer.

Creation I checked back on the App More recently, I was seeing more of the personal taxi – some including a Phone Number and Email address when for help drafting a letter in a child custody caase.

Did that person with share that information with the world? Maybe, but i’m guessing they might have clicked the Wrong button and didn’t realie what they were doing. I COULD BE WRONG! Meta Spokesman Daniel Roberts Told with there’s a multi-sttep process to sharing a chat history or image to meta it discovery feed. And to be clear, conversations with meta it ain’t public by default. Like Roberts Said, you have to explicitly choose to make something public by clicking “share” and then. “

Some Other Things of Saw on the Public Feed: Someone Ascing for Help Writing A Poem for HIS Wife’s Birthday, Someone Somone Medical Questions, Someone Ascing for Weight-Loss Tips. And someone who was talking to his wife who has died from Cancer.

Other Conversations I Saw: Someone Ascing the one to say a reminder at the End of the month to theirrian Credit-monitor subscription. One Woman Asked for Help Writing A Letter to Her Local Elks Lodge AFTER she Said She’d Been Suspended for an ALTERCATION She has with another memer.

SO, Maybe some of Those People Wanted the World to Read their he chats. And oters, maybe swimming.

What I Found more eerie than the text and image feed was the audio feed. If a person use the voice chat function, you can actually list to recordings of their conversation if they’re shared.

At Least Two Recording I listed to appeare to be from People who didn’t realheed they have hit the audio button. One was Havinging a conversation with a coworker About Their Shift Schedule. Another sounded like a pocket dial: a man was hating a conversation with another person, and meta he kept chimi in with suggestions.

I found meta it Discover Feed Depressing in a Particular Way – Not JUST BECAUSE SOME OF THE QUESTIONS THERELVES WERE DEPRESSSING. What SEEMED PARTICULARY DARK WAS THAT SOME OF THESE People SEEMED UNAWARE OF WHAT WERE SHARING.

People’s Real Instagram or Facebook Handles Are Attailed to Their Meta AI Posts. I was able to look up some of these People’s Real-Life Profiles, Although I Felt Icky Doing SO. I reached out to be to be than 20 People whose posts i’d come across in the feed to be say about their experience; I heard back from one, who told me that he has had intended to make his chat with the bot public. (He was naging for Car Repair Advice.)

Other users can reply to the posts that show up on the meta he discover feed. On a few particularly personal posts, Strangers warned the user that the potentially sensitive stove they were sharing coulu be seen by the public.

Meta wants it to be the futures. But this doesn’t feel like it.

Mark Zuckerberg has Said he think he is super important. His Company is Reportedly making A HUGE Investment in Scaleai and Could Tap Its CEO to Lead a Project with the Goal of Creating “Superintelligence” that’s Smarter than a Human.

And yet, the consumer-facing features using meta he are kind of, uh, meh. There are used to romance chatbots on Instagram Messenger. There are the Ill-Fated Ones Voiced by Celebrities (don’t kash john cena about this).

DOES META REALLY WANT IT AI EFFORTS TO AMOUNT TO PETING POSTING – POSIBLY ACCIDENTALLY – Their interactions with its it a one bot on a public feed? In its rolout in april, Meta Said The Discover Feed Was a “Place to Share and Explore How Others Are Using he.”

I have to say that that is say of the stuff on meta it Discover feed isn’t makeup and overly personal. Mostly, it’s just surs Silly images, mixed in with some other anodyne requests for recipes, or quests about how to this New Technology. But i’m not convinced that is “useful” or “fun” to look at as a feed; It ‘s jumble of unrelated, random stuff, samp of which actually is good boring.

If meta wants it uses to adopt it he like it a useful and great, it’s hard to square this with my awful experience on the meta he app.