Meta’s new AI application allows you to see the flow of other conversations

It is 10 p.m., and I am in bed on my phone, listening to an audio clip of a woman asking for an AI chatbot for medical advice on her sick company turtle. As a person who likes to hide in the affairs of others, I am in paradise. But how did we get here? Let’s take back.

This week, Meta launched the Meta AI application. The application has two functions: the first is that it replaces “Meta View”, which was the application that went with meta-banal glasses.

The second (which does not require the glasses) is to be a Meta AI ATIOME assistant that you may have already met in Instagram and Facebook Search. Basically, it is a chatbot application that (I suppose?) Allers to compete with Chatgpt.

This part of the application is quite familiar. Meta Ai can answer questions, chat with you and take funny photos for you, like the one I had made of a dog that read Bi:

Here is where it becomes weird.

There is also a public flow of cat cats from other people you can scroll. Most of this flow are people who make stupid images – Dark Vader eating ice cream, this kind of thing. Some of them came from suggested prompts when you open the application for the first time.

To be clear, your AI cats are not Default public – You must choose to share them individually by pressing a sharing button.

But even so, I have the impression that some people don’t really understand what they share or what’s going on.

Like the woman with the sick company turtle. Or another person who asked for advice on the possible legal measures he could take against his former employer after being dismissed. Or a woman asking for the effects of folic acid for a woman in the sixties who has already crossed menopause. Or someone who asks for help with their Blue Cross health insurance bill.

I found all these examples mixed with images of funny cartoons in my public flow. Maybe these people knew they were sharing on a public flow and wanted to do it. Maybe not.

It leaves us an obvious question: what is it for, anyway? Even if you put aside the potential accidental jumper, what is the point of seeing a flow of prompts on people’s AI?

A Meta blog article announcing the AI ​​application has spoken of the social aspect: “And like all our platforms, we have built Meta AI to connect you with people and things that interest you. The Meta IA application includes a discovery flow, a place to share and explore how others use AI. (I asked Meta as commented.)

Is seeing the discussions on the AI ​​of others still interesting? Would it be interesting to see the discussions on the AI ​​of people I know? Yes, for spy reasons. Is it interesting to see them for Randos? Eh.

I barely want to see real photos of people I don’t know unless they are incredibly hot; I bored it fairly quickly when I saw a stranger’s sol.

Does social AI feed the social flow of the future? Even trying to be as open -minded as possible on this subject, I attract myself to see the call. I just don’t understand.