The Meta AI app is currently going viral for all the wrong reasons
Meta launched the Meta AI app in late April to take on ChatGPT and other chatbots. Unlike rival apps, Meta AI comes with social features that nobody asked for. But Meta’s desire for Meta AI users to share their chats with others via a social feed isn’t surprising. Social media is how Meta makes its money. All of its apps are social apps. Also, bringing a social element to an AI chatbot experience could always work in Meta’s favor.
However, that’s hardly the case right now. Meta AI has gone viral this week for a huge issue. Rather than discussing a unique Meta AI feature that makes the chatbot a must-have AI product, people are talking about the wildly inappropriate chats that take place on the platform, which some users are sharing online by mistake for others to see.
Sharing AI chats is optional, but it looks like plenty of users don’t realize what they’re doing, or they don’t care. Whatever the case, the Meta AI chats that appeared on social media are deeply disturbing. They show what can go wrong if an AI firm working on frontier AI experiences doesn’t handle user privacy correctly. Meta could do a better job informing users that the "Share" button will move the Meta AI chat to the Discover feed.
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