Meta’s AI app is a nightmarish social feed
If you took Pinterest, mashed it together with everything annoying about Threads, and sprinkled generative AI prompts on top - that'd pretty much sum up the newly launched Meta AI site's social feed.
So far, prompting AI chatbots - those are the questions or requests you make - has primarily been a private affair. You pull up ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini, type in your prompt, and whatever it spits out is for your eyes only - unless you take a screenshot and terrorize the world by posting your AI experiments online. But not with the Meta AI site. Here, you can share your AI results with just two clicks.
The result is a fascinating microcosm of the human-AI experience and, specifically, how so few people know what to do with generative AI. The irony is that Meta VP of product Connor Hayes told The Verge the company added the whole social aspect to show AI newbies what they can use it for.
Scroll the feed, and you'll find an odd assortment of Pinterest-like cards. The vast majority are experiments with image generation, some are simple queries, and a few feature folks experimenting with AI gotchas (e.g., how many letter Rs are there in the word strawberry?). Browse for a bit, and yo …