{"id":76825,"date":"2025-05-05T15:53:14","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T15:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/76825\/"},"modified":"2025-05-05T15:53:14","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T15:53:14","slug":"the-meta-ai-sites-feed-proves-no-one-knows-what-to-do-with-ai-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/76825\/","title":{"rendered":"The Meta AI site\u2019s feed proves no one knows what to do with AI yet"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you took Pinterest, mashed it together with everything annoying about Threads, and sprinkled generative AI prompts on top \u2014 that\u2019d pretty much sum up the newly launched Meta AI site\u2019s social feed<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So far, prompting AI chatbots \u2014 those are the questions or requests you make \u2014 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 \u2014 unless you take a screenshot and terrorize the world by posting your AI experiments online. But not with the Meta AI site<\/a>. Here, you can share your AI results with just two clicks.<\/p>\n

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<\/a> the company added the whole social aspect to show AI newbies what they can use it for.<\/p>\n

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This almost makes AI worth it to a certain subset of irony poisoned, terminally online people. Like me. Screenshot: Meta AI<\/p>\n

Scroll the feed, and you\u2019ll 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<\/a>?). Browse for a bit, and you\u2019ll find the feed refresh and resurface the same few posts over and over again \u2014 much like how in the early days of Threads it would just repopulate old content. I\u2019ve seen this user\u2019s posts<\/a> featuring food-themed fashion shows at least a dozen times. Occasionally, you find something that makes you chuckle \u2014 like this image prompt of Gary Vee yelling at an elderly man<\/a> that he\u2019s \u201cstill got time to make it on Meta AI.\u201d <\/p>\n

But taken altogether, the social feed feels more like a poster for all the complaints people have about AI. <\/p>\n

Take this prompt<\/a> asking Meta AI to imagine a room \u2014 any kind of room \u2014 without a clown in it. The final result is a picture of a deranged clown sitting on a living room couch. Or this one for a Jackson Pollack style illustration of cherry blossoms<\/a> that is decidedly nothing reminiscent of Jackson Pollack. Or this conversation<\/a> where a user asks Meta AI to help them figure out a healthy snack that won\u2019t spike glucose. The answer isn\u2019t wrong, but it\u2019s also easily searchable on Google. It\u2019s not something that proves AI searches are inherently better. The same goes for the AI images. <\/p>\n

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The comment section nails it. \u201cNarrator: They put a clown in it.\u201d Screenshot: Meta AI<\/p>\n

For every Gary Vee gem, there are a dozen random AI landscapes that probably sounded cooler in the user\u2019s head. I\u2019ve lost count of how many posts I\u2019ve seen asking Meta AI to make some iteration<\/a> of the papal conclave<\/a>. If you were trying to sell a skeptic on the power of AI, I\u2019m not sure generating an image of a mashed potato mattress<\/a> is a convincing example. After several days of browsing, I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve come away with new ideas of how to prompt AI either.<\/p>\n

The public nature of the feed can feel creepy, too. <\/p>\n

Wading into the feed can sometimes feel like eavesdropping on thoughts you weren\u2019t meant to see or hear. This prompt, for example, feels an awful lot like I\u2019ve wandered into a therapy session where I watch someone convince Meta AI to validate their decision to dabble with Bitcoin<\/a>. <\/p>\n

There\u2019s also this extremely detailed image request<\/a> for a \u201csultry Asian beauty exud[ing] bad girl energy at night\u201d and the thirteen user attempts to get it just right. It makes you wonder how much of the feed was accidentally shared. Probably very little; you have to deliberately hit the share button, which triggers a large window alerting you that you\u2019re about to post everything publicly. You then have to actually click a separate \u2018Post\u2019 button. Which, given some of these posts, it also feels weird that people want me to see this. <\/p>\n

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I don\u2019t think this is the sort of prompt a person would normally make public, but it\u2019s actually hard to accidentally share on Meta AI\u2019s site. Screenshot: Meta AI<\/p>\n

That you can comment on people\u2019s results adds another interesting dynamic. Most comments I\u2019ve seen are nice. Some are funny. But again, so far, chatting with AI has largely been a private affair. Would you prompt differently if you knew that other people would eventually see? I probably would. <\/p>\n

Meta is just the first to add a social feed to its chatbot. OpenAI is reportedly working on its own version<\/a> for ChatGPT. And Elon Musk\u2019s Grok chatbot is now available to all X users<\/a>, whether you like it or not. You can see the logic to it. Creating something shareable inevitably leads to viral trends that, may in turn, encourage people to see what AI is all about. <\/p>\n

The trick is giving the average person \u2014 not first adopters, not tech evangelists \u2014 enough reason to stick around. I\u2019m a naturally curious person who has fun poking at AI chatbots. Sifting through the Meta AI feed, I can find plenty of things to gawp at or pique my interest. <\/p>\n

My mother-in-law? I\u2019m not convinced a steady stream of surreal living <\/a>rooms <\/a>made of <\/a>candy<\/a> is what\u2019ll finally convince her to give AI a go.<\/p>\n

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