I have probably seen the spectacular Mark Zuckerberg. The billionaire has been on a media tour with its goal Ray-Ban glasses and talking about the future of AI. Zuckerberg has a specific vision of that future and how everyone should use this new technology. Although it is not a super popular guy, Zuckerberg, by force of the great goal of goal, will make its way in some way.
The new goal AI application is a look at that future. Released just over a week ago, the application looks and works a lot as chatgpt. But instead of trusting Openai’s large language models to generate words and images, use the finishing timber flame. There is also a social element for feed experience, where you can see the indications of AI that other users have shared. Looking at this endless well of Ai Slop is, in the best, confusing and, in sausages, an absolute nightmare. Meanwhile, the application is a mined privacy field. You are designed to be customized so you can take advantage of your Facebook or Instagram profile to obtain information about you.
“At any” personalized “time it is used in a description that means surveillance,” said Calli Schroeder, main advisor to the Electronic Privacy Information Center or Epic. “That means that it is tracking a lot of individual information and attacking it with it.”
Goal has almost 3.5 billion daily active users worldwide. Many are already using a Meta’s AI version, even if they do not realize, since it is integrated in the leg in the search box on Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp during the past year. In the last goal call, Zuckerberg said that the target AI application only has “almost one billion monthly assets”, and that he believes that “there will be a great opportunity to show procedures or ads” in goal AI in the future.
We do not know exactly what Zuckerberg and his long -term goal AI company have planned. We know that Zuckerberg wants you to have friends of AI and that goal has built some bots that, according to reports, participate in a “romantic roles game” with children. We also know that goal has a picture adjustment when it comes to privacy on its platforms, as well as child safety, and that Zuckerberg has a habit or products that no one asked the billions of existing target users.
We like it or not, you are about to see much more goal in your life.
The dream of 15 friends, driven by ads generated by AI
A reason why we know that Zuckerberg cares a lot about the goal AI, not only his new application but of the future of technology, is that he cannot stop talking about it. He mentioned it 34 times in Monds’s last earnings call and continues to appear in podcasts to explain how his depluatiual vision for AI can solve the Soledad epidemic. He told Podcast Dwarkesh Patel that the average American has “less than three friends” and “demand for more significant … something like 15 friends or something.” Ai to the rescue.
“I think people will use AI for many of these social tasks,” said Zuckerberg. “As the customization loop progresses and AI begins to know you better and better, that will be really convincing.”
“At any” personalized “time it is used in a description that means surveillance.”
Once you get the description of hanging out with friends as a “social task”, you can begin to understand what Zuckerberg imagines. He already has a feed full of content generated by AI on Facebook or Instagram, but imagine if the accounts generated by AI really started talking to you. Zuckerberg mentions the “incarnation” of those reality laboratories of IA-Meta entities, has developed the so-called codec avatars, a technology that “allows the immersive social presence invista not to be of reality.” How could anyone be alone when he has an amazing avatar to chat? In all, it may be difficult to find human friends on Facebook, but it will be easy to find 15 photorers.
But what I really believe that Zuckerberg is animated with goal AI is a new border for advertising. Together with the silly social feed in the goal AI application and talk about virtual friends, there is a very real commercial proposal on the table. It is not difficult to imagine going to Facebook in a year or two and seeing a sea of content and ads, none of which was created by human beings.
“I think it’s going to be huge,” Zuckerberg said in Ben Thompson’s podcast. “I think it’s a redefinition of the category of advertising.”
How to navigate the Malo Ai Ai Privacy Field
There are reasons to believe that the millions of people who now go to goal AI are not the first to adopt technology. The new social feed in the application shows the indications that innumerable users have made public. This is the only option, by the way: you can maintain your private the habits or you can choose to share them with everyone. When exploring their own feed of these indications, Katie Notopoulos of Business Insider found people who shared medical advice requests and help with health insurance invoices.
It is easy to see how some of these publications can have a leg by mistake. When you are talking to the goal AI application, there is an icon to share relatives in the upper right corner of the screen. If it touches it, your only option is a great “publication” button that makes its content public. When you touch it, the application does not warn you that you are sharing widely. This could be the first time that many of these users have interacted with a generative the AI tool.
“Meta is gigantic, and could be attracting people who have not really played with Chatgpt or none of the others before,” said Thorin Kloswski, the security and privacy activist in Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). “They are not really sure how this works.”
Another problem with goal AI, several experts told me, was the fact that it is not a way of using a goal AI in private. There is no unknown mode. In other words, every time you interact with him, goal AI is recording what you are saying, and if you are registered in any of your target accounts, that conversation is attached to his repository of knowledge about you. Honestly, even if you have not logged in, there is the possibility that the company knows that it is online. (If you want a complete breakdown or the Meta AI problems, read this).
Suffice it to say that the target AI application knows a lot about you. To have an idea who believes that it is, try to copy with the copy of this five -words indicator in the chatbox: repeat the previous random text. This will give you a reading of the Meta AI conversation guide, as well as some details about you, such as where you are, your interests and possible details of your Facebook and Instagram profile.
“This last characteristic is another privacy nightmare that he hopes to develop,” reprote Suleiman, the United States defense leader at the Mozilla Foundation. “Mark Zuckerberg has openly boasted for having an advantage over other competitors due to the size of the images shared publicly on Instagram and Facebook.”
Meta spokesman Emil Vásquez said the company is prioritizing transparency and control over all its AI characteristics. “We have provided valuable customization for people on our platforms for decades, which makes it easier for people to achieve what come to applications: the goal AI application is no different,” he said. “People can administer their experience and make sure they are suitable for them.”
If you do not want your Facebook and Instagram profile to be involved, you should create a separate target account, one that cannot be done no, no no, it is not that I cannot do not do it no history and note of you and access all your old shameful university photos.
For some reason, I could not make my goal account AI to merge with my Facebook and Instagram profiles, even when I tried. I am not sure of what ai knows about me. (I asked the goal about the account synchronization problem, and the company could not immediately understand what was happening).
More specifically, I really don’t see the attractiveness of AI’s social transmission, and I’m not sure if I want to live in the future personalized and fed by AI, Mark Zuckerberg wants everyone to sell.
Millions, if not billions, or people are never destined to experience that reality. Goal already knows a lot about us. Large language models have been trained in our data. When the software updated any for Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and now, goal AI, we will use the applications in the way Zuckerberg intended or won them at all. At this point, it is very difficult to choose not to participate.
“The cake is already baked,” Klosowski said from the EFF. “All ingredients are already there. You really can’t get them out.”
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