Meta’s AI app is a nightmarish social feed

is a senior reporter focusing on wearables, health tech, and more with 13 years of experience. Before coming to The Verge, she worked for Gizmodo and PC Magazine. 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 w ... Read full article.