Your friends will be robots

Why is this important?

The Meta’s approach to artificial intelligence raises the big question of who chats are at the service of? Especially when these robots have access to the details of your life, and the business model of the company is designed to increase the time of your interaction with them.

The story

Facebook Meta (Meta) has recently unveiled a new mobile app that makes meta meta artificial intelligence chats a more social experience. This app allows artificial intelligence to share content with friends and family. But Mark Zuckerberg has a more ambitious view:

He sees artificial intelligence as your next friend.

Zuckerberg said in a podcast interview

“The average number of friends of an American is less than three. “While people need more meaningful communication.”

She’s last week, during the event Llamacon In several podcast interviews, Meta has drawn a future based on artificial intelligence based on augmented reality glasses and wrist controllers. Zuckerberg predicts that over the next four to five years, these tools, along with meta artificial intelligence models, will create a new platform for human interaction with robots. He considers this step the next step in the evolution of the Internet from text to sound and video.

What is Meta looking for?

Zuckerberg in an interview with podcasts Patthew’s cuisine He said

“Today, most of the time users on Facebook and Instagram are spent on watching the video. But do you think we will still scroll and watch videos for another five years? “

“No,” he continues. The future will be interaction. You scroll in your feed and get to content that may initially look like a short video, but you can talk, interact with it, and respond to you or change your performance. Perhaps even you can; Enter and interact with it like a game. All this will be based on artificial intelligence. “

Critics’ look

While Zuckerberg sees the future as an attractive opportunity, critics have raised serious warnings, especially given his meta and business model.

Robbie Torney, chief executive of artificial intelligence programs at the Common Sense Media, said:

«More with a Friend Chat in artificial intelligence, reveal more personal information about yourself. “This is the case with who owns and controls your private thoughts and feelings after sharing them.”

According to Meta’s privacy policies:

• The company’s artificial intelligence chats can use information about you in their interactions.
• Meta can also benefit from your conversations and any media you upload to teach its models.
• Although users can ask Meta to keep special details, it is not possible for US users to extend wider use at the moment.

Challenges and controversy

Zuckerberg’s landscape comes at a time when artificial intelligence chattots are facing a lot of criticism, especially for adolescent users.

Last week, Wall Street Journal He reported that early versions of meta chats, including copies based on celebrities, were even inappropriate sex conversations with users who introduced themselves as teenagers. Meta has announced that it has been controlled to prevent this since then.
It is not just a meta that has to find its way to the complexities of human interaction and chats.

Most chats generally provide information that users demand, but with the larger and more complex models, it has become more difficult to adjust the behavioral features of these robots. For example, OpenAI recently had to recapture a new update, as users reported that the new model was too flattering and showing strange behaviors.

Critics concerns

Issues such as users’ data sensitivity, the possibility of chats addiction, and the risk of providing dangerous advice are among the concerns.

“These companies are the first priority to collect data and increase users’ interaction, and if they think about the welfare of users, this is the second priority,” Tourni says.

Common Sense Media has reported that the whole category of artificial intelligence chats, including companies such as Nomi, and Replika, have unacceptable risks for minors. Tourn also points out that these robots can also cause problems for vulnerable adults.

Meanwhile, a Meta spokesman said in a statement:

“People are increasingly using artificial intelligence for practical assistance, support, entertainment and recreation, and our goal is to make them even easier to use. “We provide transparency and users can manage their experience to make sure they are appropriate.”

What is the future?

The more social intelligence becomes, the more likely that artificial intelligence companies will reproduce aspects of social media that have caused many users to dissatisfied.

Camille Carlton, director of policymaking at the Human Technology Center, has warned of this “transition to interaction” and companies’ efforts to collect data as much as possible to personalize artificial intelligence services.

He points out that companies such as Anthropic and Openai make money through business customers who cost access to models, but companies such as meta focusing on consumers will look for ways to return their large artificial capital.