Meta has put Meta AI front and center in the search bars for Facebook and Instagram that have served as key tools to find content from particular friends or creators. This is what the All-in-Podcast guys called scorched Earth for AI. This means almost no one will pay the $20 per month or other subscriptions for Ai. This will hurt OpenAI and all of the Venture backed AI startups. It will also weaken Google search. It is estimated that 10% of search usage will be taken from Google search for Facebook and Instagram AI queries.
X has integrated Grok.
Apple and smartphone makers will likely include their own AI query tools and try to divert usage from Google Search.
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Why would anyone use Google search? You can’t find anything there. It’s all sponsored for pages and pages and you’re lucky if they ever serve up any relevant pages to what you want. I find it useless. And what is so sad, is it used to be SO GOOD. I could add a few keywords and narrow down an exact page out of billions. I really miss their former search, it was wonderful.
Amazon is getting just as bad or already is. You try to buy anything, and you get pages of stuff completely divorced from what you are looking for. Pages of them.
I keep hearing how AI is going to make finding things so easy, but in fact all searching is getting worse and worse.
So what’s the revenue generating product for Meta? Is this Waymo 2.0?
A self hosted LLM is the natural end game and so far is a better deal.
I have been comparing Claude and Llama a bit recently for scientific/engineering work.
I would say Claude is much nicer to work with and is more helpful. Llama seems to forget stuff you agreed upon earlier in the conversation. Llama also uses a type of language less suited for engineering topics.
Interestingly, they both make some of the same mistakes. When reminded, they apologize and change opinion when proven wrong. I have been trying to ask them why they didn’t provide the correct answer from the beginning when they had it in the model and it looks like they didn’t think deeply enough, needed a slightly different context or just a hint that there was an alternative solution.
It’s easy to fool yourself and forget that these are just static and deterministic models that answers without common sense. In that sense, I would probably prefer that they didn’t communicate in plain language to emulate a human.
This is what happens when social media and tech companies use their customers’ labor for free. Free input by users leads to their demand for free stuff from social media and tech companies. If users had been making money from using these products, they would be more willing to pay for features that could enhance their ability to increase their income. They don’t and they aren’t.
Karma’s a bit*h.
I think that people will still pay for advanced versions of other models that do things that Meta’s AI model isn’t designed to offer. It might also come down to trust and who trusts what company; that could also be an incentive to pay for a product.
Yes. Meta AI will be great on answering questions about cats, weddings and the dread of hitting 30. It won’t be much use on actual useful AI stuff like stacking crates in a warehouse, or cleaning a bathroom.
Agreed. Not seeing the product here. Is it just a lure to keep people checking Instagram so they can be monetized?
Meta has the most AI compute and for the life of me I do not see a path to getting a ROI unless it is somehow licensing Llama to other people which is a horrible idea.