"Meta on Thursday unveiled Vibes, a feature on the Meta AI app that lets users create AI content. Users can cross-post AI-generated content onto other Meta platforms, including Instagram. Founders took to X to lambast the new feature, calling it "AI slop." They're calling it "AI slop" that no one really asked for. Tech founders and executives are dunking on Meta's new feature, unveiled on Thursday."
""AI was supposed to be about developing intelligence, instead they're spending tens of billions of dollars to make it churn out cat videos so we're more dumbed down by social media," Arnaud Bertrand, investor and cofounder of HouseTrip, wrote on X. "What an insane waste of resources, in all respects." Meta's chief AI officer, Alexandr Wang, has been getting the brunt of the criticisms on X, as tech founders reposted his announcement to roast the new feature."
Meta unveiled Vibes, a new feature on the Meta AI app that enables users to generate AI-created media and cross-post it to Facebook and Instagram. The feature aims to surface creative inspiration and let users experiment with Meta AI's media tools. Tech founders and executives criticized the rollout on X, calling the content 'AI slop' and warning that it could promote mindless, artificially generated material. Investors and product leaders mocked the initiative as a waste of resources. Mark Zuckerberg described Vibes as a preview of new product directions. Critics cautioned that such features could exacerbate social media's dumbing-down effects.
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