Review: Adventures with Meta AI for Facebook

Seriously, Meta?
The Artificial Intelligence (AI) prompts you've rolled out on my Facebook feed are so ludicrously off-the-mark, it's clear no "intelligent being" conversing with "actual humans" could ever be so daft.
Obviously, your latest machine-learning product is not ready for prime time.
On "Ask Meta on Facebook," you say "Meta AI isn't yet available for everyone." So, I know my Facebook feed is just a training guinea pig for you to develop your AI's capabilities.
Helpfully, you explain how my Facebook feed will assist you in developing and improving your generative AI models. By using machine-learning to devour massive texts from a wide range of sources – including direct prompts – you can train your Large Language Models (LLMS) to respond more and more "intelligently" to queries as it improves its predictions of what words or text bits are most likely to follow in a given human speech sequence.
"Large language models (also called LLMs) are models trained on massive amounts of text to help them predict typical sequences, like those found in our everyday language," you explain. "LLMs learn from the data using a combination of machine learning and guidance given by people who help train the models."
"You can ask Meta AI questions, or you can use Meta AI to learn more about your interests, keep you entertained and be more productive," you say. "You can also ask follow up questions for more information."
Well, I've hardly been more "productive" since I've made a little hobby of collecting so many instances of how clueless your generative AI prompts have been.
And, for the "guidance" of "people who help train the models," I offer this little showcase of just how silly Meta AI on Facebook has been in my feed thus far.
Meta AI Prompts Me to Seek Out Pictures of Keith Richards
When I first started seeing prompts from Meta AI for Facebook accompanying people's posts in my Facebook feed, I was curious about its developing capabilities. So, when it prompted me to explore "photos of Keith Richards," I wondered what its algorithms would do.
But, not only did it fail to produce anything from the simplistic prompt it proposed to me – I mean, as the guitarist for the Rolling Stones, Keith Richards is arguably one of the most photographed people in the world – but, its promptings led me down a ridiculous rabbit hole where I couldn't help but test its performance boundaries, sometimes in a testy manner.
Here's how it all went down:



The conversation went on a bit and it seemed as if Meta AI for Facebook was giving up. So, I asked if it was "throwing in the towel."
So it knows what "throwing in the towel" means, at least. Eventually we got there, but only after I asked it to "imagine" Keith's smokey bagpipe session. I thought it would be funny to see if the algorithm could handle the contradiction of smoking while playing a wind instrument. Turns out, it handled it by leaving out Keith's mouthpiece altogether.
Random Prompts on Random Posts I Never Asked For

Not sure this post about the pleasures of coffee and alone time is meant to illicit one to want to know "more about school."

I think it's safe to say that every Godzilla movie or show is really about the same sort of thing.

The photo has nothing to do with "mechanic life," so why would I go there?

And now I'm being asked about "street outlaws"? Why?

Yes, I'd love to "explore" the big broad "world of broken objects"! There must be so many. That would be a spectacular follow-up to the subject of Humpty Dumpty, who was a "broken object" himself, I suppose...

Obviously, these cartoons have nothing to do with Gary Larson or The Far Side.

Again with the mechanics business?

Not sure how Harley Davidson is something that would naturally come up just now...

Okay, drag racing is an interesting human phenomenon, but what made you bring that up. Are you okay?

Are there any more Elton John puns to actually explore? Is this a whole musical genre now?

I thought we were talking about the Seven Dwarves!

Clearly, Meta AI for Facebook, you're obsessed with drag racing.

The story of Evel Knievel is indeed fascinating, but I'm not sure you spotted the bawdy typo on the sign. Human handlers, you might want to let Meta AI know.

In this case, the car's issues seem pretty easy to diagnose.

Okay, instead of knowing more about this ridiculous dashboard set-up, let's go on a grand historical journey about the history of coffee.

Nothing about Mack Trucks in this picture as far as I can tell...

Yes, perfect. I can forward this and what I'm about to learn from Meta AI for Facebook to the precious new mothers I know. They'll certainly cherish my gesture.

Okay, the sign is silly, but I'm not sure why you had to go there.

Again, with the drag racing!

Is every single cartoon by Gary Larson now?

Okay, I give up. Obviously, you're dying to tell me about drag racing.

Does anyone even ask this? Isn't it all-too-obvious? Instead of a handle, the thing just opens up for you. What more do you need to know?

Why can't you see the joke in the picture? And, how would one even condense such a summary?

Says the guy who obviously hates picnics!

This image, with its famous musicians portrayed in real life and sculpture, has a lot to explore, but the "benefits of being on time" is really not worth looking into if you don't already grasp the concept.

Not sure Topeka Kansas would appreciate this particular tourist angle.
Okay, So I Like the Show 'Seinfeld'

You see, a Seinfeld aficionado is hardly likely to be interested in tangentially exploring "car battery sizes" at this moment, especially because George is indicating the relevant "car battery size" with his hands.

It should go without saying that in the show "Seinfeld," Jerry Seinfeld the comedian is himself always the main character.

In this particular Seinfeld episode, George's mom, Estelle, asks such blinkered questions (kind of like Meta AI for Facebook) to George's fiancée's parents at dinner – including "What is Merlot? I've never heard of it." – that the prompt "What is a rye?" comes across as even more ridiculous than Estelle. Plus, it was a "marble rye."

Isn't "explor[ing] the concept of control" a little broad a topic given the lightheartedness of the post, not to mention "How does the postal system work?" The picture is also of Wayne Knight, the actor who plays Newman, a postal employee, in Seinfeld, and he looks to be in the Oval Office of the White House. Wouldn't it make more sense to explore either Wayne Knight or the Oval Office?

Okay, I won't use Meta AI for Facebook to make any important decisions.
By Christopher Jones
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