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Meta and an Abundance of AI Opportunities, When AI Integrates Into the Feed, AI for UI and One Emailer's Dismay

2024/10/31
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创立并运营订阅式新闻稿《Stratechery》，专注于技术行业的商业和策略分析。
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Ben Thompson: 本文探讨了Meta公司如何利用人工智能技术，特别是生成式AI，来提升其广告业务，并创造新的商业机会。文章指出，Meta拥有庞大的用户基础和数据资源，使其成为最有可能从生成式AI中获益的公司之一。作者详细分析了AI在广告投放、内容生成、用户界面设计等方面的应用，并预测AI将改变Meta的商业模式，使其在未来更具竞争力。他还讨论了AI带来的挑战，例如用户隐私和数据安全问题，以及对现有商业模式的冲击。 Edge Sharp: Edge Sharp主要与Ben Thompson就Meta利用AI改进广告投放、AI生成内容、AI驱动用户界面等方面进行了讨论，并表达了对AI技术发展前景的期待与担忧。他与Ben Thompson就AI技术对广告模式、电商模式、内容创作模式以及用户体验的影响进行了深入探讨，并提出了关于AI技术潜在风险和社会影响的思考。

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The discussion begins with Ben Thompson and Edge Sharp exploring Meta's potential to leverage AI, particularly in advertising. They discuss how Meta's extensive user data and content channels position it well to take advantage of AI advancements.
  • Meta has the best content channels to leverage AI.
  • AI can enhance advertising efficiency and create more compelling ads.
  • Meta's ability to generate AI-based content can increase ad demand and drive prices up.

Shownotes Transcript

Talking through Ben's piece on Meta and Abundance, including the past, present and future of Meta's value proposition to e-commerce advertisers, plans to incorporate AI-generated content into news feeds, and questions about augmented reality and the next phase of user interfaces. At the end: An emailer highlights potential downsides of the vision Meta is selling.

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Meta’s AI Abundance — Stratechery)

Meta sees AI spending accelerating as earnings top forecasts — Financial Times)

Meta’s going to put AI-generated images in your Facebook and Instagram feeds — The Verge)

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