@nikitabier: How important is AI to Meta? Here’s one easy tell: One of the launch features of the Muse app was auto-negotiating for …
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The tweet highlights Meta's prioritization of AI by featuring auto-negotiation in the Muse app, even though it may negatively affect Facebook Marketplace.
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How important is AI to Meta? Here’s one easy tell:
One of the launch features of the Muse app was auto-negotiating for stuff on Facebook Marketplace.
The poor product manager who owns Marketplace knows that millions of bots lowballing sellers will eventually kill the product.
But this was escalated to Zuck by the Muse team and he said: “OK, we’ll poison Marketplace…but just a little.”
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