Meta AI rolls out beta Mac app featuring screen sharing and system-wide dictation

Meta has released a new Meta AI application for Mac in beta form, aimed primarily at businesses and content creators. The app integrates with Facebook and Instagram, offering analytics capabilities that allow users to query performance data. It also connects with Google Workspace for document access, though this requires a professional Facebook or Instagram account.

A standout feature is the ability to share a specific window via screen capture during a session, enabling the AI to provide advice based on the user’s current work. The app includes built-in dictation that functions across all applications on the Mac.

Meta is expanding AI tools for business users across its platforms, allowing the assistant to handle recurring tasks and reminders while generating decks, documents, and spreadsheets.

Users should exercise caution when enabling Meta AI features. According to Meta’s privacy policy, interactions with its AI tools are used to train the company’s models. Meta AI remains free to use, with optional Meta One plans available that raise rate limits.
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Meta is to privacy as Chernobyl is to nuclear power. – MacDailyNews, December 19, 2024

As we wrote in May 2018, “If you trust Mark Zuckerberg to be the keeper of your photos, contacts, political views, religious beliefs, etc., you’re batshit insane.”

Instant messages sent by Mark Zuckerberg during Facebook’s early days, reported by Business Insider in May 2010:

Zuckerberg: Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard
Zuckerberg: Just ask
Zuckerberg: I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS
Zuckerberg: People just submitted it.
Zuckerberg: I don’t know why.
Zuckerberg: They “trust me”
Zuckerberg: Dumb fucks

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