Priscilla Chan speaks at a panel at SXSW in Austin, Texas, in March 2025. Credit: Rosiestep / CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons (cropped) One of Mark Zuckerberg’s daughters has used AI tools to create a messaging app, a game similar to FarmVille, and a website like GeoCities. However, none of these projects are available on the open internet. “She’s quite limited, because Mom doesn’t let her build things that are open to the internet,” Priscilla Chan told Jeremy Stern for a profile of Mark Zuckerberg published by Colossus this week. “She wanted to build a dating site.” “That was a no,” Priscilla Chan said. According to Jeremy Stern, the profile took almost a year to produce and was based on interviews with thirty-some people, including Zuckerberg and his parents; it states that Chan opened a laptop to show off her daughter’s work. Together with the mood-oriented apps, there are a mermaid novel, a blog known as the Daily Craziness, AI-created motivational theme songs, a podcast, and an audiobook collection which she has narrated herself.
She has also prepared business plans outlining how she would promote and sell the apps. She stated that all the projects had been entirely self-initiated. According to her, the idea of bringing something into the world delights a child. The profile doesn’t specify the daughter’s age or which of the couple’s three children she is.
The way things are arranged is inconsistent with the products that Zuckerberg sells. Last month Meta launched Pocket, an app available in the United States which converts text prompts into interactive creations that users can share, remix, and post to a public feed. The app is based on the idea of sharing work publicly, something that is precisely what Chan’s rule prohibits at home. At the same time, Meta is under continuous pressure regarding the way it handles younger users, particularly because of a series of child safety lawsuits in the United States; in Europe, the Commission is launching its Kids Act on Thursday, and it is anticipated that the age verification measures will be applied to AI chatbots and companions as well as to social media. Mark Zuckerberg has spoken publicly in the past about the family’s use of AI, recounting in 2024 how one of his daughters used it to help her write and illustrate a lengthy story about mermaids. The Colossus profile, which covers his management style, his martial arts training, and Meta’s shift towards AI, has received criticism from publications such as Gizmodo, which contended that it portrays him as he would like to be seen.
But at the moment, the dating site has not yet been built.
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