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Best thing you can do is not use any Meta products. What a shit company
“Proud black queer momma of 2 & truth-teller,”
This sounds like a caricature.
It screams white person lying about their identity to justify some whackadoo comment. "I can say this racist/homophobic thing bc I'm a black queer momma of 2. If you can't handle me, you're bigoted".
... sure they are ...
Wow that’s horrifying. Hilarious and horrifying.
Proud black queer momma of 2
Way to try to force a stereotype there Meta.
Absolutely disgusting whatever the fuck this platform is trying to do with this AI nonsense
This all really feels like a desperate attempt to save their dying social networks, just filling their sites with garbage to make it look like they're not declining
This is getting really fucking creepy. I suppose next they're going to start following and sending private messages because anything is worth it for our precious "engagement".
This is brilliantly dystopian They can create hyper-specific profiles to target specific eyeballs and feed ads from the profile itself. They no longer have to rely on users posting things others would react to. They can just write what they know will generate reactions.
All the ones I’ve seen so far are minorities. This is fucking blackface.
This is some legit dystopian shit right here. I almost wish I hadn’t abandoned these platforms years ago, so that I could take this opportunity to do it. I hope that more people wake up to the insidious nature of this company and these services.
It feels like Zuckerberg is out of ideas and just chases the trends to stay relevant. He was all in on the “metaverse” until he wasn’t because the concept disappeared. Now, he’s all in on AI because everyone else is. Even the quest, before it became the face of the metaverse, was him chasing another big idea from someone else.
He and the company haven’t had original ideas in a very long time. Even the smaller ones, like Stories and Reels, are just ideas copied from someone else.
The Facebook wasn’t even his idea. The Winklevoss Bros came up with it and he was the programmer they got to code it, and subsequently stole it from them.
I still don't understand why they're doing it. They can't possibly think this will be good long-term, can they?
And what's with the article ending on a note of trying to make it sound bad that reviving nuclear power is a negative thing? If that's the result of AI slop, then I'd call it a net positive.
Dead internet theory is becoming true.
Bots talking to bots will be 90% of the internet.
A new odd language will develop that us meatbags won't understand.
On god no cap frfr
I'd suggest they know growth of the platforms is waning, if not going backwards, but if they create a heap of bots and call them "active users" then the share price won't go down. That's the only reason I can think of.
If I had to make business sense of this, it might be a pilot for eventual functions like a "sentiment injection" tool to really sway public opinion. With enough halfway believable accounts, not only does the site look more active, but companies/advertisers could pay Facebook to have the bots shovel opinions and products to users in a more overwhelming and coordinated approach than is currently possible with external bots.
You cannot really pollute these platforms any more than they already are imo. The AI slop perfectly resonates with the rest of the garbage there, so it shouldn't make a difference.
how are advertisers ok with this?
Does it make them money?
If yes, then they’re ok with pretty much anything.
Thank fuck I deleted my Facebook when I did (around the time of the Cambrige Analytica scandal). Never had an Instagram.
For anyone reading, delete them all. Load of shite, you won't miss them.
This type of stuff will get a whole lot worse before it gets better.
The best part is no one is going to leave the platform over this except a small minority of nerds like us. The average person is addicted to social media. Ain't nothing going to drive them away.
Not even all of us. If I left the platform, I would lose all contact with a significant proportion of my not very large family, who are spread across the globe. I don't really have another good option if I want to be able to keep in touch with all of them. Incidentally, that includes my own brother.
I do make sure to curate my experience with every meagre tool they give me to do so, however. That's the best I can do.
Accelerating dead internet.
The idea of random AI floating about to soothe people and give them attention is damn creepy. Ew.
You've heard of the Dead Internet Theory, now get ready for the UNDEAD Internet Theory!
Pretty good article, this stood out for me:
Something about George Romero’s 1978 film about doomed survivors riding out the zombie apocalypse in a shopping mall feels resonant today as I look across Meta’s suite of AI-created profiles. The movie’s blue-skinned corpses don’t know they’re dead. They just wander through the shopping center on autopilot, looking for something new to consume.
That’s how many of our social media spaces feel now. Digital town squares populated by undead posters, zombies spouting lines they learned from an LLM, the digested material from decades of the internet spewed back at the audience. That’s what Meta is selling now.
I’m so fucking glad I never made a facebook account. Even years ago I saw it as an unnecessary annoyance; I can’t believe how bad it’s gotten since.
"The never-born"
