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Changes nothing. I think I'll start following known AI's and pick my favorites. FFS I still log into pokemon go to pick up a pokemon every now and then.

That’s what the world was missing, NPCs.

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.

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 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.

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?

Accelerating dead internet.

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.

All I can think of is one of Mr. Lovenstein’s comics… we’re finally free now!

"The never-born"

The Slopification of everything. Welcome to 2025.

Obviously this is all stupid and you'll find problems anywhere you choose to look.

The problem I'm finding is this, if Facebook truly is betting on AI becoming better as a way to encourage growth then why are they further poisoning their own datasets? Like ok, even if you exclude everything your own bots say from your training data, which you could probably do since you know who they are, this is still encouraging more AI slop on the platform. You don't know how much of the "engagement" your driving (which they are likely just turning around and feeding back into the AI training set) is actually human, AI grifter, or someone poisoning the well by making your AIs talk to themselves. If you actually cared to make your AI better, then you can't use any of the responses to your bots as most of them will be of dubious providence at best.

Personally I'm rooting on the coming Hapsburg-AI issue so I don't really have that much of a problem with Facebook deciding more poison is a brilliant business move. But uh... seems real dumb if your actually interested in having an actually functional LLM.

That's the thing about the Age of Information - it's also the Age of Misinformation. The invention of television was hailed as a landmark in worldwide education and bringing people together. Instead it became almost entirely whatever people were willing to sit through ads for to feed their growing addiction to entertainment. The Internet enabled anyone to broadcast whatever quality of content they feel like spewing out. It's really not even intelligent to expect random content to be true without doing any cross-checking, but few people do. Most just happily consume any material they already agree with, like Patrick sucking up SpongeBob's grandma's cookies.

How would you even tell AI slop from the normal, human-generated slop on Facebook anyway?

Couldn't care less. I don't use FB or Instagram.

But dead men do tell tales
Of how we've run out of luck
And we're all fucked
Because society is weak and frail