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Deactivating Facebook for just a few weeks reduces belief in fake news

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Re: Deactivating Facebook for just a few weeks reduces belief in fake news

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> A HUGE amount of the "Recommended" posts I see are obvious AI images. As in AI artwork, or AI-generated images that purport to be real?

Look at this absolute nightmare to see what’s going on with AI and Facebook. https://twitter.com/AnAngryOpossum/status/178973278033248283...

I quite like the giant Crocs outdoor pools.

Re: Deactivating Facebook for just a few weeks reduces belief in fake news

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"relatives don't share pictures of our kids' faces" - serious question: why ? I have seen that from friends too, and I respect it - but I don't understand what bad outcome that prevents.

Because they are children who can’t and haven’t consented to have their likeness posted all over social media, to be used as training data on an ever growing corpus of privacy destroying tech. Additionally, pedophiles and creeps do actually exist. I love that I get this question all the time, when from where I sit, the question should be to all the other parents: "Why do you insist on posting your children and their…

As someone who's entire life from infancy to adulthood has been published and catalogued on Facebook by my parents, I think your children will certainly appreciate what you've done one day.

It's something you can't ever get back once its out there, and we all know Facebook is perfectly happy selling out user's pictures as training data for AI companies.

Re: Deactivating Facebook for just a few weeks reduces belief in fake news

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I feel like ticktok is more damaging for just how your brain is wired more than anything. People are walking into bathrooms and using the urinals one handed without putting the phone down the entire time. I can’t imagine spending every free second of your life engaging with short form media is going to help your ability to deeply think about things.

You don’t need TikTok to promote that kind of behavior. I know people who do that and have never touched TikTok in their lives. Meanwhile Facebook was used as a tool in a real life insurrection that got people killed.

That argument could similarly be made for the countless "trends" that have harmed TikTok users and those around them, or really any other social media platform.

I dont see how Facebook is unique in this regard.

Re: Deactivating Facebook for just a few weeks reduces belief in fake news

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I was (probably overly) optimistic there for a few years thinking some new internet type project would come along that would restore some of the balance in the direction of the average person, but it doesn't seem to be happening. I mean, fingers crossed and all that, but it doesn't seem to be here. The other thing that could feasibly happen would be a bit of a mass exodus away from these things. There seems to be gli…

All going according to plan.

Re: Deactivating Facebook for just a few weeks reduces belief in fake news

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I removed the Facebook and Twitter/X apps from my phone, so I don't get notifications. I still log into the websites occasionally, but I never get prompted by my phone, which I think is the real hook.

Its not psosible to overstate how truly awful the notifications from these social media apps are.

I get flooded with notifications from Snapchat about worthless brainrot garbage every day.

It's upwards of thirty notifications each day for an app I have literally one single group chat convo on and everyone in this chat is also on other platforms (AKA Discord).

If only these people weren't so insistent on using this PoS chat app from a failing company desperatly trying to retain its userbase shoving AI and TikTok clone features into it.

Was IRC really that bad?

Re: Deactivating Facebook for just a few weeks reduces belief in fake news

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> A HUGE amount of the "Recommended" posts I see are obvious AI images. As in AI artwork, or AI-generated images that purport to be real?

Looks like I just found my daily hill to die on. If AI is involved the term "artwork" isn't really applicable.

No true Scotsman would die on that hill.
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