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Meta is killing off its AI-powered Instagram and Facebook profiles

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Re: Meta is killing off its AI-powered Instagram and Facebook profiles

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Post by pavel_lishin »

qntmfred wrote: post #52

I get the hate, but I'd be open to trying out a social media experience that is a mix of human and bots, especially as the bots get better at acting like reasonable humans. Stack Overflow was great when it came out. But the whatever percent of humans who were mean and obnoxious and wouldn't let you just ask your questions eventually ruined it all. Then ChatGPT came out without any humans to get in the way of me askin…

What would it mean to "socialize" someplace where you can never be sure if you're talking to a person or not?

Re: Meta is killing off its AI-powered Instagram and Facebook profiles

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Post by namaria »

rsynnott wrote: post #88

Do they not have anyone sensible left in the room? Like, you’d expect that at some point someone would have said ‘these are comically terrible, we cannot allow them to see the light of day’.

That's the price for Mr Zuckerberg's ownership structure. On the one hand, no one can dispute him. On the other hand, no one can dispute him.

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Post by maxerickson »

naming_the_user wrote: post #5

> Those AI profiles included Liv, whose profile described her as a “proud Black queer momma of 2 & truth-teller” I find this stuff absolutely fascinating, that even an AI bot tries to do this sort of thing. It just strikes me that there is no world in which racism will ever die out as long as things like this are happening. You can't have it both ways. If race is just melanin content then we have no issue. That's the…

It's rather impressive that you can point to assumptions about identity and then conclude that racism comes from people having identity.

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Post by ajsidcjdj »

noirbot wrote: post #56
mustyoshi wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why can't you just be American? Both my parents were born here, they've explained our lineage, but I literally don't care. I'm an American, America is my culture and country.

Because my friend who just worked for years to become an American citizen after immigrating here and working for the US government still has other Americans tell him to "go back to where he came from" because he's evidently not American enough for them. A hell of a lot of people want to "just be American" and a lot of Americans won't let them.

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Re: Meta is killing off its AI-powered Instagram and Facebook profiles

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Post by jjulius »

Trasmatta wrote: post #15
davidw wrote: post #7

The thread is here and... it's pretty wild. This doesn't seem like it was a well-thought out idea to release this without some more consideration beforehand. https://bsky.app/profile/karenattiah.bsky.social/post/3letty...

> They admitted it internally, to me It's becoming an increasingly apparent problem that people don't understand that LLMs frequently hallucinate, especially when asked to introspect about themselves. This was 100% a hallucination.

You and I understand this. Heck, most of us on HN understand this.

When the media and companies with a financial interest in AI have been shouting from the rooftops that "AI is going to replicate humans very soon and all of your jobs will go bye-bye because this thing will do everything better than you", can we really be surprised when the broader populace looks at it that way?

Re: Meta is killing off its AI-powered Instagram and Facebook profiles

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Post by add-sub-mul-div »

xracy wrote: post #80

I feel like the question I want to ask is "Why do we need AI-Profiles?" Like, I can barely be bothered to keep in touch with my friends and family. Why do I need a fake person to be follow on social media? What purpose does it serve? What possibly comes out of this that is positive?

You're right, it's not meant to be a positive outcome for you. It's meant to keep people on Facebook longer so more ad impressions can be delivered. In this case, eventually, conversationally.

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Post by mupuff1234 »

rsynnott wrote: post #88

Do they not have anyone sensible left in the room? Like, you’d expect that at some point someone would have said ‘these are comically terrible, we cannot allow them to see the light of day’.

I can't fathom how anyone thought this was a sensible thing.

It's so bad I have to wonder if there's a different angle here, maybe they think that releasing something so terribly bad will make it easier when they release something less comically bad? Idk.

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asveikau wrote: post #26
Trasmatta wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> They admitted it internally, to me It's becoming an increasingly apparent problem that people don't understand that LLMs frequently hallucinate, especially when asked to introspect about themselves. This was 100% a hallucination.

It's getting weird that people cite ChatGPT to settle debates. Even on places like HN where supposedly people have a technical background and know they shouldn't blindly trust an LLM as a source of truth. Even with the banners it has warning about this.

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