If I want to talk to AI I know where chatgpt.com is. I don't need it shoved in my face when I'm trying interact with people on social media.
Meta is killing off its AI-powered Instagram and Facebook profiles
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#232I don't like that some people, esp at larger companies, think that groups with disadvantages in today's world are cutesy adorable things to play make-believe with.
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I do think its a bit of an over correction on their part, Apple notoriously neglected to make their camera good at taking pictures of darker skin people. I believe this was corrected in ~2022.
Google even ran an ad campaign because Pixel was able to do a much better job with skin tones for darker skin than Apple was.
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#233My friend recently showed me what instagram is currently like as I’ve been off of it for years. It’s honestly so enshittified now! Like he just kept scrolling and there 0 posts from friends - just influencers, brain rot and ads.
Same issue with fb where over time all your friends stop posting after they got busy after highschool. Most I get is a birth announcement or wedding photo on instagram from actual people and that’s not exactly a daily post for anyone.
But at the same time people don’t mind its current state. I don’t mind its current state. When I open instagram I get nonstop reels of people doing backflips on skis. I’ve honed my feed as such by only engaging (well, watching and not scrolling away) with those posts really. It is a much better experience than trying to find ski videos on youtube as I don’t need to hunt for the key clip, editing is pretty tight on instagram, and also no ads or other bullshit you get watching things on youtube.
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It's like people have already forgotten why people used the non-human beings in Westworld. One of the first things we're going to use them for is amusement and having them represent anything sentimental or sensitive is going to make them a target like this. It was irresponsible. There's something essentially wrong with Meta and Google where they can do tech but not products anymore. I'd argue it's because the honest…
I think Google and others are too distracted in collecting enterprise coin at the moment. They have a perfectly good consumer product in NotebookLM, but at the moment it has the quality of something an intern made.
As someone who's built something like it in their free time as a hobby project ( https://github.com/rmusser01/tldw), could I ask what would make it a professional product vs something an intern came up with? Looking for insights I could possibly apply/learn from to implement in my own project.
One of my goals with my project I ended up taking on was to match/exceed NotebookLMs feature set, to ensure that an open source version would be available to people for free, with ownership of their data.
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#235I hope the stock gets destroyed next earnings when people realize they've been spending all this money on AI all to not ship a single meaningful feature nor derive any revenue leveraging it. They did the exact same thing with the whole "Metaverse" thing
Yet, there stock is up over 70-80% last year and I have no idea what they really have to show for it.
Their revenue and net income are up 20% and 70% yoy. Apparently we can still sell more ads than what I thought is possible.
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#236This was probably an okay idea terribly implemented. GenAI creators on social media kind of sense. Neurosama, an AI streamer, is massively popular. Silllytavern which lets people make and chat with characters or tell stories with LLMs feeds Openrouter 20 million messages a day, which is a fraction of it's totally usage. Anecdotally I've have non tech friends learn how to install Git and work an API to get this one wo…
> Neurosama, an AI streamer, is massively popular. This only proves that there's enough people on the planet around that bit of the bell curve to develop an audience.
Aspersions aside, the content’s actually typically pretty involved and has a lot to speak for itself, it’s not low-effort content that one would typically associate with AI.
Laid bare, it’s generally a variety comedy show of a human host and AI riffing off each other, the AI and the chat arguing and counter-roasting each other with human mediation to either double down or steer discussions or roasts in more interesting directions, a platform for guest interviews and collaborations with other streamers, and a showcase of AI bots which were coded up by the stream’s creator to play a surprising variety of games. There’s a lot to like, and you don’t need to be on “that bit of the bell curve” to enjoy a skilled entertainer putting new tools to enjoyable use.
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#238Do 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’m imagining it would have gone like the meme where the dissenting opinion person is thrown out the window. They don’t have any other ideas left, so they have to do stupid stuff like this to appeal to people that call themselves investors.
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Yet, there stock is up over 70-80% last year and I have no idea what they really have to show for it.
Their revenue and net income are up 20% and 70% yoy. Apparently we can still sell more ads than what I thought is possible.
It's not necessarily more ads but rather more effective ads. Meta is among the best ad platforms for targeting. Customers pay a premium for this.
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“I’ve have negative interactions with people online so I’d rather give up and talk to nice robots instead.” We are doomed as a society.
Letting people talk their thought processes through without conflict seems more productive than them prefiltering what they want to say. You can get so conditioned to expect negative feedback that you refuse to follow your curiosity.
You do need to learn how to deal with negative feedback tho.
People should write letters and emails and long form messages if they want to say a whole thing without interruption. My concern with working through an idea with a bot is you end up espousing the bots ideas and not your own -- it is the ultimate ideological homogenization.