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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 jedberg »

shipscode wrote: post #279
jedberg wrote: post #259

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Having worked at a similarly gargantuan and dysfunctional company, I can tell you exactly how this went down. Someone had this idea for AI profiles. They speced the product and took it to engineering. The engineers had a good laugh at how preposterous it is, but then remembered that they get paid a ton of money to do what they're told, and will get promos and bonuses for launching regardless of the outcome. It all st…

The best (worst?) part is when the engineers actively overlooked actual production bugs and security concerns to do this work.

Sadly it's really hard to get a promo fixing bugs or optimizing code.

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

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Post by 1659447091 »

This reminds me of the experiments FB was doing to control user emotion. Vibes of the same sliminess.

But beyond that, has social media not isolated people enough--soon, a large portion of people using it won't even interact with other actual people...

I don't see how a platform meant to "connect" people to others--scratch that, a platform meant to connect people to ad's makes perfect sense.

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Post by barbazoo »

cute_boi wrote: post #218
tomalaci wrote: post #186

You know what AI profiles I want more of? Clueless grandma/grandpa that accepts scammer calls and waste their time. Such as UK's O2 Daisy: https://news.virginmediao2.co.uk/o2-unveils-daisy-the-ai-gra...

Imagine AI calling AI and wasting each others time :D

And wasting resources too. We’ve peaked as a species.

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Post by Groxx »

jedberg wrote: post #291
shipscode wrote: post #279

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The best (worst?) part is when the engineers actively overlooked actual production bugs and security concerns to do this work.

Sadly it's really hard to get a promo fixing bugs or optimizing code.

Ship it quick, ramp up some high profile users that don't actually care much about what you're offering, and jump to the next project before anyone notices the problems.

Works every time.

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Post by TeMPOraL »

cratermoon wrote: post #281
drdrey wrote: post #275

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really wasting each other’s energy

really wasting humanity's energy and the planet's climate

A lot of human activity is exactly this, especially in the realm of marketing, so maybe AI getting trapped in the same nonsense would finally make people understand how stupid and absurd this is.

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Post by barbazoo »

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…

“Socialize” with an AI?

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Post by TeMPOraL »

pkkkzip wrote: post #250
cute_boi wrote: post #218

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Imagine AI calling AI and wasting each others time :D

This is actually a hilarious scenario. Anthropomorphize TTS with Indian accents to entrap the other AI agent into thinking they are a real human. DDOS their o1 API calls by soft jail breaking prompts using complex programming questions disguised as typical Microsoft support issues. CodeBot: Word tables blank sometimes. Hmm. SupportBot: What version? Try a repair. CodeBot: Memory issue maybe? Bad alloc? SupportBot: Ra…

  ScamVictimBot:
    sound = tts("Say again?") // constant, might as well cache
    while(true):
      phone.out(sound)
      _ = phone.waitUntilNextPause()

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Post by BoorishBears »

oceansweep wrote: post #234
bloomingkales wrote: post #164

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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 sou…

I'm going to challenge you to put that first screenshot into ChatGPT/Claude and ask them why it looks like something an intern came up with vs a professional product.

I'm not saying that as a slight or an insult, but right now the screenshot looks like a Gradio space someone would use to prove out the underlying tech of a professional product, not a professional product (unless you literally mean professionals are your target users as opposed to consumers).

I think an LLM would be able to very quickly tell you what most product builders would tell you at this stage.

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Also one of the key enablers of NotebookLM is SoundStorm style parallel generation. Afaik no open source project has reached that milestone, have they?

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

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Post by barbazoo »

theptip wrote: post #192
lm28469 wrote: post #155

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People should try to socialize in real life. The web is 90% rage baits, trolls, people completely brain washed by fringe conspiracy theories and politics IRL these 90% turn into 10%, if you really care about socializing you'll have more meaningful interactions with the grandma living next door than with the queer black queen zuckerbot ™ It's like if people asked supermarkets to hide plastic apples amongst the real on…

What if socializing IRL is something you can practice with pro-social bots? Or, what if depressed people find the pressure of consequences too stressful to “just go outside and make friends”, and so the realistic options are chatbot or not enough socialization? There are obvious nuanced issues and risks here but to distill it down to a one liner like “try to socialize IRL” is myopic.

The solution can’t be that those people have to interact with AI instead of humans. What a shit society that would be.
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