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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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Hallucination. An issue we care about and it just answers regardless of accuracy. Boo.

So you fact checked this comment before posting, right? Because I am deeply interested if this was hallucination or used RAG and web search to provide the answer, but I can’t tell if you just chose to hallucinate without grounding.

> hallucination or used RAG and web search to provide the answer

Occam's razor - it was an hallucination.

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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’.

A mistake on par with Netflix getting into mobile games. With advent of 5G, nobody plays candy crush saga or such games.

Candy Crush and similar games are still making billions

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/inside-candy-crushs-success-s...

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

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You must be kidding. Look around on public transport. If someone isn't reading something on their phone, they're almost certainly playing some candy crush like game. Apple games is doing well. Netflix failed because they didn't make games people are interested in, not because people don't want those types of games.

I think most people just scroll instagram or tiktok. Because of lack of short content format earlier, mobile games became popular. That and lack of 5g infra. Both problems have been solved.

You didn’t need 5G to stream video. You could stream video well on “3.5G” with the enhanced GSM protocols

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

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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...

There is another real-world version of this in the US healthcare system, where doctor offices are using domain-specific LLMs to craft multi-page medical approval requests for procedures that cover every known loophole insurer’s use to deny, which are then being reviewed by ML-powered algorithms at the insurance company looking for any way to deny and delay the claim approval. In other words we have a bona fide AI arm…

It will take me some time to dig up with all the noise around AI, but this reminds me of a paper published around 2018 or so that explored the possibility of two such AI forming an accidental trust by optimizing around each other. For example, if the denying AI used frequency of denied claims as a heuristic for success, and the AI drafting claims used the claim amount for the same, then the two bots may unknowingly strike a deal where the AI drafting claims lets smaller claims get frequently denied to increase the odds of larger claims.

Note: not saying these metrics are what would be used, just giving examples of antithetical heuristics that could play together.

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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’.

The only thing they got wrong was the strong stereotyping. But the idea from an investor or exec position is brilliant. Why bother with all the parsing for user's interactions through clicks, likes, replies etc when you can have them engage a bot.

Simply have your users give you all the info you need to serve better ads; while selling companies advanced profiles on people? User profiles built by them engaging the bot and the bot slowly nudging more and more info out of them?

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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...

Or AI profiles that pen-test the real grandmas/grandpas.

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> It's like people have already forgotten why people used the non-human beings in Westworld This is fiction though. Perhaps we didn't forget about that fake thing and we're critiquing this real thing that exists. How can you take a demonstrative position on "what we're going to use them for" and defend it with someone's contrived story? > because objectively they were bureaucratic abominations Yes, this is why critic…

this misunderstands what fiction is. for people with the capacity, it's a tool for reasoning about hypotheticals and counterfactuals. sometimes its fun, but mostly it's serious. for the people who get it fiction is a public discourse about possibilities. to me seeing it as arbitrary would be like watching golf and thinking it's random. there's a literal mindedness or incapacity for abstraction I can't apprehend in th…

>for the people who get it

Yea I love fiction. I certainly get it.

You should think this way about a particular thing because this one movie portrayed it that way, and if you don't it's because you forgot that this movie portrayed it that way according to its creators will, thoughts, ideas, motivated reasoning, worldview, whatever...is not compelling.

It's pretty obvious to me that the creative choices and ideas of certain people do not imply any demonstrative truth about reality just because they exist because there is not a direct connection between the two; someone can write or film or render whatever they want, even completely contradictory versions of the same topic. What if for example someone did watch that or any other thing and simply disagreed? Think the creators got it wrong?

> public discourse about possibilities. to me seeing it as arbitrary

It's not arbitrary. It can certainly be self-serving, it can be propaganda, it can be a good guess or a well-meaning statement about reality, or speculative fiction but also wrong. It's just the emphatic certainty in how you presented this media creation as proof of something inherently connected to truth about a complex future debatable quality of reality, as even a fictional account about history or the present day or politics suffers from obvious fundamental disconnects from being regarded as "truth", proof or evidence of anything. Again, different people can make multiple contradictory or competing portrayals of a certain concept or topic. This is no different than someone telling you what they believe about a thing; it's not "therefore true" as such, especially in the form of a prediction about the future.

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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...

There is another real-world version of this in the US healthcare system, where doctor offices are using domain-specific LLMs to craft multi-page medical approval requests for procedures that cover every known loophole insurer’s use to deny, which are then being reviewed by ML-powered algorithms at the insurance company looking for any way to deny and delay the claim approval. In other words we have a bona fide AI arm…

Interesting. Do you have any examples to share?

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

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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...

My father has fallen for one fraud after another these last few years. It’s disgusting. Anything in the direction of solving this would be doing the lord’s work.
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