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

Post by bloomingkales » Sun, Jan 05, 2025, 11:19 AM UTC

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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 yo…

Post by z3c0 » Sun, Jan 05, 2025, 12:40 PM UTC

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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 s…

Wow, that sounds very interesting, do you have some link to that paper?

Post by baxtr » Sun, Jan 05, 2025, 12:58 PM UTC

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I wonder why so few companies employ Pixar’s Brain Trust method. You get into a room with a bunch of key execs who are not part of your project and then they tear your product/movie/idea apart. You don’t have to implement any of their suggestions but since these are seasoned execs they see flaws readily. The key is that the process encourages candid feedback without hierarchy or defensiveness. This goes on for a coup…

Requires really secure upper management (think Steve Jobs, or John Lasseter). Those types of folks are not representative of most tech C-Suite denizens.

Post by nradov » Sun, Jan 05, 2025, 1:14 PM UTC

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Well, docs have seen this coming from miles away. I don't think anyone having substantial experience in clinical medicine is surprised by those developments, unfortunately. But it doesn't stop here. Insurance companies will be (are) building models to overcome legal barriers. Imagine: you're 20 and healthy, but located somewhere suggesting a higher risk of developing some chronic disease in the future ? Then no insur…

That's one reason (among many) the preexisting condition part of ACA is so important. Without it, health insurance companies would have every incentive to do what car insurance companies do -- buy profiles and records from third parties and use those to adjust rates and willingness to insure. E.g. the obvious step of buying genetic information from 23andme, because it isn't covered by HIPAA

Post by Tier3r » Sun, Jan 05, 2025, 2:24 PM UTC

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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.