Facebook has become a cesspool of clickbaits. Less that 1/3 of my feed is people I know (most of which quitted posting anything years ago) or groups I subscribed to - the rest is literally spam, as in meat that's been ground finely and repackaged in a thousands ways. The result is a general sense of nausea.
Facebook Is Being Overrun with Stolen, AI-Gen Images That People Think Are Real
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#12The financial incentives encourage this. All FB cares about is the monthly and daily active users don't dip, and they get more ad impressions. They don't care if the content is fake, so long as it gets eyeballs on the page or in the app.
Similarly T-Mobile doesn't give a shit if I send my friends and family text messages full of lies
T-Mobile gets a flat fee regardless whether it's a lie or not.
Facebook gets more money the more eyeballs their algorithms decide to show the lie to.
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#13The financial incentives encourage this. All FB cares about is the monthly and daily active users don't dip, and they get more ad impressions. They don't care if the content is fake, so long as it gets eyeballs on the page or in the app.
Similarly T-Mobile doesn't give a shit if I send my friends and family text messages full of lies
T-Mobile also doesn’t send your texts to millions of people based on the engagement they generate.
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#14While this may be a particularly dangerous way of thinking[1], it might be good that everything on the internet is becoming obviously fake, AI-generated junk. So that peoples attitude toward things that are real or borderline but are manipulated by bad actors, whatever their motivations may be, also lose some of their influence over the public. And (hopefully) the public becomes more skeptical about everything on the…
Sure, but the flip-side is that the truth becomes harder to ferret out as well.
Maybe it's time to stop caring so much about things on the internet and focus on the truth that is in front of you, the real things.
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#15I wonder if we will get to a point where the web is so saturated with this junk that the web itself starts to lose its luster.
If AI can dream up a million impressive wood carvings, it seems like the real carving I saw in person is the only one that is actually interesting.
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#16If shitty AI content brings about the end of spammy social media as we currently know it, I'm all for it
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#17The comments are probably generated too so it balances out!
Youtube shorts are also ruined with tons of "facts" videos that are just generated images and some hilariously bad text to speech readings of wikis.
Often though they don't even use any tertiary sources like wikipedia and get some facts very wrong.
edit: They also usually have some AI-generated image with some of histories worst dictators made to look nice and some animated particle or lightning effects.
edit 2: The genie is out of the lamp now. I think the only way to inoculate people against this is to give everyone these capabilities. When people see how easy this it will hopefully make them more discriminating when they see other images.
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#18I wonder if this problem could be addressed with immutable timestamps and a vector database with image embeddings.
Eg, someone builds a system that constructs a graph that points images back to the previous references, based on their distances.
The one with the earliest timestamp is considered the original.
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#19Facebook has become a cesspool of clickbaits. Less that 1/3 of my feed is people I know (most of which quitted posting anything years ago) or groups I subscribed to - the rest is literally spam, as in meat that's been ground finely and repackaged in a thousands ways. The result is a general sense of nausea.
This. And I keep staring at it, under the excuse of a faint hope that it might perhaps build partial immunity to attention dump feeds that aren't yet quite as terrible (and therefore more dangerous)