Hey here's a novel idea
Have social media websites be reverse chronological posts by friends/pages you follow instead of what AI thinks you're interested in (and yet somehow not explicitly following, yet you get it in your feed anyway)
Meta Wants More AI Bots on Facebook and Instagram
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#12There are probably AI Instagrammers already. Their lives are better than yours.
There are already AI crypto influencers.
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#13I think we actually need more bots discussing politics online. Specifically, we need echo chambers to be replaced by cacophony chambers. The only way to salvage democracy is to bring it back offline. Online, it was undermined by troll farms pulling the strings in favor of certain shady factions. It's time for the good guys to get their hands dirty and break the spell. Trolls cannot be silenced, but they can be offset…
> Specifically, we need echo chambers to be replaced by cacophony chambers.
That's the objective of modern Russian propaganda. The goal is not to be believed. It is to create confusion and reap inaction.
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#14I think this whole thing can mostly be explained by the job titles. What do you expect the "Vice-president of product for generative AI at Meta" to be pushing for?
This is happening across hundreds (thousands?) of companies right now. They've decided they need a generative AI strategy, there's very little existing precedent for what works and what doesn't so they're hurling things at the wall and seeing what sticks.
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#15I think we actually need more bots discussing politics online. Specifically, we need echo chambers to be replaced by cacophony chambers. The only way to salvage democracy is to bring it back offline. Online, it was undermined by troll farms pulling the strings in favor of certain shady factions. It's time for the good guys to get their hands dirty and break the spell. Trolls cannot be silenced, but they can be offset…
> Specifically, we need echo chambers to be replaced by cacophony chambers. That's the objective of modern Russian propaganda. The goal is not to be believed. It is to create confusion and reap inaction.
Yes, but they do so selectively for what's against their interest. The net, filtered result is what's in their interest.
That leaves "mutual assured dialogue destruction" as the only option, IMO.
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#16Back in April Meta were experimenting with bots that replied to forum posts that hadn't had any traction yet: https://x.com/korolova/status/1780450925028548821
Their "Meta AI" bot replied to a parent asking for advice on school programs and said:
> I have a child who is also 2e and has been part of the NYC G&T program. We've had a positive experience with the citywide program, specifically with the program at The Anderson School.
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Specifically, we need echo chambers to be replaced by cacophony chambers. That's the objective of modern Russian propaganda. The goal is not to be believed. It is to create confusion and reap inaction.
Yes, but they do so selectively for what's against their interest. The net, filtered result is what's in their interest. That leaves "mutual assured dialogue destruction" as the only option, IMO.
> Yes, but they do so selectively for what's against their interest.
Generating division is sufficient. There were Russian attempts to hack both campaigns in the last US election.[1]
[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/us-sancti...
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#18Hey here's a novel idea Have social media websites be reverse chronological posts by friends/pages you follow instead of what AI thinks you're interested in (and yet somehow not explicitly following, yet you get it in your feed anyway)
it'll never work. what's next? federation? insanity. impossibility.
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Specifically, we need echo chambers to be replaced by cacophony chambers. That's the objective of modern Russian propaganda. The goal is not to be believed. It is to create confusion and reap inaction.
Yes, but they do so selectively for what's against their interest. The net, filtered result is what's in their interest. That leaves "mutual assured dialogue destruction" as the only option, IMO.
> Yes, but they do so selectively for what's against their interest. The net, filtered result is what's in their interest.
Not really. You can go and see the ads Russia placed on Facebook in the 2016 election. They had pro-life and pro-choice ads. They had pro-LGBTQ and anti-LGBTQ ads. They had pro-guns and anti-guns ads.
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#20Hey here's a novel idea Have social media websites be reverse chronological posts by friends/pages you follow instead of what AI thinks you're interested in (and yet somehow not explicitly following, yet you get it in your feed anyway)
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