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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)
This gave me a funny idea for a new social media app... One that's centered around "you" and filled with thousands/millions of LLM bots praising you, treating you like a celebrity, etc. Each of your posts will get tens of thousands of "likes", hundreds of comments, etc. Dm's straight to your feed, people wanting you, etc etc. If the newsfeed is already mostly "the algorithm", might as well take it to the extreme. I b…
This gave me a funny idea for a new social media app... One that's centered around "you" and filled with thousands/millions of LLM bots praising you, treating you like a celebrity, etc. Each of your posts will get tens of thousands of "likes", hundreds of comments, etc. Dm's straight to your feed, people wanting you, etc etc. If the newsfeed is already mostly "the algorithm", might as well take it to the extreme. I b…
it does seem workable. I've at least heard of companies investigating heaven banning where problem users are put in a bots only space to keep them happy or something..
This gave me a funny idea for a new social media app... One that's centered around "you" and filled with thousands/millions of LLM bots praising you, treating you like a celebrity, etc. Each of your posts will get tens of thousands of "likes", hundreds of comments, etc. Dm's straight to your feed, people wanting you, etc etc. If the newsfeed is already mostly "the algorithm", might as well take it to the extreme. I b…
Wasn't TikTok known for becoming viral by having tons and tons and tons of fake upvotes for everything to make everyone think TikTok was a better place to post content [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]?
Facebook and Instagram had the same "problems", they just addressed it much earlier than TikTok.
I would imagine they have already tested fake likes to maximize how believable the like ratio can be, but who knows - maybe there's opportunity left to be more fake?
[1] https://g.co/gemini/share/3fbe558d4191 (Ask Perplexity, GPT, or Claude the same question - you'll get a similar answer)
[2] https://www.indiehackers.com/post/tiktok-views-are-inflated-...
[3] https://www.vice.com/en/article/get-buy-tiktok-followers-lik....
[4] https://medium.com/dfrlab/suspicious-third-party-apps-moneti...
[5] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1308893/tiktok-accounts-...
This gave me a funny idea for a new social media app... One that's centered around "you" and filled with thousands/millions of LLM bots praising you, treating you like a celebrity, etc. Each of your posts will get tens of thousands of "likes", hundreds of comments, etc. Dm's straight to your feed, people wanting you, etc etc. If the newsfeed is already mostly "the algorithm", might as well take it to the extreme. I b…
This sounds so absolutely absurd that it would probably work.
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Why are you still using it? I dropped FB about 12 years ago, have not looked back since. I ask people this question who still use FB and complain about terrible it is. They answer with some generic "to stay in touch with such and such" which is easier and less invasive to do with SMS or email. So, why are you still using it?
SMS and (to a lesser extend) email are not ways to communicate with distance friends. Someone I went to school with 30 years ago and haven't seen since isn't going to call me about their new grandkid, Facebook works well to share these types of pictures. SMS and email take too much effort, Facebook is much lower friction to share that and thus I find out, while if they uses SMS or email I wouldn't be on the list as t…
If writing an e-mail to a friend is too much effort for you, then you're not a friend. You're an acquaintance, at best.
Low effort means low quality. If all you have to offer is low effort content, what makes you think anyone wants to read it?
Be less lazy.
Instagram just asked if I wanted to chat with a Hawk Tuah AI bot. To me that’s the clearest possible evidence that the product people over there have basically given up. It reminds me of when Facebook went all-in on Live Video in 2016 — a product direction that pretty obviously came from the top.
This gave me a funny idea for a new social media app... One that's centered around "you" and filled with thousands/millions of LLM bots praising you, treating you like a celebrity, etc. Each of your posts will get tens of thousands of "likes", hundreds of comments, etc. Dm's straight to your feed, people wanting you, etc etc. If the newsfeed is already mostly "the algorithm", might as well take it to the extreme. I b…
If something like this does happen I imagine it would target a small segment of the population, as this would be very expensive.
I wonder how these bots will impact their metrics reported to investors. Will they be filtered out or into a different bucket, or just included into the mau and similar.
I don’t understand. Presumably, this will create more engagement for the human users, because there is more content for the humans to interact with. Why would they count an ai model as a monthly active user?
Imagine how pleasant and disinfected content will be there, every company will be happy to pay for ads because there will be no offensive comments and no images of your aunt. All the content perfectly aligned with what people want to see and there somewhere in between ads.
Kids in 10 years or 15 won’t even know that in past people actually could post something on the internet- they will think it was all like TV for us that only rich and handsome people get to post on the internet.
Who wouldn’t buy all those things that happen to be presented by perfect people in perfect world that you don’t have real access to but you can read on internet or have a part of that world by buying some crap they advertise.
It already happens but FB/Meta doesn’t have control over influencers - they can create their own now and deplatform all real ones because they won’t need them. Companies love that as it won’t turn out some influencer that they bought ads with died overdosing drugs somewhere on the street.
This gave me a funny idea for a new social media app... One that's centered around "you" and filled with thousands/millions of LLM bots praising you, treating you like a celebrity, etc. Each of your posts will get tens of thousands of "likes", hundreds of comments, etc. Dm's straight to your feed, people wanting you, etc etc. If the newsfeed is already mostly "the algorithm", might as well take it to the extreme. I b…
I personally find this to be the scariest form of psychological conditioning that I can imagine. It is just pure mind control, with no "social" window dressing.