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Re: Meta Wants More AI Bots on Facebook and Instagram

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Post by smallmancontrov »

EcommerceFlow wrote: post #93

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…

Sigh. This is going to be a thing, isn't it?

On second thought, social media monetizes negativity and this does the opposite. Fight fire with fire?

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Post by sheperd »

EcommerceFlow wrote: post #93

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…

Already exists, social AI. Meta hired the owner to implement this feature. Doesn't hurt to create a competitor if you're interested though!

Re: Meta Wants More AI Bots on Facebook and Instagram

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Post by Kiro »

reaperducer wrote: post #96
Kiro wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How is SMS easier? I can't easily access it on the desktop or the browser. Group SMS chats seem to be non-standard if possible (never seen anyone use it). Sharing things such as photos and videos through SMS is still a broken mess.

How is SMS easier? I can't easily access it on the desktop or the browser. As someone in the Apple ecosystem, I find SMS much easier when using it from Apple's desktop Messages program. It's not ideal that not everyone has that opportunity, but don't make the mistake of thinking that your experience is the only experience. It's also a bit strange, because back when I was making the transition from Wintel to Macintosh…

> but don't make the mistake of thinking that your experience is the only experience

I'm literally responding to someone claiming it's easier across the board. I'm not the one making that mistake.

> Do they no longer exist?

That sounds really complicated compared to just opening a web page. Besides, my computer doesn't even have a Bluetooth connection.

Re: Meta Wants More AI Bots on Facebook and Instagram

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Post by mrweasel »

seydor wrote: post #66

Socialization is about conspecifics. AI may augment the process for humans, but you can't expect people at large to engage with nonhumans. I mean, people do talk to their pets, but they don't consider that socializing.

> but they don't consider that socializing.

Which is exactly why this will make Facebooks problem even worse. Honestly I don't think Facebook understand what their main issue is, it's lack of real human interaction. The stupid part is that they killed their main product themselves, in order to push ever more ads.

LinkedIn is becoming a shit show as more and more people are posting stuff that previously belonged on Facebook, though they are tacking on some work related angle, you know to keep it professional. It is my opinion that the reason why LinkedIn is seeing more and more of these Facebook posts is because it is the last place online where you'll get real human interaction and socializing (however f-ed up it might be).

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Post by Retr0id »

EcommerceFlow wrote: post #93

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…

There are several of these already.

Example: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/socialai-ai-social-network/id6...

Surprisingly, it has broadly positive reviews. Maybe Meta is onto something.

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Post by Vagari »

EcommerceFlow wrote: post #93

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…

You could even create targeted brands: "Narcissistic Social" -where everyone sees you the way you think you are-

Re: Meta Wants More AI Bots on Facebook and Instagram

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Post by smallmancontrov »

EcommerceFlow wrote: post #108
zeroCalories wrote: post #102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If something like this does happen I imagine it would target a small segment of the population, as this would be very expensive.

Given the average IG comment, a 300m parameter model should suffice.

Sounds about right, and we just elected GPT-2 president, so 1.5b parameters is an upper bound on what you need to impress most people.

Re: Meta Wants More AI Bots on Facebook and Instagram

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Post by EcommerceFlow »

Retr0id wrote: post #115
EcommerceFlow wrote: post #93

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…

There are several of these already. Example: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/socialai-ai-social-network/id6... Surprisingly, it has broadly positive reviews. Maybe Meta is onto something.

Thank you, my dreams have finally come true.

Re: Meta Wants More AI Bots on Facebook and Instagram

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Post by nerdponx »

bluGill wrote: post #79
nothercastle wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Marketplace… somehow they took over the marketplace for used stuff and killed cl. OfferUp was always crap so it doesn’t count.

Craigslist is still there. They only way to keep it around is make sure you use it.

You can use it, but you're swimming upstream if you do. Fewer buyers, fewer sellers of things you might want to buy.

Re: Meta Wants More AI Bots on Facebook and Instagram

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Post by mentalgear »

onlyrealcuzzo wrote: post #104
EcommerceFlow wrote: post #93

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 is sort of TikTok, right? 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, b…

maybe add a source
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