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

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

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Post by NBJack »

qntmfred wrote: post #52

I get the hate, but I'd be open to trying out a social media experience that is a mix of human and bots, especially as the bots get better at acting like reasonable humans. Stack Overflow was great when it came out. But the whatever percent of humans who were mean and obnoxious and wouldn't let you just ask your questions eventually ruined it all. Then ChatGPT came out without any humans to get in the way of me askin…

Ironically, this would lead to dramatically unhealthy social interactions and be ripe for abuse.

You are literally creating a bubble of interactions with technologically enforced rose-colored glasses. Get the right person in charge of the experience, and don't be surprised if it becomes a modern take on Orwell's 1984.

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Post by quest88 »

xracy wrote: post #80

I feel like the question I want to ask is "Why do we need AI-Profiles?" Like, I can barely be bothered to keep in touch with my friends and family. Why do I need a fake person to be follow on social media? What purpose does it serve? What possibly comes out of this that is positive?

Unlimited content without needing to pay out humans in rev share.

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

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Post by whimsicalism »

lionkor wrote: post #99

I don't like that some people, esp at larger companies, think that groups with disadvantages in today's world are cutesy adorable things to play make-believe with.

that’s basically our entire culture. ever notice how black people are disproportionately represented in comic media and particularly “reaction gifs”? just modern day ministrelism

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

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Post by lm28469 »

qntmfred wrote: post #52

I get the hate, but I'd be open to trying out a social media experience that is a mix of human and bots, especially as the bots get better at acting like reasonable humans. Stack Overflow was great when it came out. But the whatever percent of humans who were mean and obnoxious and wouldn't let you just ask your questions eventually ruined it all. Then ChatGPT came out without any humans to get in the way of me askin…

People should try to socialize in real life. The web is 90% rage baits, trolls, people completely brain washed by fringe conspiracy theories and politics

IRL these 90% turn into 10%, if you really care about socializing you'll have more meaningful interactions with the grandma living next door than with the queer black queen zuckerbot ™

It's like if people asked supermarkets to hide plastic apples amongst the real ones because they look better and never went bad, as if they somehow forgot why we even eat food in the first place

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

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Post by NBJack »

brookst wrote: post #132
rm_-rf_slash wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can’t think of any way where a social media app using bots to discourage wrongthink doesn’t come across as dystopian, and also a little sad.

All “wrongthink”? Like if someone expresses suicidal thoughts, the bot should say “whatever, do what you want”? I disagree. Apps are products with an editorial component. Editorials should be opinionated. It is passive and immature to simply not care how one’s products are used. Oppenheimer and Alfred Nobel have wise words on this topic.

Why settle for indifference to self-harm?

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/google-ai-chatbot-threatening-m...

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

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Post by ternnoburn »

lionkor wrote: post #99

I don't like that some people, esp at larger companies, think that groups with disadvantages in today's world are cutesy adorable things to play make-believe with.

Packaging and commodifying Black and queer cultures for sale to people, while not actually engaging or giving back to those cultures is a pretty time worn tradition, tbh.

Of course, it ain't right now and it weren't right then, but I'm not in the least surprised it happened.

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

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Post by Semaphor »

ErikAugust wrote: post #123
rsynnott wrote: post #88

Do they not have anyone sensible left in the room? Like, you’d expect that at some point someone would have said ‘these are comically terrible, we cannot allow them to see the light of day’.

I wonder if their product people get their ideas from Hacker News. Just the other day, a top thread comment was about an idea for a social network where you would receive tons of engagement from bots. Coincidentally (or not), Meta actually took a first step in that direction days later.

Wasn’t that a comment about an article regarding the use of AI by Meta?

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

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Post by MrMcCall »

Trasmatta wrote: post #15
davidw wrote: post #7

The thread is here and... it's pretty wild. This doesn't seem like it was a well-thought out idea to release this without some more consideration beforehand. https://bsky.app/profile/karenattiah.bsky.social/post/3letty...

> They admitted it internally, to me It's becoming an increasingly apparent problem that people don't understand that LLMs frequently hallucinate, especially when asked to introspect about themselves. This was 100% a hallucination.

LLMs just predict the next word, based upon the texts they were trained on. They are, by definition, a hallucination. It's just that, sometimes, they put words together that fool people.

They're just ELIZA on steroids, people.

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

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Post by debugnik »

ErikAugust wrote: post #123
rsynnott wrote: post #88

Do they not have anyone sensible left in the room? Like, you’d expect that at some point someone would have said ‘these are comically terrible, we cannot allow them to see the light of day’.

I wonder if their product people get their ideas from Hacker News. Just the other day, a top thread comment was about an idea for a social network where you would receive tons of engagement from bots. Coincidentally (or not), Meta actually took a first step in that direction days later.

Sorry for breaking the fantasy, but this is from TFA:

> The company had first introduced these AI-powered profiles in September 2023 but killed off most of them by summer 2024.

Also, they're deleting these profiles, which is a step away, not towards that idea. Although they're apparently leaving in some feature to make your own AI-profiles.

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