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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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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’.

A mistake on par with Netflix getting into mobile games. With advent of 5G, nobody plays candy crush saga or such games.

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#182

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

> ever notice how black people are disproportionately represented in comic media and particularly “reaction gifs”? No, I have never noticed that. In fact, I have noticed the opposite.

the comedy thing is maybe debatable but the reaction gifs thing is objectively true and kinda weird from my perspective

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I feel that these days "wrongthink" is a dogwhistle, by all means, just use X or pravda social.

I think this is the kind of rhetoric that has lead to the rise of the right in the western world. It’s something discussed here in this video. https://youtu.be/d5PR5S4xhXQ?si=eW68EoiHgADYhVUv

Everyone wants to be the hero in their own story, changing your beliefs requires introspection and humility. It's far easier to blame somebody else than yourself and take responsibility. It's trivial to feed people some narrative that trivializes reality and, in their mind, acknowledges them as underdogs and elevates them as "right".

The triviality of this allows malevolent actors to disrupt society and produce a chasm through echo chambers, each amplifying particular voices and shifting narrative.

Free speech is important, but it won't be found on X, or pravda-dot-social, and as much has been proven multiple times. What I take issue with and hint at is that neither of these are platforms that support free-speech, they are merely illusions, and people who yap about wrongthink are exactly those oblivious to said fact.

Personally, I am tired of arguing with people, I am tired of seeking truth in conversations with people unwilling to change their minds, I just want to live my life, safely.

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

#185

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’.

That's the price for Mr Zuckerberg's ownership structure. On the one hand, no one can dispute him. On the other hand, no one can dispute him.

So, Zuckerberg has got the AI horn. Well, he always had. But

There are about 70k engineers at facebook, I doubt its possible for zuckerberg to be aware of all the product changes that happen in meta.

However, it also shows that meta has no functioning marketing skills. This I suspect is also down to Zuck.

Had they marketed it, and more importantly, had the engineers had the training to talk to marketing first, then this wouldn't have been an issue.

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

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This was probably an okay idea terribly implemented. GenAI creators on social media kind of sense. Neurosama, an AI streamer, is massively popular. Silllytavern which lets people make and chat with characters or tell stories with LLMs feeds Openrouter 20 million messages a day, which is a fraction of it's totally usage. Anecdotally I've have non tech friends learn how to install Git and work an API to get this one wo…

> Neurosama, an AI streamer, is massively popular.

I think some level of Neuro's popularity is due to the Vedal + Neuro double act though, and some of the scripted/prepared replies.

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

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> Conversations with the characters quickly went sideways when some users peppered them with questions including who created and developed the AI. Liv, for instance, said that her creator team included zero Black people and was predominantly white and male. It was a “pretty glaring omission given my identity”, the bot wrote in response to a question from the Washington Post columnist Karen Attiah. This is probably tr…

If you’re meta and you have to defend the AI by admitting “it’s not really intelligent and everything it says is bullshit”, that’s not a position of strength.

Particularly when it's likely that despite the AI bullshitting in the absence of data on its creators, it's also incidentally true that the "black queer momma" persona is a few lines of behavioural stereotypes composed by white male programmers without any particular experience of black queer mommas.
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