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Re: Meta Wants More AI Bots on Facebook and Instagram

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Post by toomuchtodo »

the__alchemist wrote: post #159
k1kingy wrote: post #41

My FB timeline is already a complete mess with most irrelevant garbage as it stands. Not exactly sure what adding additional 'noise' is going to achieve outside of boosting numbers (which I guess is what they want). A current snapshot my feed: - Group post (from one I follow) - Ad - Post (from company I don't follow) - Group post (from Group I don't follow) - Group post (from one I follow) - Ad - Group post (from Gro…

Read this post to yourself aloud. Why are you still checking Facebook? Keep the messenger app on your phone if people you know still use it.

Not OP, but my global friend network still has folks who post life updates on Facebook, making it a requirement.

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Post by freehorse »

Culonavirus wrote: post #128
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…

I don't know, I feel like you have be a pretty low IQ person (I'm talking about the millions of people on the far left of the IQ bell curve) to consider any interaction with a bot as socially meaningful or stimulating (dopamine). Maybe if you used some future LLM and hidden the "this is a bot" icon, more people would interact, but as it stands, only dumb people (and there's not that many of them, again, normal distri…

My impression from reddit posts was that replika had/has a lot of female users.

Though I do not think that I personally understand it, I think that there are many reasons people can "fall" for something like this and circumstances that can drive it. Loneliness is not to be underestimated. In any case, I am not sure it is _that_ much "dumper" than the parasocial relationships with onlyfans (or other) influencers, for examples, that people also fall for.

Re: Meta Wants More AI Bots on Facebook and Instagram

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Post by cultofmetatron »

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.

that has to be the most black mirror nightmare fuel I've seen so far this year....

Re: Meta Wants More AI Bots on Facebook and Instagram

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Post by jocaal »

dartos wrote: post #187
coffeebeqn wrote: post #180

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’m pretty sure everyone involved is a bot. The con is pulled on the ad buyers

No, there are people on Facebook really do like AI slop. My Nonna unironically loves the AI Jesus gifs and AI gifs of dogs washing babies. Many elderly people, I think, don’t know or care if an image is AI generated.

Yeah, when I listen to the videos my mother is watching on Facebook, 90% of the content is narrated by a bot. I'd imagine AI content is also super popular on TikTok. Folks on HN should keep in mind they are not representative of the average person when it comes to tech.

Re: Meta Wants More AI Bots on Facebook and Instagram

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Post by bongodongobob »

iib wrote: post #83
k1kingy wrote: post #41

My FB timeline is already a complete mess with most irrelevant garbage as it stands. Not exactly sure what adding additional 'noise' is going to achieve outside of boosting numbers (which I guess is what they want). A current snapshot my feed: - Group post (from one I follow) - Ad - Post (from company I don't follow) - Group post (from Group I don't follow) - Group post (from one I follow) - Ad - Group post (from Gro…

I don't want to make you use it more, but I found a thing that actually works for me, to restore some of the previous feed behavior. I saved a bookmark that directly goes to the "Friends" feed. It seems to have surprisingly few (I think zero or one) ads and recommended things this way. The funny thing is that the "You read all the posts" thing still appears if used in this way, telling you to go outside. I do the sam…

This is it. My feed is fine too. If you don't tell FB what you do and don't want to see, it's just going to spray random shit at you.

Re: Meta Wants More AI Bots on Facebook and Instagram

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Post by RajT88 »

nox101 wrote: post #135
k1kingy wrote: post #41

My FB timeline is already a complete mess with most irrelevant garbage as it stands. Not exactly sure what adding additional 'noise' is going to achieve outside of boosting numbers (which I guess is what they want). A current snapshot my feed: - Group post (from one I follow) - Ad - Post (from company I don't follow) - Group post (from Group I don't follow) - Group post (from one I follow) - Ad - Group post (from Gro…

My feed in the mobile app is - post from friend - post from friend - post from friend - people you might know - post from friend - post from friend - post from friend - post from friend - post from friend - post from frien - loops - post from friend - post from friend - post from friend - post from a non-friend about a friend - post from friend - post from friend - post from friend - post from friend - post from frie…

> "don't show me this"

I have tried this with bizarre results.

Any kind of booby hot chick type post, I will do this. Sometimes I go so far as blocking the account. There was a week it was all AI-generated booby photos of Salma Hayek - no matter how many accounts I un-followed or blocked, there was a never-ending stream of accounts with AI generated Salma Hayek photos being posted. I gave up after a week, and took some time of Facebook.

A month later, I returned, and the Salma Hayek stuff is all gone. Periodically it goes back into some sort of booby photo trend, and I can't get it to stop, so I just quit browsing facebook for a while and when I return it's done. On the time order of a couple weeks, unfollowing and/or blocking makes no difference.

I should mention - I am part of a couple groups for car stuff, and a couple groups for fishing stuff. It's not like the content I am interacting with is particularly boob-rich.

As far as friends, I only see stuff from friends who post a lot. That's the trend. They aren't people I comment on their posts, or even really talk to in real life anymore.

Re: Meta Wants More AI Bots on Facebook and Instagram

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Post by FireInsight »

joenot443 wrote: post #188
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…

It might be heavy, but I really like the idea of someone building this to run offline and completely on-device. Maybe branded as a sort of 'personal journal with an audience'. My experience with mobile diaries is the biggest challenge is encouraging the user to keep up the habit. I'm very curious if this could be solved by introducing a new cycle of feedback from AI peers who would feign curiosity about my life. Coul…

Does it come with people picking you apart, hatemail, unsolicited nudes, etc.?

Re: Meta Wants More AI Bots on Facebook and Instagram

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Post by kingkongjaffa »

dartos wrote: post #187
coffeebeqn wrote: post #180

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’m pretty sure everyone involved is a bot. The con is pulled on the ad buyers

No, there are people on Facebook really do like AI slop. My Nonna unironically loves the AI Jesus gifs and AI gifs of dogs washing babies. Many elderly people, I think, don’t know or care if an image is AI generated.

This really made me think that the distinction is not age, but rather the people who have ever used computers to create things, and those who use smart phones as a source of entertainment only.

People who create things, have a sense of the time and effort that goes into making something meaningful. So most of the 'hackers and makers' on HN fit into that and show a disdain for GenAI generated content. We've even coined the term AI slop for it.

OTOH if you don't create things, or at least don't create digital things (writing, code, whatever), then you probably don't care if something is AI or not.

From the typical HN POV the rise of LLMs and GenAI has been a seismic shift and there's been debate ad nauseum about the ethics, safety, and capabilities of these tools.

Grandma has done none of that reading, writing or thinking about this technology.

To grandma it's basically an extension of gifs and emojis and memes, silly little novelty distractions.

Re: Meta Wants More AI Bots on Facebook and Instagram

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Post by freehorse »

ljm wrote: post #189
paganel wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Facebook the app/website is already dead, as only boomers and people like me (not yet boomers but not young, either) are now its only remaining users, while IG is going into the same realm of irrelevance, mostly because millennials (its main audience) have spiritually become boomers-like themselves. As such, Meta is throwing everything at the wall hoping that something, anything, will stick.

The only thing I can take away from this message is that literally everybody is a boomer. By inference - post boomer: dead - boomer: old - aspiring boomer: middle-aged - spiritual boomer: almost middle-aged - pre-boomer: young

OK boomer

/s

Re: Meta Wants More AI Bots on Facebook and Instagram

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Post by nradov »

lumb63 wrote: post #170
nradov wrote: post #131

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't need to know, but I want to know. Social media interactions doesn't cause me any stress or anxiety: rather the opposite. Most of us don't have problems with substance abuse or negative social media engagement. You shouldn't generalize from your own very limited experience or presume to give advice about things you don't understand.

Does this desire to want to know things about people you no longer associate with, not strike you as strange? There is no actual communication here - on one end, there is someone who either has no group of people whom they feel care about their update, so they “share” it with everyone; or, they are so conceited as to think everyone on the entire internet cares. On the other end is someone who does not know what they…

No, it strikes me as being completely normal.
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