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Re: Meta Wants More AI Bots on Facebook and Instagram

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Post by nemomarx »

darepublic wrote: post #232
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 would be the need for some adversity too. Bots playing for the other team, tailored so that with effort you can outwit and out reason then and stop the spread of their social media shenanigans

yeah the one I saw before let you pick sarcasm levels and a few other traits like that?

I assume you'd want more sophisticated prompting to enable winning arguments and dunking on them but it seems like a solid strategy.

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Post by KaiserPro »

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…

how have you managed this? mine is full of thirdparty shit even though I have been actively saying "I don't like this"

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Post by gedy »

smallmancontrov wrote: post #111
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?

I suppose you could tune the experience for whatever people want, downvotes, etc.

"I'd like to have an argument, please."

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Post by bluGill »

parpfish wrote: post #157
bluGill wrote: post #82

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Those models don't work for distant friends. I should call my mom more often. However nobody would call someone they were distant friends with 20 years ago to talk about their kids sports game - but 10 seconds to see those pictures on Facebook is still appreciated. When that is what Facebook does it is valuable.

what's the point in seeing photos of a kids sports game if you are so uninterested in maintaining a relationship that you'd never consider chatting with the person? at that point, it may as well be a parasocial relationship with a celebrity where you look at photos of their life and say "wow, i'm so glad i've connected with them". there's a difference between being informed about the goings-on in somebody's life (whi…

The point is to have something to talk about at the next reunion. It won't be for several more years, but I do plan on connecting again. Remember these pictures take only seconds to view, but they ensure when I next meet that person we have some place to start from when talking.

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Post by bluGill »

nerdponx wrote: post #119
bluGill wrote: post #79

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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.

Sure, but if you don't use it you just make that worse. Of course if Craigslist had died where you are then there is no choice. However where I live Craigslist is still active enough that I can afford to ignore anyone who isn't there.

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Post by baggachipz »

InkCanon wrote: post #234
baggachipz wrote: post #121

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I'm going to say "when" and not "if" here, because of your assertion above. VC's spending multiple fortunes on shoehorning in shit that nobody wants or needs.

I'd say most will fail (although this is the case for most startups anyway) but the question is if there will be any massive success that pulls the average up, so to speak.

As we work our way to the last two steps of the Gartner Hype Cycle, there will no doubt be legitimate uses. But shoving "AI" in everything will be a punchline for a long time to come.

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Post by bluGill »

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

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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…

I still associate with these people. I go to my high school reunion every 5-10 years. sometimes I go back home and run into them on the streets (not often but it happens). Because I see their pictures I recognize them - when you have not seem someone for 30 years you won't recognize them in person when you go to renew that connection, but if you see pictures you can talk to an old friend who life has drifted you part from. (as opposed to talking to a different group of friends and both of you leave wondering why the other didn't even show up as you were hoping to reminisce about something with them)

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Post by rthajl »

lioeters wrote: post #238
kibwen wrote: post #105

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One of the fundamental rules of our modern world is that if your business model is indistinguishable from the plot to an episode of Black Mirror, then you're about to be a millionaire.

Palantir CEO at the 2024 Reagan National Defense Forum: > Our adversaries do not have our moral compunction if it's even. They will take advantage of our niceness, kindness, our desire to be at home in Nebraska or New Hampshire or wherever we live in our peaceful environments. And they need to wake up scared and go to bed scared. > My version of service is the soldiers are happier, the enemies are scared, and America…

Striking the iron while it is hot. A couple of people may find out within 10 years that the defense industry is cyclical, too.

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Post by freehorse »

0xEF wrote: post #45
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…

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?

Events and groups/communities (eg hobby, housing etc related). Otherwise I do not "follow" any of my actual (or not) friends.

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Post by bluGill »

reaperducer wrote: post #106
bluGill wrote: post #78

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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…

SMS and email take too much effort 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.

I'll accept Acquaintance. I still want some connection - we will meet again in person someday. However because they are that low and it will be years I need to put most of my effort into friends.
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