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Facebook is asking to use Meta AI on photos you haven’t yet shared

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Post by rglullis »

ToucanLoucan wrote: post #227
rglullis wrote: post #199

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am not disagreeing, and I am not arguing for AI. I am just saying that the perverse incentives already exist and that in this case AI-assisted evaluation (which defers to a human when uncertain) is not going to make it any better, but it is not going to make it any worse.

Actually it may, even if only slightly. Because now as the GP says, the humans know the only cases they're going to get are the ones the AI suspects are not worthy. They will look more skeptically. I totally agree that the injustices at play here are already long baked in and this is not the harbinger of doom, medical billing already sucks immense amounts of ass and this isn't changing it much? But it is changing it…

>"Our decisions are better because a computer made them"

This is the root of the problem, and it is (relatively) easy to solve: make any decision taken by the computer directly attributed to the CEO. Let them have some Skin in The Game, it should be more than enough to align the risk and the rewards.

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Post by gambiting »

pyman wrote: post #238

The joy of deleting Facebook in 2021 is something I'll never be able to put into words. A company that's right up there with gambling and tobacco: designed to keep you hooked, no matter the cost.

I was going to say Instagram is much worse in terms of keeping you hooked but then I remembered who owns it.

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Post by doctorpangloss »

notsydonia wrote: post #163

It's also a huge danger as the system FB uses to tag and categorize photos is clearly flawed. example: Meta took a business page I ran that had over 150K followers offline because of a photo that violated their 'strict anti-pornography' etc etc policies. The picture was of a planet - Saturn - and it took weeks of the most god-awful to and fro with (mostly) bots to get them to revoke the ban - their argument was that…

Do you have a link to the picture, unmodified?

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Post by chrisweekly »

supplied_demand wrote: post #201
Eddy_Viscosity2 wrote: post #197

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How hard would it be tweak that model so that it decides between auto-paying and sending it to a different bot that hallucinates reasons to deny the claim? Eventually some super smart MBA will propose this innovative AI-first strategy that will boost profits.

Funny enough, the large AI companies run by CEOs with MBAs (Alphabet and MSFT), seem to be slow-playing AI. The ones promising the most (Meta, Tesla, OpenAI, Nvidia) are led by strict technologists. Maybe it’s time to adjust your internal “MBAs are evil” bias for something more dynamic.

In what way is MSFT "slow-playing" AI?

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Post by willsmith72 »

pyman wrote: post #238

The joy of deleting Facebook in 2021 is something I'll never be able to put into words. A company that's right up there with gambling and tobacco: designed to keep you hooked, no matter the cost.

I completely agree, and haven't had the meta/twitter/reddit apps in years. But facebook does keep me around (or at least keep me from deleting my account) through marketplace. I've now found my last two apartment rentals there, both of which were nicer and cheaper than alternatives on dedicated rental sites.

I find keeping an account open solely for desktop marketplace is a fine compromise

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Post by bgwalter »

They are still pushing the "AI dominance over China" argument to clueless politicians.

The anti regulation clause sneaked into the "Big Beautiful Bill" ($5 trillion new debt) facilitates consumer exploitation and has no impact at all on military applications.

If China dominates consumer exploitation, let them and shut off their Internet companies.

Strangely enough, why not invest $500 billion in a working fusion reactor if these people are so worried about U.S. dominance?

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Post by fredley »

pyman wrote: post #238

The joy of deleting Facebook in 2021 is something I'll never be able to put into words. A company that's right up there with gambling and tobacco: designed to keep you hooked, no matter the cost.

The best time to delete Facebook was many years ago. The second best time is now.
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