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Re: Meta Wants More AI Bots on Facebook and Instagram

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Post by freehorse »

toomuchtodo wrote: post #191
the__alchemist wrote: post #159

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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.

"Requirement" is a quite strong term. A requirement as to what? Keeping in touch with people can happen in many different ways. I do not see how if some of my friends posted in facebook (maybe they do? I never check) that would necessitate me to connect with them through their posts there.

Re: Meta Wants More AI Bots on Facebook and Instagram

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Post by amyames »

RajT88 wrote: post #196
nox101 wrote: post #135

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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 so…

I think when you click on the offending profile to block it, Facebook must decide that’s what you like to see. Or something.

Because some moron has 1000 profiles for “cars under $2500” and the more of them I clicked and blocked , the more of them would show up in my feed.

I hate that I can’t opt out of the “for you” stuff and don’t actually see anything from family or friends anymore . And I hate that the more I try to block a certain type of content (say: “Salma Hayek boobies”) the more I’m spammed with it.

So much that I have not even logged on in about a year.

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Post by Atotalnoob »

RajT88 wrote: post #196
nox101 wrote: post #135

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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 so…

I would presume the fishing and car groups are male heavy, and those men who have similar likes as you, like the booby photos.

They are profiling your likes.

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Post by herbst »

freehorse wrote: post #192
Culonavirus wrote: post #128

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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…

I build a diy-sexy-chatbot in the past, that's also the way I advertised it more or less. And to my own surprise many people choose to use it in a non sexy way. I don't know what they talked about (obviously) but many choose neutral tags like 'honest' 'sweet' 'pessimistic' over all the kinky stuff I gave them.

Later I tried a similar approach advertising it less sexy and that didn't convert at all.

I think people actually think they want sex but in the end they just want company

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Post by wil421 »

n144q wrote: post #252
coldcode wrote: post #202

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I mostly use Facebook for posting tiling/tesselation art in a moderated speciality group ( https://www.facebook.com/groups/tiling ) that has 72,000 people in it. There are some really nice speciality groups you don't find anywhere else. Facebook's UI is horrific for comments, I think even a bad AI design couldn't be much worse, but the comments are generally pleasant. I check my regular facebook friends occasionally,…

I always thought reddit would be a better place for such topics, and before reddit, forums.

Car forums are still active but a lot pf younger generations use Fb groups or even worse, discord. Discord is by far the worst for speciality groups.

Reddit never really had much appeal to me in the niche world, there was always a forum that was better. Facebook has surpassed Craigslist for classifieds.

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Post by ChrisLTD »

rchaud wrote: post #156
ChrisLTD wrote: post #138

It seems like this should open up an opportunity for some enterprising people to make a Facebook and Instagram competitor that isn't filled with AI bots.

You are describing a group chat. There is no reason to build a competitor to Insta or FB unless you too have designs to fill it with ads as soon as it is viable to do so.

Facebook and Instagram minus AI != group chat

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Post by exe34 »

lazide wrote: post #254
exe34 wrote: post #239

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as a chronically lonely person, I always dreamed of the day AI would reach today's level so that I could create a few imaginary friends for myself. As it happens, I've just gotten used to it now, so I have lost interest in making that sort of thing.

Lt. Barclay is both hero and cautionary tale.

honestly if addiction was the only impediment, I wouldn't care. it's just that I don't care enough anymore.

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Post by ceejayoz »

lazide wrote: post #251
cultofmetatron wrote: post #193

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

Especially because you know a bunch of people will pay for it.

Honestly, we should crowdfund a subscription for certain prominent folks. It’d be crack cocaine for some of the influencers and whatnot out there.

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Post by mrweasel »

weitendorf wrote: post #240
mrweasel wrote: post #114

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> but they don't consider that socializing. Which is exactly why this will make Facebooks problem even worse. Honestly I don't think Facebook understand what their main issue is, it's lack of real human interaction. The stupid part is that they killed their main product themselves, in order to push ever more ads. LinkedIn is becoming a shit show as more and more people are posting stuff that previously belonged on Fa…

You can certainly get real engagement on other platforms still. I think the reason there is so much weird cringe on LinkedIn is that: 1. It actually does get a lot of engagement and watch time, maybe not even despite how bad it is, but because it’s so bad that people can’t look away. If it’s cringy enough it’s no longer boring. It used to be that people ignored the feed entirely because it was all just boring stuff.…

You're second point is interesting, because that's probably what's going on, but the brand that many of these people are building is that they are psychopathic nutjobs who view dead/dying/sick children as a career advancing opportunity.

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Post by FredPret »

bluGill wrote: post #78
0xEF wrote: post #45

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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?

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…

Exactly - social media is the perfect way to replicate that “town square” vibe our cavemen ancestors must’ve had to communicate with distant social connections, short of having an actual town square.
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