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Meta Wants More AI Bots on Facebook and Instagram

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Re: Meta Wants More AI Bots on Facebook and Instagram

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Post by StableAlkyne »

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.

Whenever an on-device variant gets figured out, this could be a fun way to keep up with journaling. Especially if you want an alternative to the dopamine steam social media provides.

In fact, this type of program could lend itself very well to on-prem hardware. Social media is by its nature asynchronous; waiting minutes or hours for a reply is completely acceptable. That means your only real hardware requirement is enough RAM to fit the LLM.

Would be a lovely experiment to try and make a simulacrum of Usenet or the forums of old, since even days between replies are acceptable in that case.

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Post by entropicdrifter »

exe34 wrote: post #277
lazide wrote: post #254

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

You sound deeply depressed, you know that right?

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Post by bilater »

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…

That is the end game - your own little miniverse with you as the central character. And I think thats awesome.

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Post by dml2135 »

InkCanon wrote: post #77
muglug wrote: post #70

Instagram just asked if I wanted to chat with a Hawk Tuah AI bot. To me that’s the clearest possible evidence that the product people over there have basically given up. It reminds me of when Facebook went all-in on Live Video in 2016 — a product direction that pretty obviously came from the top.

It's a clear sign Meta leadership has clearly lost the plot, giving in to hype instead of any vision.

The bear is sticky with honey

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Post by zzzbra »

bilater wrote: post #303
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…

That is the end game - your own little miniverse with you as the central character. And I think thats awesome.

I ask you honestly -- why? Why do you think it's awesome? It sounds like hell to me.

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Post by apwell23 »

a2128 wrote: post #171

Facebook Meta has been making baffling bets lately. They spent tens of billions building a metaverse with the belief that people want to spend their days in a creepy legless 3d avatar of themselves that is pretty effective at simulating what it feels to have body dysphoria, playing with their other legless friends and spending a lot of money customizing their dysphoric avatars. Now they believe what users really want…

according to CEO Satya Nadella “The metaverse is not just transforming how we see the world. It’s changing how all of us actively participate in it”

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Post by albedoa »

onlyrealcuzzo wrote: post #177
oefrha wrote: post #167

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Every single one of your supposed citation talks about third parties selling engagement, except some speculation in [2]. Even the AI answer doesn’t support your claim, and regardless it’s super ironic that you consider several AI agents giving you similar answers about real world events strong evidence of anything.

Are you implying that TikTok had >50% of likes coming from bots and didn't know it? You don't need to fake the likes yourself to get the effect you want. The same thing was happening on Instagram and Facebook - just at a much smaller ratio - mostly because they stopped the problem earlier and the bot technologies got better and easier while TikTok was trying to grow and doing nothing to stop it - not because Instagra…

> Are you implying that TikTok had >50% of likes coming from bots and didn't know it?

I wonder if you are able to map any part of this to any part of the comment you are replying to.

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Post by quantified »

joenot443 wrote: post #290
kridsdale1 wrote: post #207

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Wait really? Matt was boomeranged?

Here's the announcement post - https://x.com/michaelsayman/status/1835841675584811239 Looks like his name's Michael and that indeed, he's presently at Meta. If you end up reading this Michael, great product!

> Introducing SocialAI, a private social network where you receive millions of AI-generated comments offering feedback, advice & reflections on each post you make.

Ah, to be heard by machines! Must be as fulfilling as playing with dolls.

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Post by TeMPOraL »

ceejayoz wrote: post #278
lazide wrote: post #251

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Influencers are drug dealers, not drug users, and they're in this for the money, not for the high.

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Post by lizardking »

I was on a Facebook group for SWEs (can't remember which one), and I had the distinct feeling a person I was engaging with was a bot. All his comments were boilerplate takes or non-sequitur replies, and he ultimately agreed with every point I made. I assumed I was just being paranoid, but maybe not.
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