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Re: Meta Wants More AI Bots on Facebook and Instagram

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Post by cyanydeez »

onlyrealcuzzo wrote: post #104
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…

This is sort of TikTok, right? Wasn't TikTok known for becoming viral by having tons and tons and tons of fake upvotes for everything to make everyone think TikTok was a better place to post content [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]? Facebook and Instagram had the same "problems", they just addressed it much earlier than TikTok. I would imagine they have already tested fake likes to maximize how believable the like ratio can be, b…

Reddit also used sock puppets.

We definitely headed to dead internet

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Post by SirMaster »

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.

> Post status updates and get infinite replies from millions of AI followers

Isn't that already what Facebook is?

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Post by dielll »

qwertox wrote: post #236
onlyrealcuzzo wrote: post #104

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This is sort of TikTok, right? Wasn't TikTok known for becoming viral by having tons and tons and tons of fake upvotes for everything to make everyone think TikTok was a better place to post content [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]? Facebook and Instagram had the same "problems", they just addressed it much earlier than TikTok. I would imagine they have already tested fake likes to maximize how believable the like ratio can be, b…

I feel so stupid about never having thought of this; how naive am I? I mean, yes, I knew about people paying for likes in order to boost their visibility, but never imagined that the platforms themselves would add fake likes to accounts in order to make their users feel more happy about the platform. This makes me question the reason for X making the move to hide the origin of likes, even if my posts never receive an…

Ashley Madison did it and it became a scandal

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Post by mywittyname »

TeMPOraL wrote: post #309
ceejayoz wrote: post #278

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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.

Maybe at the very top, but the middle is full of wannabees looking to be a rockstar for the clout/popularity.

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Post by mywittyname »

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…

People of his stature complain about all the nice things about America that Americans enjoy, and they attempt to destroy those nice things. Instead, they should just immigrate to one of those nations where taking advantage of people is de rigueur. I'm sure such nations would gladly embrace a person like him.

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Post by mywittyname »

zzzbra wrote: post #305
bilater wrote: post #303

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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.

The premise of most adventure / RPG games is that you're the only person capable of saving the day. And most novels/tv shows follow the stories of a person as they achieve some greatness (often coming from being a nobody). It's not like Mario is playing furry dress up while some HVAC guy named Tony defeats Bowser.

There's something fundamental about being seen as an important person. Not only does our literature revolve around this concept, but ideas about luxury and status are derived from this idea. Men wear the clothes that they see other important men wearing. It's why marketers get sports stars to sell products to men.

This product taps into that need. So it's easy to understand why so many people would enjoy it (and why some, like yourself, would hate it - some people want to be NPCs).

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Post by zemo »

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…

https://orel.li/games/feedback/ here you go

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Post by __loam »

toddmorey wrote: post #101
alex1138 wrote: post #11

Hey here's a novel idea Have social media websites be reverse chronological posts by friends/pages you follow instead of what AI thinks you're interested in (and yet somehow not explicitly following, yet you get it in your feed anyway)

This is what makes bluesky so refreshing

It's so nice over there.

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Post by bilater »

zzzbra wrote: post #305
bilater wrote: post #303

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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.

what a bizarre take - the premise of controlling your universe and presumably your self is you can do whatever. If you would rather be a peasant in the 13th century then you can simulate that too. and perhaps, you're already doing it.
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