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Meta Deployed AI and It Is Killing Our Agency

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Re: Meta Deployed AI and It Is Killing Our Agency

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Post by bryanrasmussen »

csomar wrote: post #50
matt_heimer wrote: post #20

I think most big tech companies are like this and it's just going to get worse as AI adoption increases internally. 2 days ago I tried to create new gmail account and Google insisted that my phone number was used too many times. Fine, I'll pay for a new workspace account... Submit my billing information, that same that I use on other accounts but now there is an extra validation step that requires my ID and copies of…

The sad part is that you gave your information and kept trying to give them money despite all of this hassle? What is exactly you are looking for? If it's email, there is tons of providers out there who will be happy to take your money.

the only thing I can think that would make it imperative that you get a gmail instead of other email provider is that google provides the ecosystem of apps and google apps script to automate them, if you have built up a lot of tooling for automating things it can be a pretty sweet platform to do things in.

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Post by pmdr »

mromanuk wrote: post #57

This article is LLM generated, has the typical structure, that I’m tired of reading by now. They Always write using this rhythm, repeating 3 times a list of dramatic stuff “every this, every that”.

Could be. But they're in the SEO business, articles sounded like that long before LLMs were trained on them to produce the same crap.

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Post by hyperhello »

ThrowawayTestr wrote: post #25
galoisscobi wrote: post #13

Stop giving your money at Meta, it’s a simple solution and an ethical one.

Just abandon your livelihood, simple as.

I couldn’t sympathize more, but if there is no money in shoveling more ads into the web, then find something else to do.

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Post by agilob »

danybittel wrote: post #49
steve1977 wrote: post #28

Considering that ads are a pest and all Meta platforms make Hell look like a vacation location, my empathy is very limited.

And building your "agency" around a sole platform..

They say they also run on Google and Tiktok

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Post by bryanrasmussen »

mromanuk wrote: post #57

This article is LLM generated, has the typical structure, that I’m tired of reading by now. They Always write using this rhythm, repeating 3 times a list of dramatic stuff “every this, every that”.

or it has the typical structure because that is what content providers made their workers provide over the last decade due to engagement stats showing that got the most users clicking, responding, subscribing, and that is what the LLM was trained on.

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Post by smelendez »

tgtweak wrote: post #41

I've ran into this even in my limited advertising on meta - they actaully want you to use the actual individual's facebook account to manage the ads accounts, even on behalf of the clients through the agency. This is kind of insane behavior but when you remember that google actually supports enterprise domains and SSO and facebook has very little of that - or relatively little - it makes sense. If you are personally…

Yeah, Meta wants you to have a single Facebook account under your legal name that you use for all your personal and professional contact with them. Never mind if you’re freelancing for three companies that don’t want to be linked to each other and running the page for your church and your karate studio.

So of course people try to set up multiple accounts, but anyone over a certain age setting up a new account is naturally flagged as suspicious. The solution is just to allow a type of accounts that only manage business pages, but that would probably mess up their stats.

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Post by samiv »

The users with their account issues are such a DRAG! How can a poor trillion dollar company be expected to be able to manage this situation? Worst case scenario is they'd have to gasp hire humans to resolve issues.

/s

Same thing happened to me on discord. Created new account and before first login it was already banned. Yay.

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Post by lelanthran »

matt_heimer wrote: post #20

I think most big tech companies are like this and it's just going to get worse as AI adoption increases internally. 2 days ago I tried to create new gmail account and Google insisted that my phone number was used too many times. Fine, I'll pay for a new workspace account... Submit my billing information, that same that I use on other accounts but now there is an extra validation step that requires my ID and copies of…

> I think most big tech companies are like this and it's just going to get worse as AI adoption increases internally.

Welcome to UB, at scale, in every language.

Everyone loves to complain about C (and C++) UB; well, now, you have that in every language.

We're at the point now that my manually written (non-trivial) projects C hits fewer undefined behaviour than even trivial projects constructed with an LLM and human "review".

(I even wrote a blog post about it!)

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