Meta Wants More AI Bots on Facebook and Instagram

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Post by thm » Thu, Jan 02, 2025, 4:20 AM UTC

Meta Wants More AI Bots on Facebook and Instagram
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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Jan 02, 2025, 4:43 AM UTC

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Post by unsnap_biceps » Thu, Jan 02, 2025, 4:47 AM UTC

I wonder how these bots will impact their metrics reported to investors. Will they be filtered out or into a different bucket, or just included into the mau and similar.

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Post by itake » Thu, Jan 02, 2025, 4:58 AM UTC

unsnap_biceps wrote: post #3

I wonder how these bots will impact their metrics reported to investors. Will they be filtered out or into a different bucket, or just included into the mau and similar.

I don’t understand. Presumably, this will create more engagement for the human users, because there is more content for the humans to interact with.

Why would they count an ai model as a monthly active user?

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Post by jamra » Thu, Jan 02, 2025, 5:03 AM UTC

unsnap_biceps wrote: post #3

I wonder how these bots will impact their metrics reported to investors. Will they be filtered out or into a different bucket, or just included into the mau and similar.

The real fear I have is in plausible deniability for filtering and muting discussion, which they do now. Moving it to a NN can always hand wave away the responsibility.

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Post by dartos » Thu, Jan 02, 2025, 5:03 AM UTC

itake wrote: post #4

unsnap_biceps wrote: post #3

I wonder how these bots will impact their metrics reported to investors. Will they be filtered out or into a different bucket, or just included into the mau and similar.

I don’t understand. Presumably, this will create more engagement for the human users, because there is more content for the humans to interact with. Why would they count an ai model as a monthly active user?

> Why would they count an ai model as a monthly active user?

To inflate their numbers and justify higher stock prices.

So money, of course.

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Post by SoftTalker » Thu, Jan 02, 2025, 5:12 AM UTC

unsnap_biceps wrote: post #3

I wonder how these bots will impact their metrics reported to investors. Will they be filtered out or into a different bucket, or just included into the mau and similar.

Will they show ads to the bots?

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Post by ilrwbwrkhv » Thu, Jan 02, 2025, 5:21 AM UTC

SoftTalker wrote: post #7

unsnap_biceps wrote: post #3

I wonder how these bots will impact their metrics reported to investors. Will they be filtered out or into a different bucket, or just included into the mau and similar.

Will they show ads to the bots?

I mean Facebook massively inflates impressions anyways and has been doing for a while.

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Post by orionblastar » Thu, Jan 02, 2025, 5:29 AM UTC

AI Bots will post advertising and astroturf their company products and services.

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Post by friend_Fernando » Thu, Jan 02, 2025, 5:39 AM UTC

I think we actually need more bots discussing politics online. Specifically, we need echo chambers to be replaced by cacophony chambers.

The only way to salvage democracy is to bring it back offline. Online, it was undermined by troll farms pulling the strings in favor of certain shady factions. It's time for the good guys to get their hands dirty and break the spell. Trolls cannot be silenced, but they can be offset.