Thomas Hein
evacideMuch like the Metaverse, no one wants this and it makes everything worse, so of course Facebook is doing it.
https://futurism.com/the-byte/facebook-planning-ai-powered-users
Human Mimic@evacide I hate Zuck and everything he touches. People complain about AI but what they should be complaining about is Corporate controlled AI because that's the biggest problem of all (I say this as someone from the sciences that have seen great uses for AI that doesn't require stripping people of their personal data or issues of IP)
Hadley T. Canine (fox)@Tensorphase @evacide As someone who's actually been having some fun playing with local LLMs to see what they're good at and what they're not, and even enjoying many conversations...
Absolutely nothing the techbros are talking about is anything LLMs are any good at, and nothing they want to do with them is anything I want them to do, nor should anyone else.
caitp@evacide so I guess we should also start doing more socializing in person and live healthier, happier lives. dang
rye@evacide Why. Why. Why.
no brain no pain@nobrainnopain @evacide I hate it.
Tor Iver Wilhelmsen@nobrainnopain @rmaloley @evacide … but these AI personas will be an expense not income… will the personas click ads or something? Order stuff online? Does not seem likely…
Thomas Traynor@evacide I would rather redo my last surgery for a tumour removal under a local painkiller than be subjected to AI generated bovine waste product.
Jan Penfrat@evacide Wow so, #Facebook went from "we connect people from around the world with each other" to "we connect everyone to an #AI bot that we control". 🎉
https://futurism.com/the-byte/facebook-planning-ai-powered-users
Chris@ilumium @evacide We already have the situation on Meta platforms where scammers try to scam other scammers due to the fact that there are enormous amounts of fake accounts on Meta's platforms. Now Meta is going to add AI accounts, where we probably end up with AI-to-AI conversations and scammer-to-AI conversations. This is going to be fun.
Conlan Spangler@evacide This is hilariously dystopian. Our entire culture is becoming a parody of itself to a degree I wouldn’t have thought possible 10 years ago.
Jules
Asta [AMP]@evacide Is this the social equivalent of "fuzzing" in order to harvest more data out of people? I mean they already manipulate the hell out of the feed, right? This feels like a further, more direct extension/continuation of that: now you don't have to wait (or pay) for someone to post the kind of thing that might amplify interaction and create more data, you just can generate and test what works in real time. ugh.
My camera shoots fascists"...the idea being that you can interact with them almost like you would with a real human on the website."
"the idea" and "almost" are doing a helluva lot of heavy lifting here.
Venita@evacide The whole idea sounds stupid.
Shadow Heart@evacide the only solution I see to these tech bros "let's enshitfy all the things" is a movement of open hardware and software with federated decentralized social media not owned by corporate scum. The question is whether we can convert enough people.
faraiwe@Sh4d0w_H34rt @evacide the Web1.0+, a step back to the roots of an internet before spurious web2.0 walled garden , corporate owned access.
The plus stands for the developed tech and resources we didn't have, then
Rémi@evacide We should add : and it will be lost since no one is interested and the silicon boy have no views over things needed by the people.
Jeff Zugale - Z Factory@evacide they really want to, and think they can, make back the billions they’ve thrown at the Quest and Metaverse by shoving their VR down our throats.
It’s plainly obvious to anyone who’s been watching the VR space (since the 80s in my case) that this isn’t going to work, no matter what’s available in the headset.
There’s an audience for it, but it’s not going to be a billion users within a decade.
@evacide I will say this about AI interaction though - I have more than one male friend who’ve described how they really like interacting with Amazon’s Alexa because “she never complains, she always says okay and just does what you ask, she’s nice, doesn’t talk back, there’s no friction.” 😳
I have admonished these friends to examine why they think that’s so great.
arceuthobium@jeffzugale @evacide I hate repeating myself just as much as I hate those other things.
Kagan MacTane (he/him)@evacide "Our platform sucks so hard, people are no longer using it."
"Okay, let's get robots to make it look like there are still people here!" 🤡
🚎🏳️🌈Pollute_my_lungs
Mike Stone@evacide This feels like an obvious play to get people to spend more time on their system so they can gather more information on their users and potentially manipulate choices those people make. I wonder where the threshold is for this information actually being useful to them is. When does it stop? I mean, if they know what I had for breakfast, that might be useful sorta? But does it really matter if I had breakfast at 9:17AM vs 9:22AM? When is the cutoff on investment return?
j-r conlinI mean, it's one way to boost lagging DAU, I suppose.
Jan Dytrych🇨🇿🇺🇦@evacide aibook.com? LOL, they just don't know what to do with that hellsite!
Nicole ParsonsThe money behind AI initiatives:
https://www.investopedia.com/articles/insights/082216/top-9-shareholders-facebook-fb.asp
Vanguard, Fidelity, Blackrock - same investors that "molded" news coverage at the NYT, Washington Post, & LA Times.
The goals of Meta's investors explain why an unwanted product is being imposed on Facebook's users.
Disinformation. Malign influence. Election interference. Anti-democracy. Coercive Capitalism. Surveillance. Stopping real journalism.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilybaker-white/2024/10/31/facebook-ads-election-misinformation/
https://news.mit.edu/2023/study-microtargeting-politics-tailored-ads-0621
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook%E2%80%93Cambridge_Analytica_data_scandal
Efilroft Sul@evacide
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Elmo should sue for stealing his idea.
ami senc@evacide I truly can not understand why this is even an idea. How does it even benefit them?
Kévin ⏚@evacide normally I'd criticise AI everywhere, but at least Facebook is basically admitting their "product" is only AI slop, and leaning hard into it
Auld Ma Twəgg@evacide setting fire to the planet so hundreds of chat bots can "engage" with each other, serving ads to no-one.
BoneHouseWasps🔶🇬🇧🇪🇺@evacide I look at what the tech giants are doing with Gen AI and cannot help but wonder if they're not competing to be the first to kill their own businesses with it.
SnakeShotgun77@evacide There already are 1000 if not more Ai users just look at posts about jesus and posts like "Made it with my own hands"
Artemis@evacide
This is definitely intended (in part) to trick businesses into thinking Facebook is worth their time, effort, and advertising $.
If your page gets tons of engagement, that means you're reaching a wide audience, right? Yeah...maybe not.
FoolishOwl
ScottyC@evacide I have stopped using Facebook but still have my account active "just in case". Looks like I should be able to fully delete as I won't be missing anything after all.
ferricoxide@evacide
So, not only would my feed be full of advertising and only some of the posts of the people I explicitly follow, the posts of people I explicitly follow will be further crowded-out by posts from "AI personalities"?
They really do want to drive everyone away, eh?
So, not only would my feed be full of advertising and only some of the posts of the people I explicitly follow, the posts of people I explicitly follow will be further crowded-out by posts from "AI personalities"?
They really do want to drive everyone away, eh?
ComepletelyRatchet🇺🇸resists@evacide all the folks want the scurvy
Dr Suzanne she/her@evacide grateful I gave up fb a decade ago.
Maya Saura@evacide The dead Internet theory will be true 
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@evacide when the word "enshittication" doesn't even begin to cover the actual plan
Cognitive Dissidence@evacide
If they don't provide a way of filtering out the AI bots, I'll be forced to deactivate my FB account. It's a shame, because that's how I stay in touch with family. Oh well, they can write me a letter.
If they don't provide a way of filtering out the AI bots, I'll be forced to deactivate my FB account. It's a shame, because that's how I stay in touch with family. Oh well, they can write me a letter.
SomeGadgetGuy@evacide It's already an AI wasteland, but I suppose it can always get worse... Great...
Jay@evacide The old approach to business was to sell things to people. There’s a lot of crime to be had there, but the idea works.
The new model is to build a cage and pump it full of noise “made” by LLMs and read by no one so that the dazzled VCers can pour more money into it.
A hideously inefficient factory that makes its money by fluffing up the bean counters while the floor fills up with unused and unusable product, with nary a single human sole disturbing the accumulating dust.
Daniel Barber@evacide Eventually Facebook is just going to be AI bots interacting with other AI bots. And the odd boomer.
Alyssa Voronin@evacide If the man had two brain cells left to rub together, he'd put the bots on competing platforms and then advertise Facebook as a place where you could still interact with your friends.
Joanna Holman@evacide Facebook can’t even serve me suggested posts even sort of related to my interests and location most of the time but they think they can create an engaging AI. I have my doubts
grundy@evacide This is hilarious.Picture it a few years from now, maybe sooner, nothing but bots on the platform. A big self-contained, echo-chamber of uselessness. Nobody is left, the bots are talking to the bots. The trick of course is to get everyone currently pumping money in their pockets to quit. Let the monster implode under the cost of its thirst for energy.
Gareth Kitchener@evacide
This may be the final straw that stops me using Meta platforms. 😡
This may be the final straw that stops me using Meta platforms. 😡
Brian DearFacebook has become like MySpace. Dated, crufty, old-school.
Bob Blaskiewicz 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇬🇱@evacide WHAT PSYCHIATRIC INPATIENT THOUGHT THIS WOULD BE A GOOD IDEA?!
Finns End@evacide Could work if the AI-accounts do the engagement on a boaring network while the real people read interesting books.
AskPippa🇨🇦@evacide who needs real friends when you can have fake ones
Dean F.@evacide So glad I'm no longer on Facebook!
Jay 🇺🇦@evacide Enshittification is gaining new aspects.
Phil Thane ✅@evacide
They will of course be completely honest with advertisers as to how many real people are seeing their adverts and not include their imaginary friends in the count. Won't they? #meta #Facebook #ai
@lisamelton
They will of course be completely honest with advertisers as to how many real people are seeing their adverts and not include their imaginary friends in the count. Won't they? #meta #Facebook #ai
@lisamelton
Louis [OLD ACCOUNT]@evacide this post helped me finding my first resolution for 2025: to delete my old FB account asap.
James 🦉 #FBPE 🇪🇺@evacide Might actually be a slight improvement on the shite flooding it now. Never asked for it, followed it or interacted with it, but can I mute it? Nah.