Soon people discovered that Meta’s ghoulish posters had been among us for months, even years. There’s Liv, a “Proud black queer momma of 2 & truth-teller,” according to its Instagram profile. Add to that Brian, “everybody’s grandpa;” Jade, “your girl for all things hip-hop;” and Carter, a “relationship coach.” I’m sure there are more yet to be discovered.
All four of these posters have pages on both Facebook and Instagram with mirrored content and all four have post histories that go back to September 26, 2023. The accounts have the blue verified check marks and a label indicating that they’re an AI “managed by Meta.” Users can block them on Facebook, but not on Instagram. Users can also message them across all of Meta’s platforms, including WhatsApp.
Thank fuck I deleted my Facebook when I did (around the time of the Cambrige Analytica scandal). Never had an Instagram.
For anyone reading, delete them all. Load of shite, you won’t miss them.
This type of stuff will get a whole lot worse before it gets better.
Proud black queer momma of 2
Way to try to force a stereotype there Meta.
Absolutely disgusting whatever the fuck this platform is trying to do with this AI nonsense
Among us?
deleted by creator
People don’t seem to realize that powerful people are all the same as us; they eat, they poop, they get dressed, they sleep.
What they have is widespread recognition and resources, and enough people that listen to them and care about what they do.
Zuckerburg or Putin or Trump or anyone else in power cannot physically implement everything they want done. It takes lackeys and yes men to carry out their wishes. Sure would be nice if everyone would just be decent and quit listening to them.
deyt eat da poopoo?
There’s a whole thing in sports psychology about what happens when you give kids millions of dollars. Not only that but they are the top in the world at what they do. They were raised to believe they are a special breed of human. It’s not just the top pros who get multi-million dollar contracts. It can happen to the kids who don’t even make it pro too. It mindfucks a person.
I’ve been saying for a long time this kind of thing happens in tech too. I grew up with a lot of guys who’ve made various levels of success in tech from average guy to multi-millionaires. It happens. They really do live in another reality. I don’t think it’s much different between the pro-sports bubble and the tech bubble. They live and breath tech. It’s their whole life. Replace tech with sport. Not much different.
One notable difference is that sports actually recognizes this phenomenon. It’s a known studied field of psychology. They make an effort to engage athletes in the community and stuff. Things that keep individuals grounded in reality.
I don’t think such things exists for tech. If anything they believe whatever latest antics they’re up to is what helps the community and helps themselves keep in touch with reality. Because what the world needs is one more world changing app, another bright idea for a startup that is totally making the world a better place and absolutely not strip mining human sanity for profit.
It’s what drives most billionaire mentalities: elite projection.
They think that what they want must be what everyone wants. They believe that what’s best for them is best for everyone as long as they believe it to be morally okay for their own interests.
For a billionaire that regularly isolates himself from not just society, but also his own company’s employees, having fake profiles where computers do the communication instead of a human, go along and agree with whatever you say, remain eternally unoffensive, and exist solely to increase engagement doesn’t seem like a bad idea, since it seems almost like what he’d want for himself.
I agree he’s a weirdo, but this isn’t engagement per se, it’s to make money. If someone seems legit and is saying how awesome a product is, people will buy stuff. Meta will create a persona for businesses for a price. Meta wouldn’t let people go rogue and create their own, they want to sell the service.
He was already a weirdo before the money, well adjusted people don’t create face match or whatever he called it
Bonus: Elon “fuck yourself in the face” Musk pretending to be shocked.
Question: SNS stands for social network services, but if this message predates Facebook/Twitter/Instagram, what it was? MySpace or msn Messenger?
I think he meant SSN.
He meant just sn.
Facebook at that time was not collecting social security numbers (nor are they currently, I don’t believe.
I can’t imagine anyone getting me to delete my Twitter account faster than Elon Musk did
I mean, he had a point, particularly at the time.
I don’t like Zuck, but he did not misunderstand humans. He’s just 2 steps ahead of you. Kids go on https://c.ai right now and playfully chat with AI posing as various pop culture characters or professions. While this generation grows up, Zuck will have a portfolio of made up characters ready and waiting for them on FB, where the humans can live their life without ever befriending another real human and sharing everything with Meta, to be monetized.
deleted by creator
you don’t have to understand people to make this move. just market trends
Metaverse tells me that he doesn’t understand kids or market trends.
Tobacco company selling cigarettes to kids. More at 11.
Any source on any significant amount of children wasting time talking to AIs, or just anecdotes and a bad case of “youth these days”?
The whole concept smells like fringe NEET 4chan-adjacent behavior. LLMs aren’t capable of maintaining an even remotely convincing simulacrum of human connection, and anyone who would project companionship onto these soulless computer programs obviously has preexisting and severe mental issues (relying on AIs to fill a void in human connection is certainly unhealthy but a symptom, not the root cause).
The potential market for these AIs will never be any bigger than the market for anime waifu body pillows, because it’s same audience, different decade. Literally everyone else thinks AI girlfriends and body pillow waifus are weird as all hell, and that’s not going to change because neurotypical people want and need human connection and can tell the difference between a rock with googly eyes and a friend.
Also arguably a rock with googly eyes has more charm and personality than Zuck’s horror show.
LLMs aren’t capable of maintaining an even remotely convincing simulacrum of human connection,
Eh, maybe, maybe not. 99% of the human-written stuff in IM chats, or posted to social media, is superficial fluff that a fine-tuned LLM should have no problem imitating. It’s still relatively easy to recognize AI models outputs in their default settings, because of their characteristic earnest/helpful tone and writing style, but that’s quite easily adjustable.
One example worth considering: people are already using fine tuned LLMs to copilot tabletop RPGs, with decent success. In that setting, you don’t need fine literature, just a “good enough” quality of prose. And that is already far exceeding the average quality that you see in social media.
But dead men do tell tales
Of how we’ve run out of luck
And we’re all fucked
Because society is weak and frailIt feels like Zuckerberg is out of ideas and just chases the trends to stay relevant. He was all in on the “metaverse” until he wasn’t because the concept disappeared. Now, he’s all in on AI because everyone else is. Even the quest, before it became the face of the metaverse, was him chasing another big idea from someone else.
He and the company haven’t had original ideas in a very long time. Even the smaller ones, like Stories and Reels, are just ideas copied from someone else.
The Facebook wasn’t even his idea. The Winklevoss Bros came up with it and he was the programmer they got to code it, and subsequently stole it from them.
Wow that’s horrifying. Hilarious and horrifying.
Hey Liv! Sup! Jow menee ees and uus in jujubes?
After it replied with a non answer, here we go:
As you can see, this is still a great way to out an AI.
Great.
Na weeg unna haf tamayka brannu dielek jussa fak widda sinthoz
Now we’re gonna have to make a brand new dialect just to fuck with the synths
God damn that is fucking hard to read.
Someone’s never taken a linguistics 101 course 😜
I have not. But english is also not my native language so my brain reads that gibberish in a different way.
totally fair! 🤷♂️
w3 c@n @1w@y5 60 b@ck 2 1337
Bots probably already know that though because of what they’ve been trained on. Actually … Let’s see Gemini do it for us.
Not too bad.
The inverse is more impressive to me.
But it can be defeated by trying slightly harder. Multiple characters, inconsistencies, adding slang and loanwords, the same tricks we’ve always used to get around censors and oversight.
Of course we’d have to keep it out of their training data and constantly change it… cyberpunk future is exhausting already.
I can instantly read that, and I’m proud to have been alive during 1337 speak. Thank you, friend, for the awesome memories
1337 43V@
How would you even tell AI slop from the normal, human-generated slop on Facebook anyway?
It has a common meter.
how are advertisers ok with this?
Does it make them money?
If yes, then they’re ok with pretty much anything.
You say that, but then why do things like Tumblr and Reddit keep trying to ban the sex to appease advertisers?
That’s apples and oranges. They don’t want users with fetishes and gore. They can’t control those narratives. Some bot that they can control? That’s fine.
How does it make them money?
If an AI mentions their product, either by chance or deliberately, it can drive engagement and sales. These AI aren’t here just to be generic personalities or space fillers, they’re here to drive engagement and make money.
Does it make them money? Or is this a bubble?
I already saw dishonest advertisers making fake ai profiles to promote their shit
On the short term it works.
On the long term, who’s going to check Facebook if it’s all ads and slop?
No idea. If they want to waste their money on it it’s not my problem. I don’t participate in any social media that uses them.
deleted by creator
They’re the ones buying it.
Good question. I imagine it’s too niche to make much difference right now, but I can see this eventually being a reprise of the display ad industry shooting itself in the foot by doing nothing about click fraud.
Why wouldn’t they be? IG gets billions of eyeballs every month to put their camouflage ads in front of. They don’t care about much else.
The best part is no one is going to leave the platform over this except a small minority of nerds like us. The average person is addicted to social media. Ain’t nothing going to drive them away.
Not even all of us. If I left the platform, I would lose all contact with a significant proportion of my not very large family, who are spread across the globe. I don’t really have another good option if I want to be able to keep in touch with all of them. Incidentally, that includes my own brother.
I do make sure to curate my experience with every meagre tool they give me to do so, however. That’s the best I can do.
Heard that. I hear people complaining about being forced to use WhatsApp to keep in touch with “boomer relatives.” Man I wish WhatsApp was the worse tool I was compelled to keep an account on.
Right. I have relatives in multiple parts of both the U.S. and the U.K. along with Australia and New Zealand. I wish I had another way to keep in touch with them, but I just don’t.
Edit: forgot the ones in Canada and Granada.
Damnn are you folks trying to infiltrate every Commonwealth country or what? Impressive spread you got there.
A lot of the family got the fuck out of Europe after WWII because we’re Jews. But being Jews, we decided to get as far away from each other as possible too.
Haha I’m not familiar with that stereotype, but that’s understandable. My family is full of more of the out-of-sight out-of-mind types.
Apologies on my “infiltrate” joke. I meant it in like an anti establishment way rather than an antisemitic way!
I didn’t think of it that way, no worries.
Its crazy to me that everyone uses that garbage and they’re so surprised when you tell them that you don’t. It’s like you’re doing something wrong.
A fine fellow I met at an open day at a university asked me for my LINKEDIN. I told him that I didn’t use it, and then he asked me for my Instagram. Somehow, my Dad was almost as astounded as him that I had neither. You can probably guess which social media I only really use nowadays.
You cannot really pollute these platforms any more than they already are imo. The AI slop perfectly resonates with the rest of the garbage there, so it shouldn’t make a difference.
Took me a second to realise the title’s refering to “AI slop”, my inital reaction was something like “I know, it’s always been slop”.
I’m so fucking glad I never made a facebook account. Even years ago I saw it as an unnecessary annoyance; I can’t believe how bad it’s gotten since.
I love your downvote. “Nuh uh! Facepals is cool! You take that back!” lol
I used to really enjoy Facebook. It was a great way to keep up with old friends and made new ones. For me it was a springboard for IRL relationships when I moved to a new city. But now it’s just so riddled with advertisements and I’ve learned a lot about their extremely shady data collection practices that I just use it to “post and ghost” for my business.
A friend tried to get me to sign up in the early boom days. “It’s like MySpace, but for adults!” Yeah, that’s not the selling point you seem to think it is.
Those apps are legitimately dead. They just haven’t caught up yet.
deleted by creator
I don’t need anymore fake content. Real people are doing an amazing job of that already.
