This reporter will note that in the last, say, wk. (or two) images of young women w/ no mutual friends (or any other description) have appeared in the could-be-your-friend box that interrupts my looking at model railroading items on Zuckerberg's Big Book of Lies, Liars & Cheats. We're going straight down to hell.Plus which:John Herrman / New York Magazine:
Meta saying it expects AI characters to populate its apps is its friendly rebrand of an effective but alienating effort to automate social interactions — Why AI friends are coming to Facebook and Instagram. — Among Meta's many resolutions for the new year — making augmented reality …Discussion:Andrew Hutchinson / Social Media Today: Meta's Plan to Unleash AI Bot Profiles in its Apps Could Actually WorkTim Pool / @timcast: Dead internet theory is just fact nowCharlie Angus / @charlieangus104.bsky.social: My fb feed is increasingly filled with AI-generate rage content. I have even had AI-generated death threats. — Apparently Meta thinks that flooding your feed with fake will enhance the experience. — It's a reason I am spending more time on bluesky these days. — www.rollingstone.com/culture/ cult...Pekka Kallioniemi / @p_kallioniemi: Meta won't resist an AI takeover. Instead, it will create a large number of highly engaging (and probably highly attractive) AI profiles to interact with real users. Eventually, neither people nor these AI profiles will be able to tell whether they are interacting with realJustine Bateman / @justinebateman: - Be very slow to believe anything you see online. - Foster a spiritual life so you are in touch with your instincts. - Don't use generative #AI. Whatever the task is, do it for yourself. You're more than capable. - The tech bros just want to separate you from your money andWhitney Webb / @_whitneywebb: The Kissinger/Eric Schmidt book on AI basically states that the real promise of AI, from their perspective, is as a tool of perception manipulation - that eventually people will not be able to interpret or perceive reality without the help of an AI via cognitive diminishment andMeristation: Goodbye to human users on Facebook and Instagram: Meta wants to add thousands of artificial intelligence usersEd Zitron / @edzitron.com: Alright maybe I need a newsletter on this because people seem to believe this is an actual strategy. Okay? An artificial audience looks at ads how? Meta is completely washed. They already have a massive “artificial audience” - the hundred+ million (though I hear much much larger) fake/bot accounts. …Ryan Whalen / The Debrief: ‘Dead Internet Theory’ Looms as Meta Unveils Plans to Flood Facebook and Instagram with AI ‘Users’Doug / @goodkid-saadcity.bsky.social: this framing is misleading. it's quoting a facebook VP saying what he hopes will happen. this is the same company that swore and up and down we'd be spending all day in their legless cartoon VR land by now [embedded post]@milesklee.bsky.social: Meta's great new idea, now that Facebook and Instagram are infected with AI slop, is to also let AI-generated characters made by users appear as actual accounts on the platforms. The last stage of “social” media is millions of bots giving each other thumbs-up reacts.Mark Pincus / @markpinc: Has anyone actually tried Meta's AI search in its products? Ive tried it in WhatsApp and its absolutely awful. Its worse than GPT3. What am i missing? They claim to have 600m users? This product is so bad those people cant believe theyre using an AI.Colin Kirkland / MediaPost: Meta Adding Millions Of AI-Generated ‘Users’ To IG, FacebookCharlotte Colombo / Passionfruit: AI Bots Are Descending On Meta's AppsSamuel O'Brient / Yahoo Finance: Meta has a new vision that could change both AI and social mediaThe Post Millennial: Meta plans to bring more AI-generated users to Facebook, Instagram to drive engagement
How long until the sewers back up or collapse & we're literally swimming in shit? Après nous, le déluge de merde!Things Fall ApartEnshittification Comes to WashingtonJason Linkins
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