Comment on Meta’s AI Profiles Are Already Polluting Instagram and Facebook With Slop

kadup@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• dan1101@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  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.

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• conicalscientist@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  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.

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• lurch@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  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.

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  • azertyfun@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    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 Musk’s horror show.

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    • cyd@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      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.

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  • SkyNTP@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Tobacco company selling cigarettes to kids. More at 11.

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  • kadup@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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    • yamper@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      you don’t have to understand people to make this move. just market trends

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      • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Metaverse tells me that he doesn’t understand kids or market trends.

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• ArchRecord@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  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.

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  • TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Jon Stewart’s Dinner with Obama, Cuban, Bezos

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  • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    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, Meta will create a persona for them for a price. Meta wouldn’t let people go rogue and create their own, they want to sell the service.

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• themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  He was already a weirdo before the money, well adjusted people don’t create face match or whatever he called it

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  • loutr@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Image

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    • Wispy2891@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Question: SNS stands for social network services, but if this message predates Facebook/Twitter/Instagram, what it was? MySpace or msn Messenger?

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      • loutr@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I think he meant SSN.

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    • juanito_the_great@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I mean, he had a point, particularly at the time.

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    • datavoid@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I can’t imagine anyone getting me to delete my Twitter account faster than Elon Musk did

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