Comment on Study of 8k Posts Suggests 40+% of Facebook Posts are AI-Generated

Magister@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• spongebue@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  For me it’s some kind of cartoon with the caption “Great comic funny 🤣” and sometimes “funny short film” (even though it’s a picture)

  Like, Meta has to know this is happening. Do they really think this is what will keep their userbase? And nobody would think it’s just a little weird?

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  • brucethemoose@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Engagement is engagement, sustainability be damned.

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  • Petter1@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Well, maybe it is the taste if people still being there… I mean, you have to be at least a little bit strange, if you are still on there…

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• will_a113@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I have a hard time understanding facebook’s end game plan here - if they just have a bunch of AI readers reading AI posts, how do they monetize that? Why on earth is the stock market so bullish on them?

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  • anomnom@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They want dumb users consuming ai content, they need LLM content because the remaining users are too stupid to generate the free content that people actually want to click.

    Then they pump ads to you based on increasingly targeted AI slop selling more slop.

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  • 1984@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    AI can put together all that personal data and create very detailed profiles on everyone, automatically. From that data, an Ai can add a bunch of attributes that are very likely to be true as well, based on what the person is doing every day, working, education, gender, social life, mobile data location, bills etc etc.

    This is like having a person follow every user around 24 hours per day, combined with a psychologist to interpret and predict the future.

    It’s worth a lot of money of course.

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  • lepinkainen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Engagement.

    It’s all they measure, what makes people reply to and react to posts.

    People in general are stupid and can’t see or don’t care if something is AI generated

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    • acosmichippo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      they measure engagement, but they sell human eyeballs for ads.

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      • andallthat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        But if half of the engagement is from AI, isnt that a grift on advertisers? Why should I pay for an ad on Facebook that is going to be “seen” by AI agents? AI don’t buy products (yet?)

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      • lepinkainen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Engagement is eyeballs looking at ads

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  • WalrusDragonOnABike@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    As long as they can convince advertisers that the enough of the activity is real or enough of the manipulation of public opinion via bots is in facebook’s interest, bots aren’t a problem at all in the short-term.

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    • acosmichippo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      surely at some point advertisers will put 2 and 2 together when they stop seeing results from targeted advertising.

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      • SolarMonkey@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I think you give them too much credit. As long as it doesn’t actively hurt their numbers, like x, it’s just part of the budget.

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