Comment on Study of 8k Posts Suggests 40+% of Facebook Posts are AI-Generated
Magister@lemmy.world 1 week ago
It’s incredible, for months now I see some suggested groups, with an AI generated picture of a pet/animal, and the text is always “Great photography”. I block them, but still see new groups every day with things like this, incredible…
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?
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…
Engagement is engagement, sustainability be damned.
will_a113@lemmy.ml 1 week 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?
WalrusDragonOnABike@reddthat.com 1 week 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.
acosmichippo@lemmy.world 1 week ago
surely at some point advertisers will put 2 and 2 together when they stop seeing results from targeted advertising.
SolarMonkey@slrpnk.net 1 week 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.
lepinkainen@lemmy.world 1 week 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
acosmichippo@lemmy.world 1 week ago
they measure engagement, but they sell human eyeballs for ads.
andallthat@lemmy.world 1 week 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?)
lepinkainen@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Engagement is eyeballs looking at ads
anomnom@sh.itjust.works 1 week 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.
1984@lemmy.today 1 week 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.