Please do not give me shit for using Facebook. It’s how I keep in touch with relatives, most of whom live abroad, and my brother, who is has ASD prefers to communicate with me that way.
I would rather not use it, but I would prefer keeping in touch with my brother.
That said, I would not let AI keep in touch with my brother for me.
“Facebook, it’s been a long day. Just tell everyone my experiences for me.”
And it works because they track everything you do already so it actually knows
“Feeling tired? Buy this massager from our Marketplace. On special discount today.”
“Hitachi Magic Wand - slightly used - $199 - No low ballers I know what I got. WILL NOT respond to “is this still available” serious buyers only”
You say that as a joke but I’m sure there is probably some camgirl is out there selling their “slightly used” toys for more than they bought them for.
Social media going full throttle with dead internet theory.
I just hope they don’t come up with dead fediverse theory next.
The fediverse is alive and active, but unfortunately every single account is just an alt of The Picard Manouver.
As an alt of The Picard Manouver, I can attest to that.
Considering the quality of posts from the majority of people on FB, AI posts will make your feed much better.
My feed is highly curated so that I only see a handful of people I know in person who post things I care about and a couple of groups involving cartoonists I like and one about a TV show I like, all of which are 100% argument and drama-free. It makes it a far less unpleasant experience.
My feed is highly curated
A few years ago I did this, too. By deleting my facebook account. Best curation of it I’ve ever achieved.
How do you even curate a fb feed. When I tried that I got an algorithm that shoved “recommended” posts down my throat that got worse the further down I scrolled. Not to mention looking for posts older than a day is a pain because they’re not chronological. AND the cherry on top is when you finally reach the place where that post might be and the page just decides to reload. Awful, awful user experience.
Yeah, suggestions killed FB, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Reddit for me. You can’t even have your own feed anymore.
Yes, lately I’ve been getting a ton of local police department posts from cities on the other side of the country and I’m a firm ACAB person.
I use a Firefox addon called “FB Purity”. It blocks all sponsored and recommended posts. You can even configure it to hide posts like “Your friend commented on this” which would also put random public posts on your page. My main page is very clean and takes 10 seconds to scroll down every few days to see the most recent pet photos or any important news from my family.
Like a museum?
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Thanks for reminding me I live in a town over an hours’ drive away from the closest friends to me. Very kind of you.
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Just cut out the people and let me live in a fictional world where other “people” aren’t mostly idiots. Plug me into the matrix already. Let’s get it over with!
Soon social media will be entirely automated, requiring no human input!
But fr wtf is the point of this 💀
As infuriating and abusive Facebook is, this just feels sad. It hits in a different way. So dystopic
Just another step to the Matrix.
That would, given most facebook posts, massively improve the quality.
Unless it’s trained on preexisting Facebook posts.
Next; we’ll automatically share that you’re interested in products. But noone cares because it’s just stupid language models reading content from other stupid language models. People stop buying things because they’ve detached from social media with posts becoming parodies of themselves and irony doesn’t really lead anywhere new.
People stop buying things because they’ve detached from social media
What do you mean by that? Social media is quite popular.
Peter Noone cares?
Don’t let trolls bring you down. Some people just are not happy without making someone else sad.
Thank you.
This kind of reminds me of the state of the mobile gaming space with respect to these sort of “idle” games that are out there. I’m not sure if most are like this, but I’ve been experiencing one lately for shits & giggles. I started playing one a few weeks ago that’s almost like a tower defense-ish game, you’ve got waves of enemies coming at you and you need to erect various defenses to stop them, comprised of heroes from various roles.
The basic gameplay itself is ok-ish, BUT the developers have inserted so many goddamn currencies and roadblocks and things to slow the game down, I guess to make it a fucking grindfest. You’re basically required to grind and level up your heroes in order to advance past some levels, BUT they give you the option to do “Auto-battles” where you just let the game run on auto-pilot. So, in order to get arbitrary amounts of experience to level up my people and to proceed past some gameplay roadblock, you can run through X auto-battles and level up that way, so I just let my phone run this stupid thing for ~10 min just so I can advance. Or you can pay money for shortcuts, that’s their business model I guess.
Are we eventually going to get to that point with social media? We won’t really be maintaining friendships with people, we’ll just have our AIs maintain relationships with other people’s AI, and we just sort of let it run on auto-pilot while we’re off doing whatever. Then you’ll run into a Facebook friend IRL and have no idea who they are, despite your AI’s being best friends with each other. I’m just wondering how they’ll eventually transform it into the Freemium business model.
Auto-battles? You might as well watch gameplay videos on YouTube.
To be honest the best use case for Gen-AI is people using Gen AI to generate professional messages from simple sentences and the recipient to use Gen-AI to translate it back. I can’t wait for all my interactions to be made for me. It’s going to be terrible
I’d love if it could apply to jobs for me. Just take my resume, figure out the job position I’m applying for and go through their dumb application site, pull all the same data off of my resume and use it to fill in the duplicate fields that they have that are in my resume. Just let the AI handle all the applying for me and it can tell me what jobs I have an interview for so I don’t have to waste all my time with the application part.
I tried to get LLMs to write a cover letter for me. It could either lie about my credentials to match the job or write a generic one about my credentials. They are so dumb. This should be useful for us workers but won’t get better since it doesn’t help businesses.
If anything, HR depts will use AI to pre-sort candidates based on some algorithm that looks at arbitrary measures, the presence of certain buzz words, and whatever else, anything to cut down on the amount of work HR needs to do screening candidates.
I am reminded of the words of Martin Pearson from many years ago:
“I don’t know why I even bother to show up for these gigs. You lot seem to be perfectly capable of entertaining yourselves!”
Far-away family are the only reason I use FB too. My sister and some of my nieces use it to a disturbing degree, “checking in” when they’re in restaurants etc, posting “memories”, pictures of their kids. My sister has a special pose for her FB selfies - head tilt, fake smile. I hate it all with a burning fire, even when I’m clicking the heart button on a puppy photo.
AI just seems like another step closer to the abyss, the death of true creativity.
South Park nailed it in their AI episode.
The quality of Facebook will tank
Will anyone notice?
My grandma will
Lmfao, when?
Negative 10 years from now?
Should we hold our breath?
If anything it’ll probably improve. At least AI can spell.
Reminds me of a scene from some show. The main character was known for being a rich dude that never developed any practical skills, yet had an inflated ego. Someone asked him what his skills were, and he responded, “People say I have really good taste.” That guy’s inflated ego rested upon the belief that other’s like his choices. He contributed nothing to society.
This AI status reminds me of that. A user will have the AI write some status for them, and then the user will choose to post whichever they prefer. Essentially, other users would be liking the statuses that were chosen, not composed, all for the sake of feeling valued. It’s like everyone is unknowingly making the decision to live in a joint delusion where they are contributing, but really they are are just choosing which AI contributions to voice.
And long as you login to Facebook using a tails stick, you should be fine.
Is this what you’re referring to?
That makes a lot more sense than what I was thinking. Just a stick with some raccoon tails attached to it like a cat toy.
I was hoping I had finally found a use for mine, but I guess the search continues…
I like your thought process better. 🤣
Not sure, but better hope that it doesn’t disappear because this fox is fighting to get his domain back.
that sounds pretty cool actually. i’m running opensuse on portable right now but i might check this out.
If you login, why would it matter? You are logged in, they have identified you.
Edit: sure they may not know exactly where you are, but they know you are you and can keep aggregating data on you as you browse Facebook at least, if not more?
They will aggregate data on you no matter if you visit FB or not.
You can disable your Facebook account and keep using messenger if you want, that’s what I do
