Soon people discovered that Meta’s ghoulish posters had been among us for months, even years. There’s Liv, a “Proud black queer momma of 2 & truth-teller,” according to its Instagram profile. Add to that Brian, “everybody’s grandpa;” Jade, “your girl for all things hip-hop;” and Carter, a “relationship coach.” I’m sure there are more yet to be discovered.
All four of these posters have pages on both Facebook and Instagram with mirrored content and all four have post histories that go back to September 26, 2023. The accounts have the blue verified check marks and a label indicating that they’re an AI “managed by Meta.” Users can block them on Facebook, but not on Instagram. Users can also message them across all of Meta’s platforms, including WhatsApp.
This is great. If it keeps up my remaining family on FB will give up and I can finally delete my stagnant account.
Pretty good article, this stood out for me:
Something about George Romero’s 1978 film about doomed survivors riding out the zombie apocalypse in a shopping mall feels resonant today as I look across Meta’s suite of AI-created profiles. The movie’s blue-skinned corpses don’t know they’re dead. They just wander through the shopping center on autopilot, looking for something new to consume.
That’s how many of our social media spaces feel now. Digital town squares populated by undead posters, zombies spouting lines they learned from an LLM, the digested material from decades of the internet spewed back at the audience. That’s what Meta is selling now.
I don’t need anymore fake content. Real people are doing an amazing job of that already.
You’ve heard of the Dead Internet Theory, now get ready for the UNDEAD Internet Theory!
All the ones I’ve seen so far are minorities. This is fucking blackface.
I can’t wait for the AI to reach this level of peak comedy
So brave, as a white man, to speak out as a black woman.
It is so much worse. Humanfacing
Why do you hate de-versity?!
If you don’t engage with them, you are a bigot and social score will be reduced.
This is some legit dystopian shit right here. I almost wish I hadn’t abandoned these platforms years ago, so that I could take this opportunity to do it. I hope that more people wake up to the insidious nature of this company and these services.
Join once. Leave seven hundred and twelvety times.
This all really feels like a desperate attempt to save their dying social networks, just filling their sites with garbage to make it look like they’re not declining
Idk, but I don’t really see that Instagram is dying.
They’re doing it to sell to companies to sell positive opinions and politics from “real” people.
It’s great to see them scramble to do anything of monetary value with their platforms. It only seems to be good for fake news and spreading hate (and remembering birthdays).
I also use them to advertise Lemmy
Fuck AI.
Seems a bit strange to blame AI for this. Meta has always been garbage and using technology to it’s worst effects.
I’m sure your stocks will be fine.
Stocks for what? AI? I can’t have stocks for a technology. I could get stocks in companies that use AI, but the only ones that are on the stock market I’d rather die than support a single penny to since they abuse the technology (and technology in general). But they are not the only ones using the technology. I’m not really a fan of stocks to begin with, profit focused companies are a plague in my opinion.
This is brilliantly dystopian They can create hyper-specific profiles to target specific eyeballs and feed ads from the profile itself. They no longer have to rely on users posting things others would react to. They can just write what they know will generate reactions.
Maybe we should interact with these heavily. Then Facebook can be abandoned.
How would you even tell AI slop from the normal, human-generated slop on Facebook anyway?
Best thing you can do is not use any Meta products. What a shit company
Replace “meta” will “all of big tech and surveillance capitalism” and I agree.
That’s what the world was missing, NPCs.
I just wish they were interesting NPCs.
Hey, take what you can get.
I’ll take the guy that says “Welcome to Corneria”. He may not have much to say, but he sounds more sincere at least.
We’re only gonna get variations of the “Welcome to Revachol” guy, unfortunately
how are advertisers ok with this?
Good question. I imagine it’s too niche to make much difference right now, but I can see this eventually being a reprise of the display ad industry shooting itself in the foot by doing nothing about click fraud.
They’re the ones buying it.
