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i find it incredible that despite having access to basically unlimited information about its users, facebook makes stupid decisions that seem almost designed to piss off its users. and then you have situations like this, where facebook was told ahead of time that this decision would make a lot of people angry, and then facebook went and did it anyway only to walk it back a few days later and say it was a mistake. why?
Remember when Google Glass generated backlash?
Now we have those AI pins that have a camera and mic, multiple smart glasses with HUDs and cameras, Smart Home devices that record constantly).Try it -> Backlash -> Walk it back
Try again 5 months later -> No backlash -> Continuewhile it is no doubt the case that most big tech companies are engaged in perpetual wars of attrition against their users, i can’t help but feel that this AI posters thing is different from the examples you provided. at least in those examples, the users have something to gain from sacrificing their privacy. and the company also stands to gain something as well. (although typically the company stands to gain way more from these exchanges.) but in this case, i’m not really sure how anyone benefits. nobody seems to want to be tricked into talking to an AI, and i don’t see how that would make the company more money. maybe they think it would drive up “engagement” somehow? but that seems like a hard thing to accurately predict. it seems more likely that zuckerberg is convinced that AI is automatically good in any tech company, and this is the most obvious way to shove AI into social media websites. so therefore it must be a good idea somehow.
My bet is probably on dead-internet theory cloaing in and tech-corps trying to extend the deadline. But your guess might apply as well if not primarily in this case.
Somehow meta is only in the press for its mistakes. Are they just not doing anything well, except for keeping Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp running?
It’s simple: They don’t do anything good
Nothing but a net-negative to society, across the board.
I mean have you heard of Llama, pytorch or Orion?
Are you only looking at Lemmy? Because you’re not going to see positive press about Meta here.
I could go dig up positive news about them if you want, but you’d be better off doing that yourself.
Even modest hardware can run a decent LLM. Maybe someone will open source a project to let people make their own avatars explicitly to poison the social media sites.
I’d really appreciate a low cost, high VRAM GPU to bring fancier LLMs to the average person. It would make the well poisoning that much more convincing.
It’s a big irony to me that they were making users show their driver’s license to ensure they were real people, and then the platform itself makes fake people.
Right, and what’s even as bizarre to me (as an engineer) is that they’re bots posing as people.
That’s arguably the most deceptive and malicious way to use a bot on a site meant for real people.
But they’ll quickly block any helpful bots anyone else tries to integrate on the platform.
“Our bad bots good, your good bots bad”. What a crazy world we live in.
“Our bad bots good, your good bots bad”.
Textbook big brother stuff. We’re in 1984 but the corpos are the ones providing the daily hate
Don’t worry they will be back. Either from a 3rd party of they sneak a warning about the use of AI accounts in their Terms Of Service on page 350
Delete your Meta accts/apps instead
Can’t, already did ~10 years ago.
Dumb fucks.
no no keep the bot accounts so we can get a second
Redditfacebook exodus waveI’m not sure I want the reddit/fb,/twitt people here. I personally think not having them here makes lemmy a better place, people are generally nicer here and I like that. The larger lemmy gets the bigger target we are for those large scale misinformation campaigns as well.
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