Pinterest users, especially artists, say the platform has gotten worse in the past year due to AI moderation, AI-generated art, and AI features
404 Media Matthew Gault
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Discussion
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@carnage4life
Dare Obasanjo
on bluesky
I've long felt LLMs pose an existential threat to social media apps. Once flooded with AI slop and bot comments, people stop engaging. Pinterest has hit this exact problem. — Also by going all in on AI moderation and laying off human designers, they are causing their audience…
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@josephcox
Joseph Cox
on bluesky
“I feel like, increasingly, it's impossible to talk to a single human [at Pinterest],” Pinterest user Tiana Oreglia said. “Along with being filled with AI images that have been completely ruining the platform, Pinterest has implemented terrible AI moderation” www.404media.co/pin…
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@mjgault
Matthew Gault
on bluesky
watching what's happening to Pinterest feels like a glimpse at the immediate future for much of the internet. AI moderation knocking down posts, people unable to talk to human beings, a flood of AI content, and hand drawn posts mislabeled as AI
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@MikeElgan@mastodon.social
Mike Elgan
on mastodon
Bad AI and AI-based moderation is ruining Pinterest. — https://www.404media.co/...