Meta saying it expects AI characters to populate its apps is its friendly rebrand of an effective but alienating overhaul meant to automate social interactions
nymag.com/intelligence... @hypervisible : “A lot of formerly social aspects of a platform like Facebook, in other words, have already been automated and replaced with machine learning, but each step in this direction has been subtle and somewhat concealed...” John Herrman / @jwherrman : Meta's fake AI users sound like an abrupt and bizarre plan. But they're just another step in a long, subtle process of alienating social automation nymag.com/intelligence... [images] Mastodon: Drew Breunig / @dbreunig@note.computer : I tend to think the Ashley Madison leak, where it was revealed most of the “women” on it were bots is the most foreshadowing story of this era. — Networks will continue to hack our perception like orchids tricking pollinators, so long as PM's keeping using engagement as their key metric. … X: Andrew Curran / @andrewcurran_ : META will have their videogen running on platform by next year. Google is currently integrating Veo into YouTube. I think Elon is training an Aurora style video model for X. Real-time avatars, trained on your social media history, will probably arrive at around the same time. [image] Justine Bateman / @justinebateman : - Be very slow to believe anything you see online. - Foster a spiritual life so you are in touch with your instincts. - Don't use generative #AI. Whatever the task is, do it for yourself. You're more than capable. - The tech bros just want to separate you from your money and Tim Pool / @timcast : Dead internet theory is just fact now Viv / @battleangelviv : imagine being so bad at fighting bots that you declare them a feature lol Pekka Kallioniemi / @p_kallioniemi : Meta won't resist an AI takeover. Instead, it will create a large number of highly engaging (and probably highly attractive) AI profiles to interact with real users. Eventually, neither people nor these AI profiles will be able to tell whether they are interacting with real Kev / @awestruckvox : so it's no longer a dead internet “theory” just a dead internet reality 🙂 Whitney Webb / @_whitneywebb : The Kissinger/Eric Schmidt book on AI basically states that the real promise of AI, from their perspective, is as a tool of perception manipulation - that eventually people will not be able to interpret or perceive reality without the help of an AI via cognitive diminishment and learned helplessness... @nnewsteevie : They're actually adding NPCs to social media this sucks Forums: Hacker News : Meta Wants More AI Bots on Facebook and Instagram r/interesting : Meta plans to add AI-generated users to Instagram and Facebook See also Mediagazer