All the ones I’ve seen so far are minorities. This is fucking blackface.
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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 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
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
They're doing it to sell to companies to sell positive opinions and politics from "real" people.
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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.
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.
You've heard of the Dead Internet Theory, now get ready for the UNDEAD Internet Theory!
The best part is no one is going to leave the platform over this except a small minority of nerds like us. The average person is addicted to social media. Ain't nothing going to drive them away.
Not even all of us. If I left the platform, I would lose all contact with a significant proportion of my not very large family, who are spread across the globe. I don't really have another good option if I want to be able to keep in touch with all of them. Incidentally, that includes my own brother.
I do make sure to curate my experience with every meagre tool they give me to do so, however. That's the best I can do.
Heard that. I hear people complaining about being forced to use WhatsApp to keep in touch with "boomer relatives." Man I wish WhatsApp was the worse tool I was compelled to keep an account on.
Right. I have relatives in multiple parts of both the U.S. and the U.K. along with Australia and New Zealand. I wish I had another way to keep in touch with them, but I just don't.
Edit: forgot the ones in Canada and Granada.
Damnn are you folks trying to infiltrate every Commonwealth country or what? Impressive spread you got there.
A lot of the family got the fuck out of Europe after WWII because we're Jews. But being Jews, we decided to get as far away from each other as possible too.
Haha I'm not familiar with that stereotype, but that's understandable. My family is full of more of the out-of-sight out-of-mind types.
Apologies on my "infiltrate" joke. I meant it in like an anti establishment way rather than an antisemitic way!
I didn't think of it that way, no worries.
Its crazy to me that everyone uses that garbage and they’re so surprised when you tell them that you don’t. It’s like you’re doing something wrong.
A fine fellow I met at an open day at a university asked me for my LINKEDIN. I told him that I didn't use it, and then he asked me for my Instagram. Somehow, my Dad was almost as astounded as him that I had neither. You can probably guess which social media I only really use nowadays.
Fuck AI.
Seems a bit strange to blame AI for this. Meta has always been garbage and using technology to it's worst effects.
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This is great. If it keeps up my remaining family on FB will give up and I can finally delete my stagnant account.
I don't need anymore fake content. Real people are doing an amazing job of that already.
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