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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.

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[–] nutsack@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

I avoid any multiplayer game that has bots that you can't filter out and you have to play with them not knowing that they're bots. it removes all the font of any game ever

[–] Pregnenolone@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago
[–] veeesix@lemmy.ca 103 points 1 week ago (10 children)

That’s what the world was missing, NPCs.

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[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 95 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Best thing you can do is not use any Meta products. What a shit company

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[–] Nougat@fedia.io 67 points 1 week ago (2 children)

“Proud black queer momma of 2 & truth-teller,”

This sounds like a caricature.

[–] beefbot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 6 days ago

Sounds like a honeypot or something. Idk what horrifying use it might have

[–] Vanth@reddthat.com 49 points 1 week ago (3 children)

It screams white person lying about their identity to justify some whackadoo comment. "I can say this racist/homophobic thing bc I'm a black queer momma of 2. If you can't handle me, you're bigoted".

... sure they are ...

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[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 59 points 1 week ago

Wow that’s horrifying. Hilarious and horrifying.

[–] GrammarPolice@lemmy.world 51 points 1 week ago

Proud black queer momma of 2

Way to try to force a stereotype there Meta.

Absolutely disgusting whatever the fuck this platform is trying to do with this AI nonsense

[–] maxenmajs@lemmy.world 46 points 1 week ago (2 children)

This is getting really fucking creepy. I suppose next they're going to start following and sending private messages because anything is worth it for our precious "engagement".

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[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 41 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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.

[–] Veedem@lemmy.world 36 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It feels like Zuckerberg is out of ideas and just chases the trends to stay relevant. He was all in on the “metaverse” until he wasn’t because the concept disappeared. Now, he’s all in on AI because everyone else is. Even the quest, before it became the face of the metaverse, was him chasing another big idea from someone else.

He and the company haven’t had original ideas in a very long time. Even the smaller ones, like Stories and Reels, are just ideas copied from someone else.

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[–] Lev_Astov@lemmy.world 36 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (8 children)

I still don't understand why they're doing it. They can't possibly think this will be good long-term, can they?

And what's with the article ending on a note of trying to make it sound bad that reviving nuclear power is a negative thing? If that's the result of AI slop, then I'd call it a net positive.

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[–] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 35 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You cannot really pollute these platforms any more than they already are imo. The AI slop perfectly resonates with the rest of the garbage there, so it shouldn't make a difference.

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[–] Clanket@lemmy.world 31 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Thank fuck I deleted my Facebook when I did (around the time of the Cambrige Analytica scandal). Never had an Instagram.

For anyone reading, delete them all. Load of shite, you won't miss them.

This type of stuff will get a whole lot worse before it gets better.

[–] gubblebumbum@lemm.ee 31 points 1 week ago (4 children)

how are advertisers ok with this?

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Why wouldn't they be? IG gets billions of eyeballs every month to put their camouflage ads in front of. They don't care about much else.

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 35 points 1 week ago (8 children)

Does it make them money?

If yes, then they’re ok with pretty much anything.

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[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 28 points 1 week ago

Accelerating dead internet.

[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 28 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)
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