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All the ones I’ve seen so far are minorities. This is fucking blackface.

This is great. If it keeps up my remaining family on FB will give up and I can finally delete my stagnant account.

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!

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.

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

That’s what the world was missing, NPCs.

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

Those apps are legitimately dead. They just haven’t caught up yet.

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.

Wow that’s horrifying. Hilarious and horrifying.

Fuck AI.

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.

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

This sounds like a caricature.

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

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.

I don't need anymore fake content. Real people are doing an amazing job of that already.

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.

The idea of random AI floating about to soothe people and give them attention is damn creepy. Ew.

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".

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.