Study of 8k Posts Suggests 40+% of Facebook Posts are AI-Generated

[jackanoodle@sh.itjust.works]

Anyone on Facebook deserves to be shit on by sloppy. They also deserve scanned out of all of the money and anything else.

If you’re on Facebook, you deserve this. Get the hell off Facebook.

[fandangalo@lemmy.world]

I’ve posted a notice to leave next week. I need to scrape my photos off, get any remaining contacts, and turn off any integrations. I was only there to connect with family. I can email or text.

FB is a dead husk fake feeding some rich assholes. If it’s coin flip AI, what’s the point?

[magister@lemmy.world]

It's incredible, for months now I see some suggested groups, with an AI generated picture of a pet/animal, and the text is always "Great photography". I block them, but still see new groups every day with things like this, incredible...

[eveningpancakes@lemm.ee]

Back when I got off in 2019, there was a tool (Facebook sponsored somewhere in the settings) that allowed you to save everything in an offline HTML file that you could host locally and get access to things like picture albums, complete with descriptions and comments. Not sure if it still exists, but it made the process incredibly painless getting off while still retaining things like pictures.

[fandangalo@lemmy.world]

Thank you real internet person. You make the internet great.

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[bassomitron@lemmy.world]

It still existed when I did the same thing a year ago or so. They implemented it awhile back to try and avoid antitrust lawsuits around the world. Though, now that Zuckerberg has formally started sucking this regime's dick, I wouldn't be surprised if it goes away.

[bassomitron@lemmy.world]

Dude, I sort of agree, but Facebook has wedged itself into every facet of society. I keep a Facebook account for 2 things: The pictures my kids' daycare/school posts because their school app sucks ass, and getting announcements from my city for events and/or emergency notices like boil orders or something. It's not as simple as just walking away for large swathes of people without losing important community functionality. More and more people absolutely hate Meta and barely anyone I know actually uses Facebook for anything other than what I mentioned above. But until governments, schools, companies, etc. get the fuck off of it to a better alternative, it's not going anywhere.

[jackanoodle@sh.itjust.works]

You’ve made an excellent case and argument for both ditching all traditional, social media, but also that they are all intrinsically shitty and evil.

If you can’t bring yourself to break away from techno fascism, why should I have any pity for you?

[brucethemoose@lemmy.world]

The bigger problem is AI “ignorance,” and it’s not just Facebook. I’ve reported more than one Lemmy post the user naively sourced from ChatGPT or Gemini and took as fact.

No one freaking understands how LLMs work. Can’t blame them, seeing how they’re shoved down everyone’s throats as opaque products, or straight up social experiments like Facebook.

[brucethemoose@lemmy.world]

Also… the tremendous irony here is Meta is screwing themselves over.

They've hedged their future on AI, and are smart enough to release the weights and fund open research, yet their advantage (a big captive dataset, aka Facebook/Instagram/WhatsApp users) is completely overrun with slop that poisons it.

[adarza@lemmy.ca]

Download a copy of your information on Facebook

[rekall_incorporated@lemm.ee]

While I agree with your message at a high level (I quit FB several years ago), I don't think it's productive to be so abrasive.

It's generally better to be respectful and convincing if you want to change minds.

[pennomi@lemmy.world]

No one understands how LLMs work, not even on a basic level.

Well that’s just false.

[ilovethebomb@lemm.ee]

Dude, chill out.

[will_a113@lemmy.ml]

I have a hard time understanding facebook’s end game plan here - if they just have a bunch of AI readers reading AI posts, how do they monetize that? Why on earth is the stock market so bullish on them?

[traister101@lemmy.today]

Educate my family on how they work then please and thanks. I've tried and they refuse to listen, they'd prefer to trust the lying corpos trying to sell it to us

[pennomi@lemmy.world]

“Your family” isn’t who I was talking about. Researchers and people in the space understand how LLMs work in intricate detail.

Unless your “no one” was colloquial, then yes, I totally agree with you! Practically no one understands how they work.

[walrusdragononabike@reddthat.com]

As long as they can convince advertisers that the enough of the activity is real or enough of the manipulation of public opinion via bots is in facebook's interest, bots aren't a problem at all in the short-term.

[slopppyengineer@lemmy.world]

Meta is probably screwed already. Their user base is not growing as before, maybe shrinking in some markets, and they need the padding to cover it up.

[lepinkainen@lemmy.world]

Engagement.

It’s all they measure, what makes people reply to and react to posts.

People in general are stupid and can’t see or don’t care if something is AI generated