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?

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

“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.

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.

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.

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

Wait, you're not a dog using the internet while the humans are at work?

surely at some point advertisers will put 2 and 2 together when they stop seeing results from targeted advertising.

they measure engagement, but they sell human eyeballs for ads.

Engagement is eyeballs looking at ads

> uses ai slop to illustrate it

For me it's some kind of cartoon with the caption "Great comic funny " and sometimes "funny short film" (even though it's a picture)

Like, Meta has to know this is happening. Do they really think this is what will keep their userbase? And nobody would think it's just a little weird?

Edit: itt: brain, dead, and fascist apologist Facebook Earth, who just refuse to accept that their platform is one of the biggest advent of Nazi fascism in this country, and they are all 100% complicit.

This is some Facebook quality content you're bringing to us here. It's so great seeing this kind of posts on my feed first thing in the morning. Just shows that it's not just AI poisoning our social media platforms.

Seems like an appropriate use of the tech

AI can put together all that personal data and create very detailed profiles on everyone, automatically. From that data, an Ai can add a bunch of attributes that are very likely to be true as well, based on what the person is doing every day, working, education, gender, social life, mobile data location, bills etc etc.

This is like having a person follow every user around 24 hours per day, combined with a psychologist to interpret and predict the future.

It's worth a lot of money of course.

colloquially, no one enjoys a pedant

But if half of the engagement is from AI, isnt that a grift on advertisers? Why should I pay for an ad on Facebook that is going to be "seen" by AI agents? AI don't buy products (yet?)

The most annoying part of that is the shitty render. I actually have an account on one of those AI image generating sites, and I enjoy using it. If you're not satisfied with the image, just roll a few more times, maybe tweak the prompt or the starter image, and try again. You can get some very cool-looking renders if you give a damn. Case in point:

yes, exactly.

... unless it's AI masquerading as eyeballs looking at ads.