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Meta’s AI Profiles Are Already Polluting Instagram and Facebook With Slop (gizmodo.com)
submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

In around 2005 or so I went back to look at a Usenet newsgroup which had been a major part of my online life in the 1990s. All the people had gone, but the spambots were still there and the entire group was just bot spam posted at nobody and read by no one. The bots were even replying to one another's threads. A forum where multiple IRL human friendships had been forged over the years was nothing more than grifting robots spamming at each other.

It's fully 20 years later and the same shit is going down with a new coat of paint.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

I really miss the BBS forums.

I made a load of friends on those.

When I quit reddit, it occurred to me that after 10 years, I hadn't made a single friend there.

Now many of these remaining BBS forums have a constant battle against bots.