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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] 30 points 4 days ago (12 children)

how are advertisers ok with this?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago

They're the ones buying it.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 4 days ago

Accelerating dead internet.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 days ago

All I can think of is one of Mr. Lovenstein’s comics… we’re finally free now!

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 days ago (3 children)

I’m so fucking glad I never made a facebook account. Even years ago I saw it as an unnecessary annoyance; I can’t believe how bad it’s gotten since.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Hey Liv! Sup! Jow menee ees and uus in jujubes?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 days ago (1 children)

After it replied with a non answer, here we go:

As you can see, this is still a great way to out an AI.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Great.

Na weeg unna haf tamayka brannu dielek jussa fak widda sinthoz

Now we’re gonna have to make a brand new dialect just to fuck with the synths

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 days ago (2 children)

w3 c@n @1w@y5 60 b@ck 2 1337

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Bots probably already know that though because of what they've been trained on. Actually ... Let's see Gemini do it for us.

Not too bad.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The inverse is more impressive to me.

But it can be defeated by trying slightly harder. Multiple characters, inconsistencies, adding slang and loanwords, the same tricks we've always used to get around censors and oversight.

Of course we'd have to keep it out of their training data and constantly change it... cyberpunk future is exhausting already.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (3 children)

God damn that is fucking hard to read.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago

Maybe we should interact with these heavily. Then Facebook can be abandoned.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 days ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago

"The never-born"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago

The Slopification of everything. Welcome to 2025.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

That's the thing about the Age of Information - it's also the Age of Misinformation. The invention of television was hailed as a landmark in worldwide education and bringing people together. Instead it became almost entirely whatever people were willing to sit through ads for to feed their growing addiction to entertainment. The Internet enabled anyone to broadcast whatever quality of content they feel like spewing out. It's really not even intelligent to expect random content to be true without doing any cross-checking, but few people do. Most just happily consume any material they already agree with, like Patrick sucking up SpongeBob's grandma's cookies.

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