"I doubt theyโve abandoned the idea" Absolutely not. A couple of heads may roll for getting caught, then they'll dig in and do it so that it won't be detected in the future.
I disagree that meta offers social media. (Probably few platforms are SM anymore.) It's a bunch of click trap apps to make people mindless and addictive as they drive ad dollars to meta.
Eventually, these avatars can be tailored to individuals to addict them deeper and probably guide suckers to click and buy even more.
Man, tech companies really need to hire more regular people, or consult with some focus group experts. They keep rolling out weird junk that most people find repulsive. Get outside, talk to some folks who don't fantasize daily about making Star Trek come true.
Meta seems to be looking at AI avatars as a way to try and offset a world where human creation stagnates/declines. There's only so many more quarters of growth you can squeeze out before there simply aren't any more people to sign up for Instagram.
The only way I'd find these "AI personas" palatable is if they were an intentionally ironic commentary on how meaningless some of the empty platitudes we share on social media are.
And even then, you'd have to try to walk a very fine line with those.
But much of the idea here stands โ they will keep going. I don't even think they are worried about being "caught", I actually think they're going to get more brazen with it. In Zuck's last big interview about the Oculus, he said there they were going to start putting AI content and AI 'creators' on feeds.
I know they were older accounts; it were the comments of the VP, spelling out their corporate strategy, that made people unearth them.
I donโt know if Meta knows what theyโre doing โ they are flailing but if you have so much money in the bank, you can afford it โ and I also donโt think they expected this much outrage. The public response was visceral.
Letting creaters build little chatbots of themselves is very different from AI profiles that act like sophisticated bots to prop engagement numbers.
Yup. Unfathomable amount of cash. The ability to release models for free. Seemingly infinite ability to fuck up and just move on. Not a fan of company at all โ but I think theyโll make some serious moves in AI this year. For Meta, or maybe Zuck, itโs all about whether they can capitalize before the hype dies down. We saw this with Metaverse, and if something turns up before AI pays off, theyโll move on
You are pretending like we have no choice. People have a choice, and they can choose not to engage with these platforms. And they will leave these platforms. Nothing is forever.
We aren't a bunch of passive passengers on the boat of society (although some folks arguably are). The exodus from X users to Bluesky is a great example of that. Substack is another example of an amazing platform with real users that engage in real debate about in-depth articles that are written by humans that love to write.
You yourself are a recurring reader of my posts and I always appreciate every single of your 100% authentic contributions on here, especially when we disagree :)
This whole "sure the technology falls far short of hyped up expectations today, but just wait til you see what it does in a year or two!" thing will only work for so long. I'd bet that hyper realistic AI social media bots never come to be, and even if the technology gets there they won't be popular. Most people don't want this stuff. What, beyond the sheer novelty of it, is the appeal of becoming "friends" with a fake person?
"I doubt theyโve abandoned the idea" Absolutely not. A couple of heads may roll for getting caught, then they'll dig in and do it so that it won't be detected in the future.
I disagree that meta offers social media. (Probably few platforms are SM anymore.) It's a bunch of click trap apps to make people mindless and addictive as they drive ad dollars to meta.
Eventually, these avatars can be tailored to individuals to addict them deeper and probably guide suckers to click and buy even more.
Unethi-what? Not at meta.
This tech is good but not for social media.
We need believable NPCs in the games, or really consistent and reliable language teacher bots though.
The stupid, it burns.
Man, tech companies really need to hire more regular people, or consult with some focus group experts. They keep rolling out weird junk that most people find repulsive. Get outside, talk to some folks who don't fantasize daily about making Star Trek come true.
Meta seems to be looking at AI avatars as a way to try and offset a world where human creation stagnates/declines. There's only so many more quarters of growth you can squeeze out before there simply aren't any more people to sign up for Instagram.
Oh man, come on.
The only way I'd find these "AI personas" palatable is if they were an intentionally ironic commentary on how meaningless some of the empty platitudes we share on social media are.
And even then, you'd have to try to walk a very fine line with those.
These accounts are old and have been on the platform a while (more here https://www.404media.co/metas-ai-profiles-are-indistinguishable-from-terrible-spam-that-took-over-facebook/)
But much of the idea here stands โ they will keep going. I don't even think they are worried about being "caught", I actually think they're going to get more brazen with it. In Zuck's last big interview about the Oculus, he said there they were going to start putting AI content and AI 'creators' on feeds.
I know they were older accounts; it were the comments of the VP, spelling out their corporate strategy, that made people unearth them.
I donโt know if Meta knows what theyโre doing โ they are flailing but if you have so much money in the bank, you can afford it โ and I also donโt think they expected this much outrage. The public response was visceral.
Letting creaters build little chatbots of themselves is very different from AI profiles that act like sophisticated bots to prop engagement numbers.
Yup. Unfathomable amount of cash. The ability to release models for free. Seemingly infinite ability to fuck up and just move on. Not a fan of company at all โ but I think theyโll make some serious moves in AI this year. For Meta, or maybe Zuck, itโs all about whether they can capitalize before the hype dies down. We saw this with Metaverse, and if something turns up before AI pays off, theyโll move on
You are pretending like we have no choice. People have a choice, and they can choose not to engage with these platforms. And they will leave these platforms. Nothing is forever.
We aren't a bunch of passive passengers on the boat of society (although some folks arguably are). The exodus from X users to Bluesky is a great example of that. Substack is another example of an amazing platform with real users that engage in real debate about in-depth articles that are written by humans that love to write.
You yourself are a recurring reader of my posts and I always appreciate every single of your 100% authentic contributions on here, especially when we disagree :)
This whole "sure the technology falls far short of hyped up expectations today, but just wait til you see what it does in a year or two!" thing will only work for so long. I'd bet that hyper realistic AI social media bots never come to be, and even if the technology gets there they won't be popular. Most people don't want this stuff. What, beyond the sheer novelty of it, is the appeal of becoming "friends" with a fake person?