Three cheers for citing Jaron Lanier’s illuminating & prescient “Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now.” I did. And I’ve never once regretted it since.
That whole AI profile thing is actually mental. I read some articles as to why they wanted to introduce them in the first place. Two reasons kept popping up, one is to improve engagement. Make these fake profiles comment and create posts to "spark conversation" as overall engagement is declining. The second is to improve the engagement metrics for influencers 🤣 As due to the algorithm reducing posts reach to ACTUAL HUMANS they fill them with fake profiles to view,like and comment. So the influencer economy keeps going. These are two fixes to problems of their own making. It's actually bonkers.
Right, it's actually insane. It's bloating engagement metrics so what's even real? How will they even determine which accounts will be so lucky to get this "engagement."
And "sparking conversation" aka controlling the narrative that they want to create. It's so icky!
Imagine if an outside agency came in and said "We have a suite of AI profiles who will engage with your profile for a fee."
Meta would raise a red flag and said "hey this is spam"
But because they are in control, and because it's serving their best interest, it's packaged as a "feature."
"It’s like being in a relationship with someone who pretends to be this incredible person, but slowly, the more hooked you are, the more that they reveal their true nature. Before you know it, you’re so trapped, and there’s so many things that you do enjoy, that you are willing to take the crap in stride. Are we in a semi-abusive relationship with Meta?"
Literally this conversation I had this morning. 😂 I love finding creators on Instagram, but it's so noisy. I can't wait until the bots and the metaverse implodes from their hoarded and AI generated data.
Three cheers for citing Jaron Lanier’s illuminating & prescient “Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now.” I did. And I’ve never once regretted it since.
That whole AI profile thing is actually mental. I read some articles as to why they wanted to introduce them in the first place. Two reasons kept popping up, one is to improve engagement. Make these fake profiles comment and create posts to "spark conversation" as overall engagement is declining. The second is to improve the engagement metrics for influencers 🤣 As due to the algorithm reducing posts reach to ACTUAL HUMANS they fill them with fake profiles to view,like and comment. So the influencer economy keeps going. These are two fixes to problems of their own making. It's actually bonkers.
Right, it's actually insane. It's bloating engagement metrics so what's even real? How will they even determine which accounts will be so lucky to get this "engagement."
And "sparking conversation" aka controlling the narrative that they want to create. It's so icky!
Imagine if an outside agency came in and said "We have a suite of AI profiles who will engage with your profile for a fee."
Meta would raise a red flag and said "hey this is spam"
But because they are in control, and because it's serving their best interest, it's packaged as a "feature."
It's truly so creepy.
"It’s like being in a relationship with someone who pretends to be this incredible person, but slowly, the more hooked you are, the more that they reveal their true nature. Before you know it, you’re so trapped, and there’s so many things that you do enjoy, that you are willing to take the crap in stride. Are we in a semi-abusive relationship with Meta?"
Literally this conversation I had this morning. 😂 I love finding creators on Instagram, but it's so noisy. I can't wait until the bots and the metaverse implodes from their hoarded and AI generated data.