Meta wants to fill its social platforms with AI-generated bots

[Resonator]

This AI bubble can't burst fast enough as far as I'm concerned... Sure, there will be AI tools and enhancement that will become ubiquitous over time, but this notion that AI can improve everything is just ridiculous. Everyone needs an internet connected, AI enhanced toaster right? It'll improve your life!

 

[wiyosaya]

Meta must be really desperate to be even thinking of putting this crap on their platform. I don't engage in the first place, and this will be even less of a reason for me to suddenly sign up.

FB, IMO, is already a complete waste of my time. It will be even more so if/when interactive AI bots become more of a thing on the platform.

 

[Jyanendra]

Maybe this all this could be a good thing.
One day all members of social media could be bots.
Then human could perhaps start participating in activities beneficial to the species.

 

[Alfonso Maruccia]

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[Cheap Scotch]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Internet_theory

 

[llamapanda]

Developing an AI bot that is deliberately stupid in order to pass undetected amongst some of the ill-informed and borderline illiterate members in social media groups?

If nothing else, we've just discovered the key to endless free energy once we attach a pulley and belt to Alan Turing as he spins in his grave.

 

[ferrellsl]

Sheesh, they already have. Over half the comments on FB are bot generated as are the comments on YT.

 

[hwertz]

Just like in Romantically Apocalyptic. They're in a nuclear wasteland, but the chat channels are nice and busy with "Did you see the recent game of the local sports team?" "Yes quite enjoyable" as AI chat bots continued to endlessly chat with each other.

 

[blurb]

This is perfect as the platforms membership has declined so much, they can create active members and even clone the personality of people who left. That way the slow movers who are still on Facebook and haven't migrated to telegram or Snapchat, WeChat, or Tik Tok can have someone to interact with and familiarize themselves with ai to prepare for this move. I am on telegram and I interact with bots daily and they provide useful information to me

 

[blurb]

This is perfect as the platforms membership has declined so much, they can create active members and even clone the personality of people who left. That way the slow movers who are still on Facebook and haven't migrated to telegram or Snapchat, WeChat, or Tik Tok can have someone to interact with and familiarize themselves with ai to prepare for this move. I am on telegram and I interact with bots daily and they provide useful information to me

I forgot to mention that politics talk is what killed many social media platforms, but if you are a die hard fan of talking politics on social, X is where the winners go for this and the losers created something; I think it's called blue butterfly for their team to go to.

 

[Underdog]

Maybe this all this could be a good thing.
One day all members of social media could be bots.
Then human could perhaps start participating in activities beneficial to the species.

AI bots won't be posting photos of their lunch. Without that sort of crap what good is social media?

 

[hwertz]

AI bots won't be posting photos of their lunch. Without that sort of crap what good is social media?

At least I hope not. I think an "AI slop" way-too-shiny salad, burger, salad, bowl of soup, curry, ramen, etc. could look QUITE disturbing.

 

[user478318]

I honestly don't think bots can be as hateful as real people.

So true. I don't know why TechSpot deleted my comment.

 

[mailpup]

So true. I don't know why TechSpot deleted my comment.

I restored it after realizing my mistake.

 

[Gwyneth Llewelyn]

Social media has been in rapid decay mode since it first launched. You are a long way behind the times

That's true, but since the rate of decay is much slower than the exponential rate of user acquisition, say, from a decade ago, it takes much longer to notice that there are fewer and fewer people online.

A careful analysis might lead to the conclusion that most human users, on average, will never notice a difference between humans and a GPT-based AI...

As such, driving engagement up with 'bots talking to each other — giving the impression that there is a lot of activity going on! — is not necessarily a terrible idea. It's just the equivalent of 'buying likes' on Facebook, to give an example. In the long run, it might become even cheaper than to acquire a 'package of likes' (either directly from Meta's sales department or from third-parties).

In the long run, however, it begs the question of what the point will be of being inside one's own private echo chamber with an audience consisting entirely of bots. Talk about digital solipsism!

And, also, under such circumstances, why should you be on Facebook consuming ads? You can just shortcut the middleman (Facebook in this case) and run your own echo chamber locally, free from scrapping algorithms and the like...