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bluescreen
tofu eating wokerati
Oh look, they've fired Nick Clegg. And replaced him with Joel Kaplan.
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NoXion
Craicy the Squirrel
That's what I find so crazy about this news. Meta are basically telling all the businesses wanting to advertise on their platforms that they are entirely willing to adulterate their services with fake people who will never buy whatever it is advertisers want to sell. The fact that this news hasn't instantly tanked the stock value of Meta to rock bottom is just the latest and most obvious sign that publicly traded companies are now basically a mechanism for scamming investors. There's a Russian word for a concept called vranyo, which can be simply translated as "lying", but which encapsulates something much broader than that. A comprehensive, chronic, constant, and most importantly institutionalised culture of lying that happens at multiple levels to make one look good. The uppermost echelons of the corporate world have clearly been captured by this kind of culture of deceit, and this is reflected in the ridiculous valuations of companies that don't do anything to truly deserve them.
BigMoaner
What A Load of Old Bollocks
Personally think a lot of these platforms are at the “throw things
at the wall and see if they stick” stage of their development. I mean look at google now, so complex, convoluted and bloated.
If the metaverse takes off that’s imo a whole other revolution though that could really take off. Big if though.
NoXion
Craicy the Squirrel
Why? What's the point of an account like that? I feel like Meta could have done this differently and approached the biggest entertainment companies on the planet, offering to licence this technology to them and bring their fictional characters to life, thus demonstrating the concept without even remotely pretending it to be anything like a real person. "Truth-teller"? It's a confection of LLM outputs and image generation; at least I hope those images are generated. It doesn't know what truth is.
Chilli.s
mingling jets and statuettes
I think possibly advertising
PTK
Paul Kegan
Some good points.
PTK
Paul Kegan
I am sure some (real) people will engage with these AI accounts, and find the engagement rewarding.
It was shown years ago that people reacted positively to computerised "therapists".
These AI accounts may well produced more engagement, and therfore create a larger audience for advertisers.
When it comes to online advertising, it amazes me that that adverts are sometimes placed in the middle of music videos on Youtube.
If you are greatly enjoying a piece of music, and an advert interrupts at a crucial point, then you are hardly likely to watch it, and buy the product.
It was shown years ago that people reacted positively to computerised "therapists".
These AI accounts may well produced more engagement, and therfore create a larger audience for advertisers.
When it comes to online advertising, it amazes me that that adverts are sometimes placed in the middle of music videos on Youtube.
If you are greatly enjoying a piece of music, and an advert interrupts at a crucial point, then you are hardly likely to watch it, and buy the product.
"Truth-teller"? It's a confection of LLM outputs and image generation; at least I hope those images are generated. It doesn't know what truth is.
This is what I don't get. It makes sense for NPCs in Meta World or whatever it's called, the Meta Quest thing. But I rarely see even friend's posts on my timeline. The few random other individuals are usually just posting some tedious meme and I scroll past. Who wants to interact with an AI FB account, which will likely just post even more inane dross.
The Metaverse has been around for years though. No one's that interested in VR for long AFAIK. There are technical challenges with battery life, headsets and visual proximity effects sure, there'll be improvements. But what's the apeal of the Metaverse. If I could use VR, wandering round Facebook World would not be on my top 10 escursions...
hitmouse
music obfuscation technology
Really liked this summary from Vicky Osterweil:
www.cawshinythings.com
I Was Promised a More Aesthetically Pleasing Cyberpunk Dystopia
Even the horrors are mid
www.cawshinythings.com
An AI generated image, nested in an AI generated Instagram post, nested in a bluesky post, nested in another bluesky post. How I yearn to find this hideous casserole of signification incoherent
This is the corpo future: tacky, ugly, dangerous and useless, racist and mean and genocidal and senseless. A giant death spiral, intoxicated with the meaninglessness of their own power, hating life but demanding everyone love them for it, trying to make sure we all burn with them.
As they get closer and closer to achieving their death dream, the politics will get more and more vile and nasty, the images and results more incoherent and absurd.
The industrialists and billionaires and tech gurus and all their bootlickers are pathetic; They are out of ideas. The reason so many are inspired by AI isn't only marketing and sunk-cost fallacy, it isn't only the promise of laying off those pesky humans or a lack of information or knowledge. It's because AI produces new images, more images, it creates more and more and more and they are overawed because they have forgotten how to create anything at all.
They are fully lost. They have no territory worth fighting over: we don't want their exurban mcmansions or their identikit condo skyscrapers, their massive lifted Dodge Rams or their rent-by-the-minute e-scooters. Don't get me wrong, we'll take them when it's convenient, but the world worth fighting for doesn't look anything like theirs.
Your bosses are already trying to replace the job you hate with an AI bot screaming "Yasss Qween". You could unionize or you could burn down a data center, but you won't be able to convince them that it's a bad, stupid idea by simply pointing to it. It looks like the future to them, and that's enough.
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