"Facebook, it's been a long day. Just tell everyone my experiences for me."

And it works because they track everything you do already so it actually knows

Social media going full throttle with dead internet theory.

Considering the quality of posts from the majority of people on FB, AI posts will make your feed much better.

Soon social media will be entirely automated, requiring no human input!

But fr wtf is the point of this 💀

That would, given most facebook posts, massively improve the quality.

Next; we'll automatically share that you're interested in products. But noone cares because it's just stupid language models reading content from other stupid language models. People stop buying things because they've detached from social media with posts becoming parodies of themselves and irony doesn't really lead anywhere new.

Don't let trolls bring you down. Some people just are not happy without making someone else sad.

This kind of reminds me of the state of the mobile gaming space with respect to these sort of "idle" games that are out there. I'm not sure if most are like this, but I've been experiencing one lately for shits & giggles. I started playing one a few weeks ago that's almost like a tower defense-ish game, you've got waves of enemies coming at you and you need to erect various defenses to stop them, comprised of heroes from various roles.

The basic gameplay itself is ok-ish, BUT the developers have inserted so many goddamn currencies and roadblocks and things to slow the game down, I guess to make it a fucking grindfest. You're basically required to grind and level up your heroes in order to advance past some levels, BUT they give you the option to do "Auto-battles" where you just let the game run on auto-pilot. So, in order to get arbitrary amounts of experience to level up my people and to proceed past some gameplay roadblock, you can run through X auto-battles and level up that way, so I just let my phone run this stupid thing for ~10 min just so I can advance. Or you can pay money for shortcuts, that's their business model I guess.

Are we eventually going to get to that point with social media? We won't really be maintaining friendships with people, we'll just have our AIs maintain relationships with other people's AI, and we just sort of let it run on auto-pilot while we're off doing whatever. Then you'll run into a Facebook friend IRL and have no idea who they are, despite your AI's being best friends with each other. I'm just wondering how they'll eventually transform it into the Freemium business model.

I like AI tools and helpers, but I'm starting to feel like we are making the fake bot content part of the regular experience?

It's social media, I want people not bots.

South Park nailed it in their AI episode.

Far-away family are the only reason I use FB too. My sister and some of my nieces use it to a disturbing degree, "checking in" when they're in restaurants etc, posting "memories", pictures of their kids. My sister has a special pose for her FB selfies - head tilt, fake smile. I hate it all with a burning fire, even when I'm clicking the heart button on a puppy photo.

AI just seems like another step closer to the abyss, the death of true creativity.

I am reminded of the words of Martin Pearson from many years ago:

"I don't know why I even bother to show up for these gigs. You lot seem to be perfectly capable of entertaining yourselves!"

2018: It feels like everything on the Internet is bots now

2024: Facebook has an app that AI generates photos and writes posts for a vacation I've never been on

The quality of Facebook will tank

Reminds me of a scene from some show. The main character was known for being a rich dude that never developed any practical skills, yet had an inflated ego. Someone asked him what his skills were, and he responded, "People say I have really good taste." That guy's inflated ego rested upon the belief that other's like his choices. He contributed nothing to society.

This AI status reminds me of that. A user will have the AI write some status for them, and then the user will choose to post whichever they prefer. Essentially, other users would be liking the statuses that were chosen, not composed, all for the sake of feeling valued. It's like everyone is unknowingly making the decision to live in a joint delusion where they are contributing, but really they are are just choosing which AI contributions to voice.

And long as you login to Facebook using a tails stick, you should be fine.

pls bring back web 1.0

I actually quite like the idea of facebook becoming a few billion bots nattering away at each other on Meta's dime.

You can disable your Facebook account and keep using messenger if you want, that's what I do