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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by Lovely_sombrero@hexbear.net to c/technology@hexbear.net

It looks like Meta is doing another innovation, where they don't give a fuck and show ads to millions of fake users who are doing obviously fake AI posts and to millions of obviously fake AI repliers to those fake AI posts, then charge the advertisers for those ads and laugh all the way to the bank.

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[-] Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net 45 points 5 months ago

Dead internet theory is real, folks.

[-] Mardoniush@hexbear.net 19 points 5 months ago

Has been for at least 18 months according to the internal white papers of the ad agencies that forgot to revoke my email subscriptions.

[-] Owl@hexbear.net 6 points 5 months ago

Was there some sort of major pivot in that timeframe?

[-] Mardoniush@hexbear.net 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I mean...its just a combination of AI and the already bot ridden race to the bottom of digital marketing. Everyone is just trying to stop their clients from realising their ads have no effect unless they're a major brand that can afford the big bucks.

Every major ad serving platform is provably lying on their stats and the ad agencies are double lying.

[-] FloridaBoi@hexbear.net 2 points 5 months ago
[-] Mardoniush@hexbear.net 6 points 5 months ago

Here's some stats

88% of ad interactions are by bots, after anti bot measures are taken into account

Almost all advertising (>98%) online outside of product placement with influencers has 0 effect on sales.

Those advertising efforts that do have effects are either a)remarketing or b)entirely within major established brands.

This is true over almost all industries and in both b2c and b2b verticals, physical, ecom, and SaSS.

[-] FloridaBoi@hexbear.net 4 points 5 months ago

Fuckkkkk marketing is vibes

[-] noussommesenmarche@hexbear.net 39 points 5 months ago

There's so much of this shit on FB now- genuinely got a kick out of this one tho

[-] the_itsb@hexbear.net 42 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

What the actual fuck

What is her breathing tube connected to?? The fucking ocean? The sky?

There's just so much going on here and all of it is so very, deeply wrong

Edit: upon reflection, I'd rather see hundreds of fucked up pornographic AI images than even 5 more of these, these are just so incredibly fucked. The idea of a machine feeding on images of babies suffering and then spitting back up new babies suffering just really, really deeply bothers me.

[-] Lovely_sombrero@hexbear.net 11 points 5 months ago

It is not about suffering even! The image is supposed to actually be "It is my birthday" engagement farming from an account that posts stuff like that all the time.

The AI is just stupid, so it isn't able to correctly take an average of children birthday photos and is instead doing an average of random photos of children. It is so insane that AI now means... this. In the past, AI is supposed to mean an actual artificial intelligence, now it just means whatever this crap is. More generalized algorithms, I guess?

[-] Lovely_sombrero@hexbear.net 15 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

There are like 3 similar pictures circling the interwebs. Most of the replies are just like "happy birthday" or "so nice" from other bot accounts.

[-] panned_cakes@hexbear.net 8 points 5 months ago

Have you seen the ai relatable memes and their bots circulating Reddit?

[-] RedDawn@hexbear.net 9 points 5 months ago

The image is horrifying but I laughed at it too - it’s so bad it almost makes me feel a sense of relief that this “AI” is not all it’s cracked up to be.

[-] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 35 points 5 months ago

What the fuck even is this picture.

God, if AI ever becomes sentient it will think we are so discusting

[-] Lovely_sombrero@hexbear.net 17 points 5 months ago

This is not even the worst one. There are pictures that show what looks like a drowned baby holding a similar sign, also with ~300k likes.

[-] the_itsb@hexbear.net 10 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

a drowned baby holding a similar sign

I absolutely do not want a link, but unfortunately, I fucking need it to wrap my brain around this cursed sentence

please harm me with this link, I need to understand, and I recognize the cognitohazard

edit: found one in these very comments - it will definitely haunt my nightmares

[-] callTheQuestion@hexbear.net 26 points 5 months ago

this is the vilest image ive ever seen

[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 14 points 5 months ago
[-] the_itsb@hexbear.net 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I would have agreed, and then I found out OP has access to worse

here's a "drowned" one, courtesy of some other poor unfortunate soul

my fucking eyes

[-] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 21 points 5 months ago
[-] Rx_Hawk@hexbear.net 18 points 5 months ago

Can't even be bothered to exploit real suffering people for content smh

[-] Pentacat@hexbear.net 10 points 5 months ago

I don’t think Zuckerberg acknowledges the suffering of real people anywhere.

[-] ta00000@hexbear.net 17 points 5 months ago

This is like the worst AI image I've seen in the last year

[-] Dessa@hexbear.net 16 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Facebook is absolutely crawling with this shit. 5000 like posts on the most random shit but 0 hahas, There's not a goddamn thing on the internet that some haters won't haha react to.

And you get like 3 posts from friends at the top, a few from groups, then literally every other post is "suggested for you" shit like this.Sometimes you get 2 or 3 in a row. It's a ducking crypt in there.

Yes, the interney is flush with bots everywhere, but I haven't found any site that is as vad as Facebook. I quit that shit a month ago because my friends don't even post anymore and if they do, I don't see it. Just fake shit and ads and ads and ads.

[-] Xx_Aru_xX@hexbear.net 6 points 5 months ago

The most annoying thing about facebook is the "you may know this person notification" the loudest fucking notification ever only to show you a porn bot

[-] Pentacat@hexbear.net 14 points 5 months ago

Is Hillary Clinton just out of frame, lying on the ground sucking this kid’s blood out through the straw gizmo on their right leg?

[-] FuckyWucky@hexbear.net 12 points 5 months ago
[-] supafuzz@hexbear.net 12 points 5 months ago

🙏🙏🙏

[-] CarbonScored@hexbear.net 11 points 5 months ago

Is there not enough real human suffering in the world to monetize? Fucks sake capitalists would even automate the job of dying in poverty if it meant a penny of profit.

[-] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 11 points 5 months ago

What? It could totally be their birthlday.

[-] Guamer@hexbear.net 11 points 5 months ago

They were dangerously low on Leg Juice, crucial to survival

[-] dinklesplein@hexbear.net 9 points 5 months ago

zuckerberg is desperate to be the machine learning leader, facebook has like the most or second most A100s purchased from NVIDIA and he seems really obsessed with the idea of LlaMa being a GPT competitor.

(i would wager oai's huge first mover advantage is too big to surpass for the time being, 'chatGPT' is synonymous with LLMs for laymen even though the model running it is practically obsolete at this point)

[-] FloridaBoi@hexbear.net 7 points 5 months ago

What if instead of paper clips the AI was programmed just to create likes? Ever think about that?

[-] waluigiblunts@hexbear.net 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

please mark this post nsfw

[-] spacecadet@hexbear.net 6 points 5 months ago
[-] D61@hexbear.net 2 points 5 months ago

I haven't seen one of these with children myself... I've only seen the "sexy women amputee asking for somebody to tell them happy birthday/bless me" versions.

[-] LaughingLion@hexbear.net 1 points 5 months ago

god bless amen

[-] Deinonychus@hexbear.net 1 points 5 months ago
[-] HexReplyBot@hexbear.net 1 points 5 months ago

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