Instagram and Facebook have addicted users for the last 20 years, making sure to monetize us through advertisers every step of the way. Now, they’re revisiting your old posts, your special moments, and your big life updates, and using it to create billion-dollar AI tools. Zuckerberg’s braggadocious claim about Meta’s very large dataset comes shortly after The New York Times sued OpenAI over intellectual property. But Meta is pulling an old trick out of its playbook: extracting as much value out of Instagram and Facebook users as humanly possible, and totally owning your online self.
What is this AI going to be good at, shitposting and drama?
There’s another aspect: profiling ! Either for targeted ad, psychological warfare, election manipulation (cambridge analytica style), and and and … !
glad to see i’m not the only one who see’s exactly how this tech will be used.
Now they won’t even need to create political ads, they can generate the most manipulative and effective ones with AI for the highest bidder!
More like a self-obsessed AI with an eating disorders, obsessed with food and conspiracy theories, and a knack for grooming kids.
It’s going to be awful at recognizing sarcasm too.
And sending out candy crush invites
Probably 20% faster at figuring out the meaning of phrases like “kill you in Minecraft”, minus the ability to understand the context of a joke