• @[email protected]
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    25 days ago

    They will probably aim for that, but actually doing so will produce hilarious results. Imagine what would happen to someone who is into BDSM or some other spicy topic. Then meta would generate them a bunch of BDSM buddies that post all sorts of wild stuff all the time.

    My argument is that as Meta matures, it becomes increasingly risk averse, just like large companies tend to. They might still try what you suggested, but after a few PR disasters they’ll tone it down a bit. Maybe after a few iterations, the bots will produce hilarious results as rarely as possible while still being just barely interesting. In other words: harmless and inoffensive.

    • jrs100000
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      25 days ago

      I think they might just let the disasters happen. The end picture looks less like a social network and more like billions of individual humans floating in their own personal fantasy worlds populated almost entirely with AI friends.

      • @[email protected]
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        12 days ago

        Status update: it took only a few minutes for the backlash to happen.

        As users began to sniff out some of Meta’s AI accounts this week, the backlash grew, in part because of the way the AI accounts disingenuously described themselves as actual people with racial and sexual identities.

        source: https://edition.cnn.com/2025/01/03/business/meta-ai-accounts-instagram-facebook/index.html

        Oh, now they have bots that are into all sorts of spicy stuff. Pretty much what I expected.

      • @[email protected]
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        15 days ago

        The current LLMs hallucinations and horror themed pictures have been pretty entertaining already. Sounds like there could be good times ahead if Meta lets the AIs run wild. 🍿