Zuck Brags About How Much of Your Facebook, Instagram Posts Will Power His AI
gizmodo.com
Social media companies claim to own your online profiles, and now they're generating billions by using them to train AI.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/11642180

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.

  • BurningnnTree@lemmy.oneEnglish
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    9 months ago

    I’ve been thinking lately about how someone could use AI to make a “social network” site that works just like Facebook, except the user is the only real person and everyone else is AI. The AI users would respond very favorably to everything you post, and all of your posts would go viral. It would be kind of like an AI girlfriend, except instead of providing companionship, it would make you feel like you’re famous and popular. (I doubt Facebook would want to be associated with a product like that, but I bet someone will make something like that eventually.)

        • Aniki 🌱🌿@lemm.eeEnglish
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          9 months ago

          You could run those models all locally without much fuss. You don’t need an entire chatGPT model to simulate the banality of social media.

          • nilloc@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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            9 months ago

            Oooo yeah, sell it as offline/private social medial to the preppers. If we can make sure the algorithms gently steer people away from extremism over time, I think we could save the world.

            • Aniki 🌱🌿@lemm.eeEnglish
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              9 months ago

              Thats a great idea! We make a social network and entice all the worst that the world has to offer and then use AI and algos in an anti-facebook kinda way where you drive only positive engagement and create false personas that uses subtle but increasingly positive messaging as a sort of deprogramming.

    • elrik@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      9 months ago

      Users would get bored quickly. The most engaging content on social media tends to be those posts that you disagree with or even anger you.

      The real trick would be to sprinkle in about 40% controversy, 5% trolling and a healthy dash of nonsensical hate posting.

      You need to give the user a tribe along with an opposition to defend the tribe against.

    • cmbabul@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      9 months ago

      This is a great idea, so great that it might actually cause societal damage and also the death of Elon Musk, which might actually balance out

    • just another dev@lemmy.my-box.devEnglish
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      9 months ago

      That’s okay, it’s not blocked on the routers and phones of all the other people who let Facebook scan their phones with your address in it, or who post photos with you in it.

      Make no mistake - Facebook has a profile on you. You just don’t have the login to it.

  • Arkaelus@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 months ago

    cracks knuckles Time to make a new fake account and nuke them with shitposting and Grandma Memes!

    • Buddahriffic@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      9 months ago

      Yeah, an AI is only as good as it’s training, so they are just going to end up with the worst AI. I bet there will be a ShitFacebookAISays community or something like that soon after the public gains access to it.

  • Sanctus@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 months ago

    I still use messenger cause all my friends are there. I have it on its own device because yuck. It might be time to abandon them and say if they want DnD updates they need to come to Matrix.

    • Aniki 🌱🌿@lemm.eeEnglish
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      9 months ago

      you can always use mbasic on mobile without having to install an app. That’s how i do it with firefox and the facebook container extension with the facebook feed blocker extension that still works on mbasic.

  • FaceDeer@kbin.social
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    9 months ago

    Zuckerberg: Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard just ask. I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS

    [Redacted Friend’s Name]: What? How’d you manage that one?

    Zuckerberg: People just submitted it. I don’t know why. They “trust me” Dumb fucks.

    This exchange was from 2004, when Zuckerberg first launched Facebook from his college dorm. Facebook has never pretended to be anything other than what it is, people keep giving it their information, and then they make a surprised-Pikachu face and complain when Facebook does exactly what they’ve always done with it. What Facebook said they would do in the TOS that they agreed to.

    Dumb fucks.

  • kent_eh@lemmy.caEnglish
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    9 months ago

    Someone’s posts might, but not mine…

    Every time Facebook shows up in the news, my desire to create an account drops to a new record low.

    • GBU_28@lemm.eeEnglish
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      9 months ago

      Gpt 3.5 translated that easily

      The given text appears to be written using a substitution cipher, where certain letters are replaced with numbers and symbols. Here’s the translation to English: “I guess we should start speaking”

      • Siegfried@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        9 months ago

        bk nbwo ud iywqr krlqoa mh vjldngahae

        Its encrypted with an enigma machine, M3 UKW B VI 1 1 I 17 1 III 12 1

  • TherouxSonfeir@lemm.eeEnglish
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    9 months ago

    Well, people gave him the data and signed his agreement, so this should be expected. And honestly, this is a far better use of the data than selling it to people, which they are also doing. I have no interest in meta and I won’t ever use what they make, but I’m interested in machine learning getting better. Of course this is Meta so whatever they make is going to eventually be a bad idea. Hopefully it’s not skynet. 🤞

    • Aniki 🌱🌿@lemm.eeEnglish
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      9 months ago

      I have both and don’t update them ever so that they can’t make a fake profile for me that I cannot control.