Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2024/05/01/facebook-stuffing-users-feeds-with-ai-generated-images-of-starving-drowning-bruised-and-mutilated-children.html
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That “Zuckerberg metaverse world tour” image still hasn’t gotten old, and its juxtaposition with today’s headline is particularly keen.
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Can someone explain why generating likes for a bot account is useful to the person behind it? How does getting ppl to like these horrific images (why?!) result in money for the person behind the scheme?
Or is this someone generating the images for their own sick purposes or to test for releasing CSAM?
I am genuinely clueless. Ditched FB over a decade ago and do not regret it.
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That sounds like a particular sort of invitation.
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I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. The Zuckerberg metaverse world tour etched into polymerized titanium and stored in cool desert caves for future generations to recover. The Zuckerberg metaverse world tour imprinted in quantal pigments on ethylene looms orbiting neutron stars. Kilometer-high mosaics of the Zuckerberg metaverse world tour on the walls of the seraglio of heaven. Found and found again for all time, like shit in a dog park.
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No Facebook, no Facebook problems.
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If you’re on Facebook and see it, screenshot it and find a contact for any advertisements showing so you can show them what their ads are being run next to. Zuckerberg can find what out advertisers will tolerate the same way Musk has.
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My guess is to flood the field with fakes so when the real stuff comes out, say from a war zone, it will be equally dismissed.
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IIRC one reason for running bot accounts is to gather enough followers to make the account valuable and sell it to some other bad actor. It’s grifters and propagandists all the way down.
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Congrats.
My ten year anniversary of not being on FB is in 2027.
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I’ve seen lots of AI generated 'wood cabins" that are just laughable. The comments are full of what I hope are bots saying “love it” or something equally insipid. Makes me think of the Dead internet theory… I wonder what the point is. I am assuming $ is somehow the motivator.
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There’s a whole genre of AI photos of proud sculptors with their wooden sculptures of dogs. They are ripped off from a real photo of a sculptor who used a chainsaw to carve a dog sculpture.
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Except that we’ve seen how shit on facebook is causing real life problems, up to and including acts of genocide.
I never signed up for it in the first place… I was on myspace, and then never signed up for a new social media account after that went under. Glad I didn’t, because it’s turned into a real shitshow.
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Mostly I’d say it’s to sow discord among democracies, and increase polarization wherever possible.
I have an acquaintance IRL who regularly shares AI generated images that ‘prove’ his various wacky conspiracy theories. He’s in his mid 70s and quite convinced of his insider knowledge/ wisdom seeing the ‘obvious’ issues with contrails and vaccines.
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As Zuck and FB had discovered, anything to bring out the worst in people to increase engagement is good for business. FB is not the exception on this. The whole media landscape is complicit in this for a long time with their eyeballs for ads revenue model. FB is the worst not because of how they do it alone but their scale, reach, and intensity amplify are second to none in recent history.
You have to wonder why the guy built a doomday bunker. He knows exactly what could happen of his own making.
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I had an account there for about a week and a half about 15 years ago. I created it, and immediately got ‘friend’ requests from a dozen people I had never heard of. That freaked me out a bit, so I nuked the account. I haven’t missed having it.
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Same.
I went back a few years ago and deleted my account that hadn’t been used in ages.
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Well, I see they have worked out the problem with fingers in a few of those “pics”. Gulp.
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I left FB 2-3 years ago/ Don’t miss it at all. Have fun, suckers.
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