Investigating AI-Generated Content on Facebook

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This chapter delves into the transition of attention on Facebook over time, exploring the shift from election-related issues to the emergence of AI-generated content. The speaker narrates their venture into researching AI-altered content on Facebook, prompted by the discovery of viral threads featuring modified pictures of dog wood carvings, uncovering a rabbit hole of algorithmic content and transforming their own feed in the process.

Paris Marx is joined by Jason Koebler to discuss the AI-generated spam filling Facebook, how the platform seems to have given up trying to stop it, and where the internet goes from here.

Jason Koebler is the co-host of the 404 Media Podcast.

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The podcast is made in partnership with The Nation. Production is by Eric Wickham. Transcripts are by Brigitte Pawliw-Fry.

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