Guest Jason Koebler discusses Facebook's AI destruction, lack of moderation, valuable company status. AI-generated images, viral content like shrimp Jesus, flood images distort reality. Dark side of AI in metaverse, social media moderation by bots. Edinburgh show, live events, website promotion, gratitude towards Jason Koebler.
Facebook's platform is overrun by AI-generated content leading to bizarre images and viral misinformation.
Creators exploit AI-generated content for financial gains through ads, pages, and monetization schemes.
Facebook's shift to AI-driven algorithms compromises moderation, promoting addictive scrolling and surreal interactions.
Deep dives
AI Generated Content Takes Over Facebook's Platform
Facebook's platform is now flooded with AI-generated content, showcasing bizarre and viral images like shrimp Jesus and uncensored content that has surpassed Facebook's past safety standards. A shift toward a 'for you' page algorithm has led to prioritizing engagement over authentic content, resulting in a surge of inauthentic interactions and viral misinformation. The widespread adoption of AI-generated articles and imagery has created a surreal and detached virtual environment, highlighting potential risks in the unmonitored dissemination of such content.
Commercialization and Monetization Strategies Behind AI-Generated Content
Creators and marketers utilize AI-generated content, including AI-generated ads and promoted pages, to drive engagement on Facebook. The proliferation of AI-generated images and text serves as a gateway to monetization tactics such as drop shipping schemes, ad-packed pages, and black market sales of Facebook pages. The business model capitalizes on AI's ability to attract followers, generate interactions, and foster AI-infused interactions by exploiting user engagement for financial gains.
Impact of Algorithm Changes on User Experience and Content Policing
Facebook's algorithmic shift towards a 'for you' page model and increased reliance on AI interventions have transformed user experiences, promoting addictive scrolling and maximizing content exposure. The platform's decreased content moderation, highlighted by a decline in removal of extremist, pornographic, or AI-generated content, underscores a shift towards automation-driven engagement strategies, leading to a compromised social networking environment.
Evolution of Facebook to a 'Zombie Internet' Phenomenon
The prevalence of inauthentic and AI-generated content on Facebook reflects a transformation into a 'Zombie Internet' wherein hacked accounts and deceased users' profiles are leveraged to promote spam, disinformation, and advertisement. The platform's deficient content moderation policies, decreased human intervention, and focus on AI-driven engagement have cultivated a network inundated with bots, hijacked accounts, and surreal interactions.
Concerns and Speculation Surrounding Facebook's Platform Evolution
The escalating dominance of AI-generated content, compromised content moderation practices, and transition towards algorithm-driven engagement raise critical questions about Facebook's future trajectory. Challenges related to privacy breaches, misinformation dissemination, and AI's pervasiveness in content production underline the urgent need for enhanced oversight, ethical considerations, and user protection on the social networking platform.
The cast joins guest Jason Koebler of 404 Media to discuss the recent downward spiral of Facebook, a platform currently being destroyed by AI and a total lack of content moderation that cannot admit the causes of its crisis because it, too, is dumping money into AI. And yet it is among the notionally most valuable companies on earth. But don’t worry—if you die, your account can be hacked and used to post spam bot comments on the worst art you’ve ever seen.
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