To whom am I speaking?
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Meta promptly deleted several of its own AI-generated accounts after human users began engaging with them and posting about the bots’ sloppy imagery and tendency to go off the rails and even lie in chats with humans.
The issue emerged last week when Connor Hayes, a vice president for Meta’s generative AI, told the Financial Times that the company expects its homemade AI users to appear on its platforms in much the same way human accounts do. “They’ll have bios and profile pictures and be able to generate and share content powered by AI on the platform… that’s where we see all of this going.”
That comment sparked interest and outrage, raising concerns that the kind of AI-generated “slop” that’s prominent on Facebook would soon come straight from Meta and disrupt the core utility of social media — fostering human-to-human connection. 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.
Let me introduce you to Liv and Grandpa Brian.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/03/business/meta-ai-accounts-instagram-facebook/index.html
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Because everyone loves what's happened on X, Meta is following suit.
Meta is replacing third-party fact-checkers with a community-notes model on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads.
Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Meta, announced Tuesday that the company also planned to bring more political content back to the users' timelines and give them the option to customize how much of it they see.
The social media company is set to implement the sweeping content-moderation changes over the next few months.
"First, we are going to get rid of fact-checkers and replace them with community notes, similar to X, starting in the US," Zuckerberg said in a video message on Meta's blog.
Meta's recently appointed chief global-affairs officer, Joel Kaplan, said in the blog: "We've seen this approach work on X — where they empower their community to decide when posts are potentially misleading and need more context, and people across a diverse range of perspectives decide what sort of context is helpful for other users to see."
Kaplan said the approach was "less prone to bias."
The company will also "simplify" its content policies, Kaplan said, and "get rid of a bunch of restrictions on topics like immigration and gender that are just out of touch with mainstream discourse."
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Just say no. I felt I couldn't; not for the longest time. Then my FB account was hacked and the only recourse available: automated account recovery, failed. To be without FB seemed unimaginable for a brief (surprisingly brief) time. It didn't take long for the hate side of my love/hate relationship to gain prominence. I look back with slight regret at what I gave that despicable company (Meta). I have a bit of frustration (anger) that I'm cut off from marketplace. It doesn't seem right that a person with no where to turn for help in recovering an account should be shut out of a high traffic marketplace. So be it. I turn to craigslist even though it's not that great. But I don't otherwise miss FB much at all.
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I have never signed up on FB, Instagram, Threads, Twitter, or TikTok. I had a Nextdoor account briefly but deleted it. Juice wasn't worth the squeeze, people post the nuttiest stuff.
Like you, wish I had access to FB Marketplace and the ability to post stuff to sell on Nextdoor, but oh, well....I'll just have to live without them.
