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> I would love to use a third-party Instagram app that only shows posts from accounts I follow, but I can’t because Facebook has locked that down The point is

> I would love to use a third-party Instagram app that only shows posts from accounts I follow, but I can’t because Facebook has locked that down The point is that this is a local model. You don't have to use Meta's AI because Meta can't stop you from running a model on your own computer to browse Instagram for you and filter it however you like.

deergomoo 3y ago
Personally I think that, if "model-driven browsing" (for lack of a better term) does take off, we'll see mitigations against it. Not unlike how we currently see mitigations (of mixed effectiveness) against ad-blockers and using things like Puppeteer as scraping tools. I'm sorry to be so pessimistic about it, and I genuinely do hope we see some positives out of this stuff. But I'm becoming increasingly disillusioned with what so much of the software industry has become, and seeing how much of the AI space is led or backed by the tech giants, I can't help but assume the worst.