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I feel like the question I want to ask is "Why do we need AI-Profiles?" Like, I can barely be bothered to keep in touch with my friends and family. Why do I nee

by xracy 2y ago

I feel like the question I want to ask is "Why do we need AI-Profiles?" Like, I can barely be bothered to keep in touch with my friends and family. Why do I need a fake person to be follow on social media? What purpose does it serve? What possibly comes out of this that is positive?

xigoi 2y ago
So that you get attached to a person who only exists on Facebook, therefore you spend more time on Facebook and see more ads.
add-sub-mul-div 2y ago
You're right, it's not meant to be a positive outcome for you. It's meant to keep people on Facebook longer so more ad impressions can be delivered. In this case, eventually, conversationally.
andrepd 2y ago
Half of Internet traffic is bots. Half of webpages are written by bots. It's just the logical conclusion.
kraftman 2y ago
Its the other way around. It's about giving people the attention they need exactly because they dont keep in touch any more, so they have a reason to come back to the platform.
- jazzyjackson 2y ago
  Quite a long ways from "give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together", unless you consider homogenizing behavior through interacting with a borgbot "bringing us closer together"
quest88 2y ago
Unlimited content without needing to pay out humans in rev share.
- thimabi 2y ago
  99% of humans who make content for Meta’s platforms receive no revenue from them. In fact, some of them actually pay the platforms for greater reach. Even without AI personas, Meta can surely have its cake and eat it too.
pndy 2y ago
meta probably aims at people getting intimate (as in talking to a friend or family member) to get the usual outcome - getting data that will made ads more accurate. There's nothing positive about that at all.
agilob 2y ago
>I feel like the question I want to ask is "Why do we need AI-Profiles?" Remember when in 2013, 2015 and in 2020 Facebook was caught faking/inflating ad-view numbers so they would charge their customers more? Now AI viewing an ad is a feature and you want to pay for it.

by xracy 2y ago

xigoi 2y ago

So that you get attached to a person who only exists on Facebook, therefore you spend more time on Facebook and see more ads.

add-sub-mul-div 2y ago

You're right, it's not meant to be a positive outcome for you. It's meant to keep people on Facebook longer so more ad impressions can be delivered. In this case, eventually, conversationally.

andrepd 2y ago

Half of Internet traffic is bots. Half of webpages are written by bots. It's just the logical conclusion.

kraftman 2y ago

Its the other way around. It's about giving people the attention they need exactly because they dont keep in touch any more, so they have a reason to come back to the platform.

jazzyjackson 2y ago
Quite a long ways from "give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together", unless you consider homogenizing behavior through interacting with a borgbot "bringing us closer together"

quest88 2y ago

Unlimited content without needing to pay out humans in rev share.

thimabi 2y ago
99% of humans who make content for Meta’s platforms receive no revenue from them. In fact, some of them actually pay the platforms for greater reach. Even without AI personas, Meta can surely have its cake and eat it too.

pndy 2y ago

meta probably aims at people getting intimate (as in talking to a friend or family member) to get the usual outcome - getting data that will made ads more accurate. There's nothing positive about that at all.

agilob 2y ago

>I feel like the question I want to ask is "Why do we need AI-Profiles?" Remember when in 2013, 2015 and in 2020 Facebook was caught faking/inflating ad-view numbers so they would charge their customers more? Now AI viewing an ad is a feature and you want to pay for it.