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I'm in a local facebook group for my town where people post hiking pics, bird pics, local business updates, contractor recommendations etc. I am annoyed to see

I'm in a local facebook group for my town where people post hiking pics, bird pics, local business updates, contractor recommendations etc. I am annoyed to see "brain rot" videos starting to take over the page. There is one dude promoting his succulent repotting/resale business and he's posted like 5-8 ai generated surfer dude monkey surfing and partying with his potted succulents just in the last week. I opened the comments expecting to see other people complaining, "hey buddy take your ai-spam elsewhere" but all the comments were "cute!" "adorable" and "love this!" I just ended up blocking this dude but I am sad for humanity lol.

HeinzStuckeIt 1y ago
On modern social media, even if you had a group full of smart and reasonable people, the platform itself is injecting crap that may well drive out many of them. I rececently returned to Reddit since there are no other remaining discussion venues for one of my hobbies. I looked at the new-Reddit interface and shuddered: ads are being shown among comments, and many comments are hidden by defaul because apparently discussion and community brings insufficient engagement for a modern ad-based internet business. Even if I and a tiny, tiny percentage of people are still using the old-Reddit interface, obviously the overall culture there is going to be molded by the default one.
- Espressosaurus 1y ago
  Old reddit is unfortunately just a rounding error. I weep for the day they decide to kill it.
  - noir_lord 1y ago
    I don't, the utility of reddit has declined over time for me but there are still a handful of reddits that I enjoy but them killing old.reddit.com is absolutely what will push me off the platform entirely. Though at this point I spend (or waste depending on PoV) much less time on reddit than I used to.
  - dingnuts 1y ago
    weep? I'd finally be free. I wish this site would disappear too. Whoever designed these algorithms got me good, at a young age, and I don't think these sites have been a net positive overall or on me personally
    - entropie 1y ago
      Iam nearly 15 years on reddit now and I would miss it if i cant use old. or a good client. Iam sure sooner or later it will happen and ill most probably leave. Reddits quality went downhill over the years but there is more or less no successor/competitor. It will be over and buried forever. Eternal september gets them all. Side note: be free if you want to and dont make it dependent on decisions others do for you.
      - seesaw 1y ago
        I am in the same boat. I think I will get a lot more of time back if they kill old
    - ASalazarMX 1y ago
      We are already free. If we keep returning to a few subreddits, it's because we can't find an equivalent community elsewhere. If they kill the old interface, we'll eventually use the new one if there are no other alternatives, no need to lie to ourselves.
      - webspinner 1y ago
        Nah, I just leave. Because I want too, and because I don't like Reddit's AI training ppolicies.
  - webspinner 1y ago
    I'm sure they're going to eventually. They say they won't, but they deprecated private messages. Yeah, I did use those lol.
- sssilver 1y ago
  My favorite Reddit UX scam is that you tap on comments to collapse them along with their children, UNLESS they’re an ad that masks itself exactly like a comment in which case you tap it with the intent of collapsing it, but instead you inadvertently increase RDDT shareholder value (at the expense of the time you waste closing the webview)!
  - anoncow 1y ago
    If I accidentally did it Adsense would ban me.
    - webspinner 1y ago
      Do it anyway! Then you have a case against them.
  - frank_nitti 1y ago
    Not to mention that, at least on the iOS app, the button to close an ad is in a totally different place than the rest of the UI screens, which is always in the top-left of the screen. A small “X” is placed in the middle-left of the ad image, to make you spend an extra second finding it, which I would assume they are happy to report as a user engagement metric to their advertisers.
  - amarcheschi 1y ago
    I think it's possible to remove ads with reddit revanced
  - spicybright 1y ago
    I refuse to use reddit with it's modern UI. Once old.reddit.com dies I'm hanging up my spurs
    - Loughla 1y ago
      I left when they killed 3rd party app access. Honestly even the curated subs I was a part of were pretty toxic or echo-chambery now that I've had time to look back
- rurp 1y ago
  I don't know how anyone can use the official reddit mobile app for more than 5 minutes. Between the ads and terrible interface it's an awful experience. But I also hate facebook so I'm clearly not the target audience for this stuff. RedReader is a much better interface but lately has been having issues for me so I just haven't been using reddit. If and when they kill that client I'll be done with the platform.
  - webspinner 1y ago
    I hate Facebook with a passion! Mostly because my family is there, and they're constant lecturers.
- derbOac 1y ago
  Maybe I'm in the minority, but with ad blockers I never see ads on Reddit. I honestly don't think I've ever seen an ad on Reddit at all, with a tiny exception for ads for other Reddit offerings, which is very recent for me. Not saying they're not on there, but the ad blockers must be doing a pretty good job on that site.
  - webspinner 1y ago
    I don't usually see them either!
- shortrounddev2 1y ago
  I first joined reddit in 2010 because it was the best place to see other people's minecraft creations. I no longer have an account but by far the most commonly suggested videos for me when I view the front page without an account are 1. Car crashes 2. Street/bum fights 3. Conspiracy theory content (UFOs, Anti-vax, chemtrails) 4. Anti-semitic videos (one such video was titled "Kanye was right about everything") 5. Anti-muslim videos (weirdly I get a lot of Indian majority subreddits that post a lot of hate videos about Pakistan/Muslims) Every single one of these categories produces feelings of outrage. Reddit has just become a fucking hate machine. Not just hate toward other races, but hate toward the entire human race. Every video shows someone doing some anti-social shit, like people driving like total assholes, or running people over, or getting hit by a train after cutting off traffic, or beating each other senseless in public. In the 1990s there was a huge outcry over violence in media because of Mortal Kombat, Doom, and The Matrix, but here we are today watching actual people die on dashcams regularly. This has to be just bad for us on a really primal level
  - webspinner 1y ago
    OK maybe try to escape the algorithm? This is different with Reddit, though. You'd have to figure out which settings you need to change.
  - Mountain_Skies 1y ago
    It's wild how many fan subreddits end up turning into hate boards for the sub's alleged purpose.
  - yen223 1y ago
    People thought video games would turn people violent, turns out it was social media that did it
  - noAnswer 1y ago
    When I visit Youtube in a privat tab from my German IP all I get is "be afraid of the other" alt right "vote for AFD", "chemtrails are here to get you" kind of videos. Not a singel "cute cat" or "interesting science fact" in sight. :-( It's almost as if they like the population to be afraid.
- stdclass 1y ago
  > since there are no other remaining discussion venues for one of my hobbies maybe you find a suitable board on 4chan
  - webspinner 1y ago
    Lol or just create one.
- webspinner 1y ago
  I'm leaving Reddit because of all this!
- kevin_thibedeau 1y ago
  There are Firefox extensions that monkeypatch the old UI with usability enhancements and force a redirect for all reddit links.
  - webspinner 1y ago
    You bet there are, and I use them regularly. The ones I need, anyway.
- damnesian 1y ago
  I never use the app, only login to old. and when old is taken away, I will take my marbles and go home.
  - webspinner 1y ago
    I don't either! Mostly because I don't use many apps anyway. I like the web.
- port11 1y ago
  My theory is that Reddit as a community-builder died when their moderator crisis started, prompted by the API pricing issue. I swear I haven't seen a funny, Redditesque thread since then. No copypastas, none of the old memes. It's all slop, meaningless comments, and generic content these days. Endless reposts. I don't know what happened to Reddit…
knicholes 1y ago
I've found a page on Facebook that regularly posts single white mothers with black babies on supposed dating profiles with very demanding requirements for men. The comments are loaded with people saying that they deserve their current situation, enforcing racial stereotypes, etc. It's not hard to see that these are AI generated, as there are maybe 5-8 posts a day like this, and the images are pretty clearly AI generated. Regardless, they get the engagement, and they sell the shirts. Easy way to automate a business, I guess, but at what cost?!
- stuartjohnson12 1y ago
  Could you give me some searching clues to hunt down this or a similar profile?
  - ekidd 1y ago
    Several of the Reddit "AmITheAsshole"-style subs have a significant number of posts which are either AI or sloppy creative writing. Mass-produced outrage bait isn't new, and it's available in a thousand flavors. But AI has accelerated this process, at least for people who don't notice when they're getting played (or who don't want to notice).
  - HeinzStuckeIt 1y ago
    I don't have a link, but I have seen exactly what he's talking about, which probably means that it is an established business model and multiple actors are doing it. A similar thing I have randomly come across multiple times on YouTube are videos consisting of a still AI image of a white person mistreating a black person (e.g. a white police officer screaming with rage at a black man eating in a diner) and an AI voiceover text telling a GPT-generated story hashtagged #heartwarming, e.g. "The white police officer was violent against the black man... What he didn't know was this was a highly decorated veteran!" Some of these are clearly getting picked up by the algorithm and drawing hundreds of thousands of views. The factories behind these are probably halfway around the world but realized the race relations of a large economy can be exploited for profit or geopolitics.
  - randycupertino 1y ago
wslh 1y ago
Just a few hours ago, I was trying to find the profile of an excellent swimmer I met at dinner yesterday. I knew his first name and the club he swims in, so I searched his name together with the club and "swimming" on Instagram without using the keyword club. Almost all the results were attractive girls posing in swimsuits, but none were actual amateur swimmers. The guy I was looking for didn't appear at all. BTW, mi Instagram account is just a placeholder and I can't imagine an algorithm suggesting that content. It seems like a default suggestion.
- daveguy 1y ago
  > ...I can't imagine an algorithm suggesting that content. It seems like a default suggestion. This implies that the default suggestion isn't a data analyzed soup of what people of a given age / location / demographic / search text are most likely to respond to. Even if it is your first time to log on to a platform it is very much algorithm driven.
pier25 1y ago
> all the comments were "cute!" "adorable" and "love this!" Probably bots?
ryandrake 1y ago
I'm pretty surprised by how fooled normal people are by all this AI-sludge, and/or how accepting they are of all this low-effort content. My reaction to this stuff is the same as yours: please don't clog the internet up with all this fake content! But everyone else in my life thinks it's great, and sometimes don't believe me when I point out it's obviously AI generated. I think people are already totally fooled and think it's real.
- mediaman 1y ago
  Cultural antibodies take a long time to develop. In twenty years you will see more common resistance to what's being produced today, but less to whatever new innovation is released then. See, for example, the slowly declining efficacy of banner ads, as each cohort of computer user learned to ignore them but they still retained efficacy on newer vintages of users.
- webspinner 1y ago
  I have the exact same response!
- chemotaxis 1y ago
  > I'm pretty surprised by how fooled normal people are by all this AI-sludge, and/or how accepting they are of all this low-effort content. My reaction to this stuff is the same as yours: please don't clog the internet up with all this fake content! I instinctively want to blame AI, but on some level, I think the problem runs deeper: it's that we are for some reason compelled to consume content where it just doesn't matter if it's real or not. It has no bearing on your life. You just want to spend your time scrolling through heartwarming stories about complete strangers, or through rage-bait that reinforces your political beliefs. Ethically, I see a difference between telling you true stories and lies. But if we're being honest with ourselves... what changes if the kitten rescued from a storm sewer is actually just gen AI? This isn't even a Facebook thing. 24-hour news networks and many newspapers perfected this craft before. Endless streams of celebrity gossip and stories about stranded / rescued pets, written for no reason other than to satisfy this weird craving among the readers. Each step along the way lowers the bar for feeding you the content and allows it to be tailored better, but I don't know what the fix here is. Short of banning the internet and forcing people to go outside more.
Forgeties79 1y ago
Moderators really need to start cracking down on this stuff. If nothing else just posts per week limits or something.
tarsinge 1y ago
Keep in mind the FB algorithm is likely showing you that content more than to others since it might have detected it’d be annoying to you (and that results in better engagement metrics).
thih9 1y ago
Funny to complain about content marketing that happens outside of HN, when content marketing is so popular here. E.g. in this recent 800+ point submission[1] a company presents their product as the ultimate alternative to PaaS, their use case seems shallow and presents their product in positive light only. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45661253 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45661253
- mihaic 1y ago
  I think it's not at all self-contradicting. HN is a niche forum that is all about making things that scale. Most human interactions shouldn't scale, there's no space for them to be absorbed except by other humans. Only the very top should scale down, and that can be done in more ways, some more ethical than others.
yieldcrv 1y ago
> in a local facebook group for my town ... [someone posts AI promos] > I opened the comments expecting to see other people complaining people are less confrontational the more local it is
keiferski 1y ago
I think it’s a generational thing. Younger people don’t really use Facebook very much and are much more active on TikTok and instagram, both of which I would describe as semi-hostile to AI, or at least the kind of lazy slop AI you’re talking about.
Bombthecat 1y ago
The internet will be more and more ai stuff. At the end of the day, people don't care if it's real or not as long as it's either entertaining or tells them what they want to hear.
Mars008 1y ago
Have you seen sci-fi movies? It's all fake! And people are happy with this. Same here, it becomes annoying only after some time. Most didn't get to this point yet. By the time they get quality will be better, so like new again. After that even adults will have hard time telling apart reality from generated. Like little kids believe dreams are true.
yen223 1y ago
Those comments are probably AI as well
- webspinner 1y ago
  I'm actually writing fairly literally lol! If you want me to write more in-depth comments, I sure can! I'm not stupid enough to go generate them like you might be, I suppose. In fact, I think the whole thing is ridiculous, so I try to avoid it entirely!!

HeinzStuckeIt 1y ago

On modern social media, even if you had a group full of smart and reasonable people, the platform itself is injecting crap that may well drive out many of them. I rececently returned to Reddit since there are no other remaining discussion venues for one of my hobbies. I looked at the new-Reddit interface and shuddered: ads are being shown among comments, and many comments are hidden by defaul because apparently discussion and community brings insufficient engagement for a modern ad-based internet business. Even if I and a tiny, tiny percentage of people are still using the old-Reddit interface, obviously the overall culture there is going to be molded by the default one.

Espressosaurus 1y ago
Old reddit is unfortunately just a rounding error. I weep for the day they decide to kill it.
- noir_lord 1y ago
  I don't, the utility of reddit has declined over time for me but there are still a handful of reddits that I enjoy but them killing old.reddit.com is absolutely what will push me off the platform entirely. Though at this point I spend (or waste depending on PoV) much less time on reddit than I used to.
- dingnuts 1y ago
  weep? I'd finally be free. I wish this site would disappear too. Whoever designed these algorithms got me good, at a young age, and I don't think these sites have been a net positive overall or on me personally
  - entropie 1y ago
    Iam nearly 15 years on reddit now and I would miss it if i cant use old. or a good client. Iam sure sooner or later it will happen and ill most probably leave. Reddits quality went downhill over the years but there is more or less no successor/competitor. It will be over and buried forever. Eternal september gets them all. Side note: be free if you want to and dont make it dependent on decisions others do for you.
    - seesaw 1y ago
      I am in the same boat. I think I will get a lot more of time back if they kill old
  - ASalazarMX 1y ago
    We are already free. If we keep returning to a few subreddits, it's because we can't find an equivalent community elsewhere. If they kill the old interface, we'll eventually use the new one if there are no other alternatives, no need to lie to ourselves.
    - webspinner 1y ago
      Nah, I just leave. Because I want too, and because I don't like Reddit's AI training ppolicies.
- webspinner 1y ago
  I'm sure they're going to eventually. They say they won't, but they deprecated private messages. Yeah, I did use those lol.
sssilver 1y ago
My favorite Reddit UX scam is that you tap on comments to collapse them along with their children, UNLESS they’re an ad that masks itself exactly like a comment in which case you tap it with the intent of collapsing it, but instead you inadvertently increase RDDT shareholder value (at the expense of the time you waste closing the webview)!
- anoncow 1y ago
  If I accidentally did it Adsense would ban me.
  - webspinner 1y ago
    Do it anyway! Then you have a case against them.
- frank_nitti 1y ago
  Not to mention that, at least on the iOS app, the button to close an ad is in a totally different place than the rest of the UI screens, which is always in the top-left of the screen. A small “X” is placed in the middle-left of the ad image, to make you spend an extra second finding it, which I would assume they are happy to report as a user engagement metric to their advertisers.
- amarcheschi 1y ago
  I think it's possible to remove ads with reddit revanced
- spicybright 1y ago
  I refuse to use reddit with it's modern UI. Once old.reddit.com dies I'm hanging up my spurs
  - Loughla 1y ago
    I left when they killed 3rd party app access. Honestly even the curated subs I was a part of were pretty toxic or echo-chambery now that I've had time to look back
rurp 1y ago
I don't know how anyone can use the official reddit mobile app for more than 5 minutes. Between the ads and terrible interface it's an awful experience. But I also hate facebook so I'm clearly not the target audience for this stuff. RedReader is a much better interface but lately has been having issues for me so I just haven't been using reddit. If and when they kill that client I'll be done with the platform.
- webspinner 1y ago
  I hate Facebook with a passion! Mostly because my family is there, and they're constant lecturers.
derbOac 1y ago
Maybe I'm in the minority, but with ad blockers I never see ads on Reddit. I honestly don't think I've ever seen an ad on Reddit at all, with a tiny exception for ads for other Reddit offerings, which is very recent for me. Not saying they're not on there, but the ad blockers must be doing a pretty good job on that site.
- webspinner 1y ago
  I don't usually see them either!
shortrounddev2 1y ago
I first joined reddit in 2010 because it was the best place to see other people's minecraft creations. I no longer have an account but by far the most commonly suggested videos for me when I view the front page without an account are 1. Car crashes 2. Street/bum fights 3. Conspiracy theory content (UFOs, Anti-vax, chemtrails) 4. Anti-semitic videos (one such video was titled "Kanye was right about everything") 5. Anti-muslim videos (weirdly I get a lot of Indian majority subreddits that post a lot of hate videos about Pakistan/Muslims) Every single one of these categories produces feelings of outrage. Reddit has just become a fucking hate machine. Not just hate toward other races, but hate toward the entire human race. Every video shows someone doing some anti-social shit, like people driving like total assholes, or running people over, or getting hit by a train after cutting off traffic, or beating each other senseless in public. In the 1990s there was a huge outcry over violence in media because of Mortal Kombat, Doom, and The Matrix, but here we are today watching actual people die on dashcams regularly. This has to be just bad for us on a really primal level
- webspinner 1y ago
  OK maybe try to escape the algorithm? This is different with Reddit, though. You'd have to figure out which settings you need to change.
- Mountain_Skies 1y ago
  It's wild how many fan subreddits end up turning into hate boards for the sub's alleged purpose.
- yen223 1y ago
  People thought video games would turn people violent, turns out it was social media that did it
- noAnswer 1y ago
  When I visit Youtube in a privat tab from my German IP all I get is "be afraid of the other" alt right "vote for AFD", "chemtrails are here to get you" kind of videos. Not a singel "cute cat" or "interesting science fact" in sight. :-( It's almost as if they like the population to be afraid.
stdclass 1y ago
> since there are no other remaining discussion venues for one of my hobbies maybe you find a suitable board on 4chan
- webspinner 1y ago
  Lol or just create one.
webspinner 1y ago
I'm leaving Reddit because of all this!
kevin_thibedeau 1y ago
There are Firefox extensions that monkeypatch the old UI with usability enhancements and force a redirect for all reddit links.
- webspinner 1y ago
  You bet there are, and I use them regularly. The ones I need, anyway.
damnesian 1y ago
I never use the app, only login to old. and when old is taken away, I will take my marbles and go home.
- webspinner 1y ago
  I don't either! Mostly because I don't use many apps anyway. I like the web.
port11 1y ago
My theory is that Reddit as a community-builder died when their moderator crisis started, prompted by the API pricing issue. I swear I haven't seen a funny, Redditesque thread since then. No copypastas, none of the old memes. It's all slop, meaningless comments, and generic content these days. Endless reposts. I don't know what happened to Reddit…

knicholes 1y ago

I've found a page on Facebook that regularly posts single white mothers with black babies on supposed dating profiles with very demanding requirements for men. The comments are loaded with people saying that they deserve their current situation, enforcing racial stereotypes, etc. It's not hard to see that these are AI generated, as there are maybe 5-8 posts a day like this, and the images are pretty clearly AI generated. Regardless, they get the engagement, and they sell the shirts. Easy way to automate a business, I guess, but at what cost?!

stuartjohnson12 1y ago
Could you give me some searching clues to hunt down this or a similar profile?
- ekidd 1y ago
  Several of the Reddit "AmITheAsshole"-style subs have a significant number of posts which are either AI or sloppy creative writing. Mass-produced outrage bait isn't new, and it's available in a thousand flavors. But AI has accelerated this process, at least for people who don't notice when they're getting played (or who don't want to notice).
- HeinzStuckeIt 1y ago
  I don't have a link, but I have seen exactly what he's talking about, which probably means that it is an established business model and multiple actors are doing it. A similar thing I have randomly come across multiple times on YouTube are videos consisting of a still AI image of a white person mistreating a black person (e.g. a white police officer screaming with rage at a black man eating in a diner) and an AI voiceover text telling a GPT-generated story hashtagged #heartwarming, e.g. "The white police officer was violent against the black man... What he didn't know was this was a highly decorated veteran!" Some of these are clearly getting picked up by the algorithm and drawing hundreds of thousands of views. The factories behind these are probably halfway around the world but realized the race relations of a large economy can be exploited for profit or geopolitics.
- randycupertino 1y ago

wslh 1y ago

Just a few hours ago, I was trying to find the profile of an excellent swimmer I met at dinner yesterday. I knew his first name and the club he swims in, so I searched his name together with the club and "swimming" on Instagram without using the keyword club. Almost all the results were attractive girls posing in swimsuits, but none were actual amateur swimmers. The guy I was looking for didn't appear at all. BTW, mi Instagram account is just a placeholder and I can't imagine an algorithm suggesting that content. It seems like a default suggestion.

daveguy 1y ago
> ...I can't imagine an algorithm suggesting that content. It seems like a default suggestion. This implies that the default suggestion isn't a data analyzed soup of what people of a given age / location / demographic / search text are most likely to respond to. Even if it is your first time to log on to a platform it is very much algorithm driven.

pier25 1y ago

> all the comments were "cute!" "adorable" and "love this!" Probably bots?

ryandrake 1y ago

I'm pretty surprised by how fooled normal people are by all this AI-sludge, and/or how accepting they are of all this low-effort content. My reaction to this stuff is the same as yours: please don't clog the internet up with all this fake content! But everyone else in my life thinks it's great, and sometimes don't believe me when I point out it's obviously AI generated. I think people are already totally fooled and think it's real.

mediaman 1y ago
Cultural antibodies take a long time to develop. In twenty years you will see more common resistance to what's being produced today, but less to whatever new innovation is released then. See, for example, the slowly declining efficacy of banner ads, as each cohort of computer user learned to ignore them but they still retained efficacy on newer vintages of users.
webspinner 1y ago
I have the exact same response!
chemotaxis 1y ago
> I'm pretty surprised by how fooled normal people are by all this AI-sludge, and/or how accepting they are of all this low-effort content. My reaction to this stuff is the same as yours: please don't clog the internet up with all this fake content! I instinctively want to blame AI, but on some level, I think the problem runs deeper: it's that we are for some reason compelled to consume content where it just doesn't matter if it's real or not. It has no bearing on your life. You just want to spend your time scrolling through heartwarming stories about complete strangers, or through rage-bait that reinforces your political beliefs. Ethically, I see a difference between telling you true stories and lies. But if we're being honest with ourselves... what changes if the kitten rescued from a storm sewer is actually just gen AI? This isn't even a Facebook thing. 24-hour news networks and many newspapers perfected this craft before. Endless streams of celebrity gossip and stories about stranded / rescued pets, written for no reason other than to satisfy this weird craving among the readers. Each step along the way lowers the bar for feeding you the content and allows it to be tailored better, but I don't know what the fix here is. Short of banning the internet and forcing people to go outside more.

Forgeties79 1y ago

Moderators really need to start cracking down on this stuff. If nothing else just posts per week limits or something.

tarsinge 1y ago

Keep in mind the FB algorithm is likely showing you that content more than to others since it might have detected it’d be annoying to you (and that results in better engagement metrics).

thih9 1y ago

Funny to complain about content marketing that happens outside of HN, when content marketing is so popular here. E.g. in this recent 800+ point submission[1] a company presents their product as the ultimate alternative to PaaS, their use case seems shallow and presents their product in positive light only. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45661253 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45661253

mihaic 1y ago
I think it's not at all self-contradicting. HN is a niche forum that is all about making things that scale. Most human interactions shouldn't scale, there's no space for them to be absorbed except by other humans. Only the very top should scale down, and that can be done in more ways, some more ethical than others.

yieldcrv 1y ago

> in a local facebook group for my town ... [someone posts AI promos] > I opened the comments expecting to see other people complaining people are less confrontational the more local it is

keiferski 1y ago

I think it’s a generational thing. Younger people don’t really use Facebook very much and are much more active on TikTok and instagram, both of which I would describe as semi-hostile to AI, or at least the kind of lazy slop AI you’re talking about.

Bombthecat 1y ago

The internet will be more and more ai stuff. At the end of the day, people don't care if it's real or not as long as it's either entertaining or tells them what they want to hear.

Mars008 1y ago

Have you seen sci-fi movies? It's all fake! And people are happy with this. Same here, it becomes annoying only after some time. Most didn't get to this point yet. By the time they get quality will be better, so like new again. After that even adults will have hard time telling apart reality from generated. Like little kids believe dreams are true.

yen223 1y ago

Those comments are probably AI as well

webspinner 1y ago
I'm actually writing fairly literally lol! If you want me to write more in-depth comments, I sure can! I'm not stupid enough to go generate them like you might be, I suppose. In fact, I think the whole thing is ridiculous, so I try to avoid it entirely!!