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I announced my divorce on Instagram and then AI impersonated me
- spankibalt 10mo agoBecoming slopulacrum after taking out the slops via insta. Gud lorde...
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- jwr 10mo agoIf we write content for closed platforms known to do terrible things, I guess we should not be surprised when said platforms do terrible things. I keep trying to convince people not to use Instagram, WhatsApp, Facebook, Twitter/X, but I'm not getting anywhere. Write your own content and post it on your own terms using services that you either own or that can't be overtaken by corporate greed (like Mastodon).
- pmlnr 10mo agoSo many thoughts on this... The platforms and their convenience that one "only" has to write the post yet the internet needs so much metadata, so it tried to autogenerate it, instead of asking for it. People are put off by need to write a bloody subject for an email already, imagine if they were shown what's actually the "content" is. About convincing: get the few that matters on deltachat, so they don't need anything new or extra - it's just email on steroids. As for Mastodon: it's still someone else's system, there's nothing stopping them from adding AI metadata either on those nodes.
- saubeidl 10mo agoWhy deltachat, an app I've never heard of before instead of Signal, which is also open source and at least has a bit of traction?
- nunobrito 10mo agoNot even knowing what deltachat is, however Signal was suspected from the start of being developed by the NSA (read the story about the founder and the funding from the CIA) and later received tens of million USD each year from the US government to keep running. So it is never advisable option when the goal is to acquire some sense of privacy.
- normie3000 10mo ago> it is never advisable option when the goal is to acquire some sense of privacy. Would this depend on threat model?
- nunobrito 10mo agoNowadays even YouTube comments are more anonymous than using a "deltachat" or "signal". On the first case there is zero verification on their claims, on the second case there is plenty of evidence of funding from the CIA. At least commenting from an unknown account on any random youtube video won't land you immediately at a "Person of Interest" list and your comments will be ignored as a drop of water inside an ocean of comments.
- c22 10mo agoIt's been a while since I looked at it but as far as I know delta chat is just email so it's as anonymous as your email account I'd gather.
- lukan 10mo ago"read the story about the founder and the funding from the CIA" And where can I find such a story from a trusworthy source? Quick google search rather turned up this: https://euvsdisinfo.eu/report/us-intelligences-services-control-the-signal-app/ https://euvsdisinfo.eu/report/us-intelligences-services-cont... (Debunking it as russian information warfare)
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- vachina 10mo agoUse them as the public toilet they are. Never put in any effort in anything you upload.
- kuschku 10mo agoHow is mastodon someone else's system? You can host your mastodon server just like you can host your email server or matrix server. And other mastodon servers, just like other email servers, can of course still modify the data they receive how they'd like.
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- darkwater 10mo agoThe OP is also on Mastodon already, but social networks are ruled by their gravity well, unfortunately.
- keiferski 10mo agoIndividual actions like this will never do anything, because the average person is not going to spend hours upon hours investigating platforms. They just want an easy way to connect with their friends and family, follow artists, etc. Which is why I think the only solution has to come at the governmental regulatory level. In “freedom” terms it could be framed as freedom from, as in freedom from exploitation, unlawful use of data, etc. but unfortunately freedom to seems to be the most corporate friendly interpretation of freedom.
- anonym29 10mo ago>They just want an easy way to connect with their friends and family You'd be surprised how many people in your life can be introduced to secure messaging apps like Signal (which is still centralized, so not perfect, but a big step in the right direction compared to Whatsapp, Facebook, etc) by YOU refusing to use any other communication apps, and helping them learn how to install and use Signal.
- HiPhish 10mo agoI got my parents and siblings all to use Signal by refusing to use WhatsApp myself. And yet all of them still use WhatsApp to communicate among each other. They have Signal installed, they have an account, they know how to use it, and yet they fall back to WhatsApp. Some people really do want to choose Hell over Heaven.
- anonym29 10mo agoGreat first step either way! The pressure for social conformity is a hell of a drug and I try to have compassion for those suffering from it, even as I try to gently encourage them to grow past it.
- array_key_first 10mo agoThe primary and most important feature of a messaging app is the ability to message a lot of people. Signal is the best messaging app, but not by metrics people use to measure messaging apps, because not a ton of people use it. I use signal, but I also still use SMS (garsp!) because ultimately sometimes I just need to send a message. It sucks and it's stupid, what we need more than anything else, more than any app, is open and federated messaging protocols.
- raincole 10mo agoMost people write to be read. Surely I can write on my own blog, but no one would read them (not that my social media is much more worth reading though.) Plus, what about videos? How is a non-tech savvy creator going to host their content if it's best in video format?
- chistev 10mo ago> I keep trying to convince people not to use Instagram, WhatsApp, Facebook, Twitter/X, I'm with you, but WhatsApp is tough. How do you keep in touch?
- the_other 10mo agoI left Insta the day FB bought it; closed my FB, twitter, and Google accounts a couple of years later; WA was the hardest to leave, I'll grant. Since I left, I've used: phone; email; Signal; Telegram; letters; post cards; meeting up in person; sms; Mastodon; tried a couple of crypto chats. There are so many options it's not worth worrying about. In the cases of special interest groups (think school/club/street/building groups), I just miss out, or ask for updates when I meet people. I am a bit out of the loop sometimes. No-one's died as a result of my leaving. When someone did actually die that I needed to know about, I got a phone call. Honestly... just leave. Just leave. It's not worth your time worrying about these kind of "what ifs".
- the_af 10mo agoHow about close friends who live on the other side of the world? Telegram and Signal are, to me, about as trustworthy as WhatsApp. Well, actually, nobody really uses Signal, and Telegram is about the same as WhatsApp so who cares. Waiting to meet my friends once every 1-2 years is not enough. I want to chat daily with them, because they are my close friends. Daily telephone conversations with a group of them? Nope. Snail mail? It doesn't work for daily conversation. So WhatsApp it is!
- KurSix 10mo agoOwning your own site and using federated spaces like Mastodon is absolutely a healthier model, and I wish it were more viable for more people. But until discovery, reach, and social norms shift in a big way, a lot of folks are going to be stuck straddling both worlds
- throw-12-16 10mo agowho announces a divorce?
- saubeidl 10mo agoDivorcees.
- throw-12-16 10mo agoIs it like a gender reveal where they pop a balloon that says "I cheated!"?
- nusl 10mo agodid you read the article?
- throw-12-16 10mo agokind of hard to do when the site is unreachable
- nusl 10mo agoSite has been perfectly reachable. Regardless, commenting on pure headlines is a waste of everyone's time. Read the article, or don't comment.
- throw-12-16 10mo agothanks dad
- tectec 10mo agoDid you read the article?
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- CrzyLngPwd 10mo agoSurely, if the slop is generated by looking at the image and the text, then it seems someone could manipulate it into hallucinating all manner of wonderful things.
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- tbossanova 10mo agoMaybe, but surely that’s not the important part?
- Alex2037 10mo agowhat was supposed to be the important part, "AI bad"? the author is not some clueless pedestrian, they are clearly online enough to be fully aware that all social media companies treat their users like cattle. so why the pikachu face when Instagram (of all things!) does something it is designed to do - squeezing every last bit of value from its digital serfs?
- rightbyte 10mo agoSo, good that she tells others I guess?
- archerx 10mo agoHow does Mark Zuckerberg’s boot taste like?
- Alex2037 10mo agoif Llama counts, then it tasted great (while it lasted).
- archerx 10mo agoLlama was not great, it was barely good, it wasn't very smart nor creative and had it's guardrails cranked up to 11. Local models didn't get interesting until Mistral and China entered the game. Meta still hasn't released it's image models which has been trained on 10s of thousands of my photos.
- avhception 10mo ago> Because what this AI-generated SEO slop formed from an extremely vulnerable and honest place shows is that women’s pain is still not taken seriously. Companies putting words in people's mouth on social media using "AI" is horrible and shouldn't be allowed. But I completely fail to see what this has to do with misogyny. Did Instagram have their LLM analyze the post and then only post generated slob when it concluded the post came from a woman? Certainly not.
- bonsai_spool 10mo ago> Did Instagram have their LLM analyze the post and then only post generated slob when it concluded the post came from a woman? Certainly not. I actually am sympathetic to your confusion—perhaps this is semantics, but I agree with the trivialization of the human experience assessment from the author and your post, but don't read it as an attack on women's pain as such. I think the algorithm sensed that the essay would touch people and engender a response. -- However, I am certain that Instagram knows the author is a woman, and that the LLM they deployed can do sentiment analysis (or just call the Instagram API and ask whether the post is by a woman). So I don't think we can somehow absolve them of cultural awareness. I wonder how this sort of thing influences its output (and wish we didn't have to puzzle over such things).
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- Vinnl 10mo agoObviously I am putting words in the author's mouth here, so take with a grain of salt, but I think the reasoning is something like: such LLM-generated content disproportionately negatively affects women, and the fact that this got pushed through shows that they didn't take those consequences into account, e.g. by not testing what it would look like in situations like these.
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- chvid 10mo agoIt sounds like a relative benign AI-summary of her post. I guess it should have been marked clearly as such.
- nomilk 10mo agoThe misleading aspect is that the AI generated content was in first person, so any reasonable reader would falsely attribute the statement to the person involved, when in fact it was concocted entirely by Meta's AI.
- hnarn 10mo ago”I posted content to a proprietary social network, then got upset when it generated a page description with AI” Sure, the description is garbage, it may not be obvious it’s not written by the user, but people need to understand what partaking in closed and proprietary social media actually means. You are not paying anything, you do not control the content, you are the product. If you don’t enjoy using a service that does this to the content you post then don’t use that service. I’ll stick to this point only even if I feel that there are other things in the post that are terribly annoying.
- ryanjshaw 10mo agoThat’s one approach. Another is that you can complain about things companies do that you don’t like.
- mcherm 10mo agoWhen the behavior is not only something something you "don't like" but is also (as this woman perceives it) a professional threat (she makes a living out of carefully choosing her words; she felt this attributed to her words she would never have said) and furthermore is unexpected, to simply quietly leave the platform seems insufficient. One ought to warn other users about the unexpected dangerous practice -- which is precisely what this article accomplishes!
- YetAnotherNick 10mo agoMeta added it in "<meta>" tag(no pun intended) intended for search engine. And some other app crawled it and displayed it in main text. Not defending Meta but the text is not visible in instagram or any other Meta app.
- Ndymium 10mo agoog:description is exactly the meta tag to use for link descriptions in embeds. Not all meta tags are only for search engines. The app acted correctly here.
- YetAnotherNick 10mo agoIf og:description is used in the app, the app shouldn't just show append it to main text without any way to differentiate.
- diegof79 10mo agoIt’s the OpenGraph description metadata (“og:description”, see https://ogp.me/ https://ogp.me/ ) Many apps, like Slack and LinkedIn, use it to display a link card with a description.
- rpigab 10mo agoOne day, you won't be able to delete your social network account anymore. There will be a delete button, but the account will stay, and it will keep posting after you're gone, it won't care whether you are doing something else entirely or whether you're dead, the show will go on. The shareholders will be content, because they see value in that. The users might not, but not many of them are actual humans, nowadays they're mostly AI, who has time to read and/or post on social media? Just ask your favorite AI what's the hottest trends on social networks, it should suffice to scratch the itch.
- washadjeffmad 10mo agoThere's a short story with a similar plot from "Valuable Humans in Transit" by qntm.
- Fwirt 10mo agoIt’s still up on his website as well: https://qntm.org/perso https://qntm.org/perso
- siliconpotato 10mo agoI made a tiktok account to write a comment on a video I hated. Now when i sign in again I am presented with lots of awful videos from the guy I dislike. I cannot delete my viewing history using the website, and following other accounts doesn't remove the obsession tiktok has with always showing me his videos as the default. I'm not installing the app, so the only way around this is to delete my account completely.
- rpigab 10mo agoClassic "any interaction is positive interaction". That's modern platforms to you. Do not try LinkedIn. Not even once.
- fallinghawks 10mo agoJust recently, Twitter started making the default view "For You" instead of "Following" with no way to switch back. Fortunately there's an extension that fixes that and lets you eliminate the For You view entirely.
- ChrisMarshallNY 10mo agoThat’s a pretty horrifying story, and Meta’s crassness is kind of stunning. It sort of reminds me of the old “Clippy Helps with A Suicide Note” meme. > My story is absolutely layered through with trauma, humiliation, and sudden financial insecurity and I truly resent that this AI-generated garbage erases the deliberately uncomfortable and provocative words I chose to include in my original framing. I truly feel for her, and wish her luck. Also, I feel that, of any of the large megacorps, Meta is the one I would peg to do this. I’m not even sure they feel any shame over it. They may actually appreciate the publicity this generates. I’m thinking that Facebook could do something like slightly alter the text in your posts, to incite rage in others. They already arrange your feed to induce “engagement” (their term for rage). For example, if you write a post about how you failed to get a job, some “extra spice” could be added, inferring that you lost to an immigrant, or that you are angry at the company that turned you down, as opposed to just disappointed.
- m-hodges 10mo agoCan someone smarter than me explain if/how Section 230 is relevant to this type of content that the platforms are, in fact, authoring and publishing?
- tchalla 10mo ago> While I am sure buried deep in some EULA there is some bullshit allowing Meta to get away with this All that sweet, sweet innovation!
- Yizahi 10mo agoI haven't posted on IG for years, but read it sometime and see that a slop-description is added below some (not all) posts. I assumed that it was something creators have added manually, but now you are telling me that Facebook does it automatically?
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- benterix 10mo agoIt might be painful short term, but excellent long-term. Many people already realized they gave away control over many aspects of their lives, especially the most important one, attention, to big corporations who are exploiting whatever they can ruthlessly. Many people already quit Facebook and the like; the one who remain are bound to experience quite a few surprises.
- EdwardDiego 10mo ago> I already felt immense pain and anger by the decision of my husband to suddenly end our marriage. And now I feel a double sense of violation that the men who design and maintain and profit from the internet have literally impersonated my voice behind the closed doors of hidden metadata to tell a more palatable version of the story they think will sell. That's a bit dismissive of women, does she think that women aren't capable of designing and maintaining software too?
- huhkerrf 10mo agoIt's easier to swallow when you can blame a group of people for things that are bad. You can other them and not sit with the possibility that people who look like you (maybe even are you) can also do things that harm others. I couldn't do something bad, I'm not one of _them_. You see this later as well when she slyly glides over women who do what her husband did. When her husband decided to end their marriage, it was representative of men. When women do it, it's their choice to make.
- directevolve 10mo agoThat’s an understandable misreading of what she said. I appreciate that the rhetorical effect could feel like a sly way to slip in asymmetric gender standards about how to interpret divorce. But I am a pedantic person who prefers to focus on the literal statements in text rather than the perceived underlying emotional current. So I’ll pedantically plod through what she actually said. She’s dealing with two dimensions of divorce: who initiated it (husband, wife, or collaborative), and whether it was surprising or unsurprising. That gives several possibilities, but she lists three. What unifies them is that they are all written from the perspective of the abstract woman undergoing the experience. 1. Woman initiated, surprise unspecified. 2. Collaborative, so assume unsurprising. 3. Man initiated, surprising (her situation). She doesn’t claim this covers all possibilities. The point of that bit is just to emphasize that divorces are different, and to object to treating them as a genre for wellness AI slop. Here is the original text containing that part so others can easily form their own opinion. “I also object to the flattening of the contours of my particular divorce. There are really important distinctions between the experiences of women who initiate their own divorces versus women who come to a mutual agreement with their spouses to end the marriage versus women, like me, who are completely blindsided by their husbands’ decisions to suddenly end the marriage. All divorces do involve self-discovery and rebuilding your life, but the ways in which you begin down that path often involve dramatically different circumstances.”
- baubino 10mo agoThis article confirms all the reasons I stay away from social media platforms. What happened in this situation is awful. It also makes clear that even where legal bounds may have been crossed, it doesn’t really matter because who has the time, energy, and financial resources to challenge them? The big platforms know this and will continue to exploit not just user-created content, but the user’s own hard-earned reputation in order to feed more drivel to the masses.
- mnls 10mo agoIt's unacceptable that Meta did something like this. But this doesn’t change the fact that she shouldn’t share anything personal on social media. Consider social media the new "streets". A street with dim lights or an alley that you go at 3am and shout something or showing your images/videos to strangers there. This is exactly what you should keep in mind before you share anything personal on social media. And either way, who wants to be an unpaid Meta employee that provides any kind of content for free?
- ChrisMarshallNY 10mo agoI'll lay odds that the Meta employee that made the decision to do this, has an HN account. I notice how quickly this story is descending through the pages. It's already off the front page.
- gruez 10mo ago>I notice how quickly this story is descending through the pages. It's already off the front page. HN doesn't even have a downvote button.
- ChrisMarshallNY 10mo agoI know. It’s fascinating to see which stories take a dive.
- gruez 10mo agoSo you don't know why exactly this story was "taking a dive", but regardless you're going to assume the Meta employee responsible for the feature has an HN account and is somehow causing it?
- ChrisMarshallNY 10mo agoHuh? Way to interpolate. Kudos to your reach! I just was pointing out that it's likely that the employee responsible was here. The diving is highly unlikely to be triggered by a single employee (unless it was that "employee"). No, but if it was flagged, it's possible that it was by Meta employees. I can't see why it would be flagged, otherwise. I'll bet there's enough for a good flash mob, like the Elon stans that always flag down stories critical of him. I'll bet they will also be flagging my comment. It's nice to be loved...
- piokoch 10mo agoIn the very first place... What's the freaking point to announce the divorce in the social media??? Why? Especially in the social media run by people known for having problems with moral behaviors (ask Winklevoss brothers), where 3/4 of their platform is either scam/fraud or infomercial.
- mapotofu 10mo agoThere are people who love divorces, love interacting with them, and love watching people go through them. It’s a cottage market in gossip futures. Social media is designed around gossip futures by people with questionable character. So you answered your own question ;) more shit piled onto the heap!
- PunchyHamster 10mo agoDesperate need for attention I'd imagine
- blahaj 10mo agoTwo possible reasons: 1. Attention. 2. You a have a public image that includes you being married and social media is one of the main channels over which you reach the people who know you. Now you get divorced and you do not want these people to have the false image of you being happily married and potentially even getting comments referencing your marriage anymore.
- themaninthedark 10mo agoValidation that her feelings/ her view is correct. No one(*almost) is posting to reddits AITA(am I the asshole) expecting to hear that they are wrong. This is also how echo chambers form.
- morkalork 10mo agoCould be a lot easier to rip off the band-aid all at once rather than pen a hand written note to dozens or more mutuals with subtle hints of "please stop sending couples invitations to social events"
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- chrismorgan 10mo agoI’ve been noticing DuckDuckGo search results increasingly frequently doing this. They used to either use the <meta name=description> (which is subject to abuse by the site) or show an excerpt from the page text highlighting the keyword matches (which is often most helpful), but from time to time now I see useful meta descriptions or keyword matches sidelined in favour of what I presume is Microsoft-generated clickbaity slop of a “learn more about such-and-such” kind, occasionally irrelevant to the actual article’s text or even inconsistent with it.
- blahaj 10mo ago> I share my pain publicly as a gesture of solidarity with other people, but especially women, who have been profoundly traumatized by those they thought they could love and trust. This is about her husband divorcing her. I find this to be a very unfair way to frame someone else's decision to not spend their life with you anymore. Your partner does not owe you a relationship. Interestingly it is not even me coming up with the word "framing". She herself describes her Instagram post as deliberate framing. She also claims that the AI chose words dismissive of her pain because she is a woman (rather than just because it's fake-positive corpo slop) and does not substantiate that in any way. I'm all against this AI slop BS, especially when it's impersonating people. The blog post is mostly not about that.
- EgregiousCube 10mo agoIf anything there's an interesting angle in the facts of this story about a new form of "mansplaining," but it's the algorithm doing "robosplaining" for the human race.
- Aeglaecia 10mo agothere is a part of the marriage vows where a loving couple promise each other til death do us part ... it's selfish to the max to go back on a promise like that for a reason outside of your partners control ... after retyping this a dozen times to stamp the snark out , I am now genuinely curious as to what has reversed the victim role in your mind ...
- blahaj 10mo agoPeople being allowed to part ways and not having to stick with their partner until death is one of the great achievements of feminism. It goes both ways. You cannot control that you will love someone forever, so you cannot promise that. What you can promise someone is that you plan on spending the rest of your life with them and that you have so much love that you trust it will last forever. Sometimes that does not work out. That is no one's fault and no one owes to anyone to stay together with a person they no longer love.
- zerofor_conduct 10mo agoFrom a French novel: Elle n'avait qu'un seul défaut : elle était insupportable.
- duxup 10mo agoI know getting folks onboard is not easy for any social media site. But I'd pay for a social media site that respected my preferences / content choices and had everyone using real names / validated and so on.
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- hughw 10mo agoI hope putting first person words in a poster's mouth is not permitted explicitly by Meta's own terms of service.
- everdrive 10mo agoI'm a little bit confused about what's going on here. Is this nothing more than an LLM-generated summary of her post? She shows the metadata but also shows it coming up in the post. I don't use any of these apps so I'm not really sure what a normal user would have seen. ie, would that text have been appended visibly to her post, making users think she wrote that, but also have been in tags which would have optimized for search engines? Either way, I don't know what to tell people. Social media exists to take advantage of you. If you use it, your choices are "takes more advantage" vs. "takes less advantage," but that's as good as gets.
- EgregiousCube 10mo agoIt looks like it's a third-party UI, her Mastodon client, using the description metadata in a way that kind of makes it look like that metadata is part of the post. Auto-generating said description tag in the first person is a bit of a weird product decision - probably a bad one that upsets users more than it's useful - but the presentation layer isn't owned by Meta here.
- everdrive 10mo agoThanks for the explanation, that makes a lot of sense. I'll bet that when it's not a sensitive topic, this totally goes unnoticed by a lot of users. Frustratingly, I would imagine that the response from most people would just be that the LLM summarizations / metadata tagging should be censored in "sensitive cases," but will otherwise be accepted by the user base.
- geor9e 10mo agoAuthor posted to Instagram > Author shared the Instagram link on Mastodon > Mastodon mobile app unfurled the link into a preview > app concatenated mystery text from a hidden metadata field in the Instagram page > turns out Meta's LLM wrote first-person inspiration slop in the "I" voice for SEO > Author feels impersonated
- tim333 10mo agoThat's awful of Meta. Another thing I've noticed recently on youtube suddenly my feed is full of AI fakes of well known speakers like Sarah Paine an eminent historian who talks about Russia and the like but there's all this slop with her face speaking and "Why Putin's War Was ALWAYS Inevitable - Sarah Paine" but with AI generated words. They usually say somewhere in the small print that it's an AI fan tribute but it's all a bit weird. (update they now say 'video taken down' but were there for a while)
- yoan9224 10mo agoThe dystopian part isn't that AI impersonation is possible - we've known that for years. It's that Meta proactively created an AI profile without explicit opt-in, using someone's personal photos and life events to train a simulacrum that interacts with their actual friends. This crosses a fundamental consent boundary that feels qualitatively different from "AI suggested you write this reply." The legal framework is completely unprepared for this. Current identity theft laws require financial harm or fraud intent. But what's the legal status of an AI that impersonates you with your own data on a platform you actively use? It's not fraud in the traditional sense, but it's definitely some kind of identity violation. We need new categories: "computational identity theft," "algorithmic impersonation," something that recognizes the harm of having your digital self puppeteered by a corporate AI. The metadata implications are worse than people realize. Even if you never post personal content, Meta can infer relationship status, location patterns, health issues, political leanings from likes, tags, and behavioral signals. An AI profile built from that could plausibly interact in your name with significant accuracy. The person being impersonated might not even know unless someone explicitly asks "wait, did you really say that?" The immediate solution is legislation requiring explicit opt-in for any AI feature that generates content attributed to a user's identity. No defaults, no dark patterns, no "we'll enable it and let you opt out later." But the deeper problem is the power asymmetry - these companies own the platforms and the data, so they define what's acceptable. We need data portability rights and mandatory AI disclosure so users can at least migrate to platforms that don't pull this.
- josefritzishere 10mo agoI would be so offended by AI impresonating me that I'd delete my account immediately.
- nomilk 10mo agoSeems odd this was flagged. Seems like a genuine article, and didn't appear to cause a flamewar. Possible false positive? cc: @dang
- KurSix 10mo agoThis is genuinely disturbing, and not in a vague "AI is weird" way but in a very concrete authorship-and-consent way
- rozab 10mo agoI've noticed for a while these bizarre and sometimes inaccurate AI summaries of pages showing up in Google search results where matches to actual page content used to be. I assumed it was Google generating them, not the 3rd parties themselves. Why does Google even allow indexing on text that isn't really on the page?
- bmacho 10mo agoBTW HN also mangles with your submissions/posts in your name. They change the date, and the submission text, while keeping your name. While I don't think it has a high risk of causing anyone any harm, I kinda hate it, like I DID NOT POST A SUBMISSION WITH THAT TITLE and I MADE THAT COMMENT AT A DIFFERENT TIME. I'd prefer if texts that are altered got a [last edited at [date] by moderator] stamp.
- bmacho 10mo agoI guess I feel safer when a program returns true data, and timestamp mangling and moderator mangled posts scare me.
- DetectDefect 10mo agoSocial media users are unpaid employees of tech companies. Why any rational person volunteers for this dull work is frankly confusing to me. Even more confusing is when the same people try to moralize the predictably horrifying results of their work.
- exabrial 10mo ago> Because what this AI-generated SEO slop formed from an extremely vulnerable and honest place shows is that women’s pain is still not taken seriously. Incredibly sorry this happened to you. Unfortunately, Silicon Valley could not care less. Consent is not a concept they understand. I hope you find healing and strength.
- nuancebydefault 10mo agoThere seem to be quite some negative comments to this post. Regardless of the title and the full story, I mostly feel empathy for the writer of the article. Half a year ago a colleague of mine told me, in tears, that her spouse suddenly left her after living together for 7 years. I felt her pain and cried with her, i tried to comfort her with kind words. I had a nightmare that night. She's truly a very good person and I still feel very sad for her. She told me later that his personality suddenly seemed to have changed, he was not the man she used to know. The bottom line of what I want to say: please have empathy with people going through a break of relationships, even if such things happen every day. Be thankful if you are in a good relationship.
- BonoboIO 10mo agoMaybe I m out of touch, but what has instagrams seo spamming ai todo with patriarchy? The last section of the blogpost.
- tgsovlerkhgsel 10mo agoThis has to be some form of GDPR or personality right violation (in countries that have that) that simple terms of service doesn't get them out of.
- mock-possum 10mo agoI struggle to see anything here besides “lie down with the dogs and you get fleas” I think the trouble is I can’t imagine being the kind of person who would post about something like this.
- gavmor 10mo agoHuman beings share our experiences with one another and reflect on them via storytelling. This has been our way for millennia, if not millions of years. No subject is too trivial, nor profound; too obvious, nor intimate. Communication enables us to live lives we couldn't otherwise, accruing both lessons and solidarity. These are benefits of titanic value. The long and short of it is, we've got to lie down, but it's hard to keep the dogs off the bed.