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1. nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 04-Jan-2025 15:17:21 JST nixCraft 🐧

   Meanwhile, Meta creates fake AI-created profiles for engagement on Facebook and Instagram. Here is an example of how it looks. Guess what? You can’t block these AI profiles. They are so stupid and want to get rid of humans. All this so they can avoid paying the 1000 bucks they pay to top influencers monthly. The most dystopian shit ever

   • Eugenus Optimus 🇺🇦 (ujeenator@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 04-Jan-2025 15:22:30 JST Eugenus Optimus 🇺🇦

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     @nixCraft are we there yet?

   • nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 04-Jan-2025 15:22:42 JST nixCraft 🐧

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     AI profiles. AI-generated scams and comments. AI-generated views. No real humans. Ad money collected from real businesses. It is one big scam. Mark is so brilliant. 😂

   • nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 04-Jan-2025 15:40:27 JST nixCraft 🐧

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     • Walter

     @winghongchan they deactivated those accounts after massive backlash from influencers who threatened to stop posting 😂

   • Walter (winghongchan@social.opendesktop.org)'s status on Saturday, 04-Jan-2025 15:40:28 JST Walter

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     @nixCraft does that account actually exist? I can’t seem to find it.

   • Sharp Leaves (boysenberrycider@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 04-Jan-2025 15:49:03 JST Sharp Leaves

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     @nixCraft My understanding is the root cause behind this shit is various tech companies using the magic word "AI" to convince investors that they can in fact squeeze blood from a stone and increase targeted ad revenue. It doesn't have to convince a human, just a credulous investor who thinks "oh yeah, an grotesque stereotype of human experience, that'll definitely fool those sheep! Put me down for 1000 shares". Yes I excluded investors from my definition of human.

   • nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 04-Jan-2025 16:00:35 JST nixCraft 🐧

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     • Thibault Molleman🇧🇪 🌈🐝

     @thibaultmol nobody knows what Mark and his management are up to. They invested heavily in those GPUs and so far no return on their investments. So they are trying various things. That is my best guess

   • Thibault Molleman🇧🇪 🌈🐝 (thibaultmol@en.osm.town)'s status on Saturday, 04-Jan-2025 16:00:36 JST Thibault Molleman🇧🇪 🌈🐝

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     @nixCraft i still don't really get the point of those.... Change Facebook's insensitive?

   • Milos (doctor_zoidberg@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 04-Jan-2025 16:03:14 JST Milos

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     @nixCraft Facebook didn't start this, some individuals did and there are/were small companies that did this. Apparently, the advertisers liked the idea, because they had more control over their brand image, or something like that.

   • nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 04-Jan-2025 16:06:02 JST nixCraft 🐧

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     • Айсылу
     • Walter

     @wonderfox_dev @winghongchan that is another possibility

   • Айсылу (wonderfox_dev@suya.place)'s status on Saturday, 04-Jan-2025 16:06:05 JST Айсылу

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     • Walter

     @nixCraft @winghongchan or they just stopped indicating AI accounts pretending they’re human

   • Citeh (citeh@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 04-Jan-2025 17:42:25 JST Citeh

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     @nixCraft The only reason why threads didn't take off is because of the meta bullcrap

   • Bart Nijbakker (bnijbakker@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 04-Jan-2025 18:06:20 JST Bart Nijbakker

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     @nixCraft Let me get this straight.

     Facebook et al force real humans to enter their phone number, or sometimes even submit a passport (no kidding, this happened) to prove they're human and thus "prevent botting and fake profiles".

     And now the same platforms start creating their own fake profiles? Well, what did we need to verify ourselves for all this time? They don't need AI, just disable the nonsense entry requirements and folks will do it for them.

     It's just about control and manipulation.

   • Dibs (dtwx@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 04-Jan-2025 18:45:24 JST Dibs

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     @nixCraft what I loved most about this was that the bot seemed to be more aware of just how shitty the whole thing was than the developers...

     'Liv, for instance, said that her creator team included zero Black people and was predominantly white and male. It was a “pretty glaring omission given my identity”, the bot wrote'

     https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/03/meta-ai-powered-instagram-facebook-profiles

   • Phil M (pmarrone@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 04-Jan-2025 18:48:06 JST Phil M

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     @nixCraft Mark Zuckerberg needs to have his membership in the humanity club revoked.

   • enoch_exe_inc (enoch_exe_inc@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 04-Jan-2025 18:50:31 JST enoch_exe_inc

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     @nixCraft Fortunately, they seemed to have thought better of this and removed these bots…for now. Unfortunately, there’s no way to stop them from more subtly re-enabling them in the future.

   • zetabeta (zetabeta@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 04-Jan-2025 18:56:31 JST zetabeta

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     @nixCraft
     this is good time to remind.

     meta inc owns whatsapp, instagram, threads and facebook.

     is the next phase, ai generated garbage in your whatsapp feed !?

   • Fardels Bear (riggbeck@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 04-Jan-2025 19:09:26 JST Fardels Bear

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     • Walter

     @nixCraft @winghongchan

     I'm not sure that human 'influencers' are any better than bots. They'd be the first on board Golgafrincham Ark B.

   • pa27 (pa27@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 04-Jan-2025 19:43:19 JST pa27

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     @nixCraft But why is anyone on facebook?

   • Naiyer (naiyer@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 04-Jan-2025 19:46:19 JST Naiyer

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     @nixCraft BTW, if you, a real human, would even dare to upload a few AI-manipulated photos / videos on Instagram, you’d receive a very strictly worded letter from them telling you exactly how they would block your account unless you prove your mortality.

   • nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 04-Jan-2025 22:52:13 JST nixCraft 🐧

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     • Orb 2069
     • zetabeta

     @Orb2069 @zetabeta damn

   • Orb 2069 (orb2069@mastodon.online)'s status on Saturday, 04-Jan-2025 22:52:14 JST Orb 2069

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     • zetabeta

     @zetabeta @nixCraft

     In Whatsapp:

     [ + ] -> Chat with AIs -> Popular AI characters :

   • Kaede (empresskaede@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 04-Jan-2025 23:40:54 JST Kaede

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     @nixCraft they pay creators?

   • naught101 (naught101@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 05-Jan-2025 08:55:42 JST naught101

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     @nixCraft

     > the most dystopian shit ever

     Until what ever they cook up next week

   • Annette Peter 🧜🏻‍♂️🦂🦁 (mons1serrata@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 05-Jan-2025 20:47:37 JST Annette Peter 🧜🏻‍♂️🦂🦁

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     @nixCraft Dann existiert Meta bald nur noch zum puren Selbstzweck. Aber wie dumm müssen "real humans" sein, um einem AI account zu folgen?!

     Then meta will soon exist purely as an end in itself. But how stupid do "real humans" have to be to follow an AI account?!