Mark Zuckerberg Says a Lot More AI Generated Content is Coming To Fill Up Facebook and Instagram Feeds 29
First we had friends. Then we had influencers. And if Mark Zuckerberg is correct, the next big thing in our social media feeds will be AI generated content. Lots of it. Fortune: Zuckerberg described our future feeds during Facebook-parent company Meta's third quarter earnings conference call on Wednesday, describing it as a natural evolution. "I think were going to add a whole new category of content which is AI generated or AI summarized content, or existing content pulled together by AI in some way," the Meta CEO said. "And I think that that's gonna be very exciting for Facebook and Instagram and maybe Threads, or other kinds of feed experiences over time."
Zuckerberg touted the company's Llama large language model and the success of products it powers, such as the Meta AI chatbot that is now used by more than 500 million users every month. But Llama will increasingly play a role across Meta's business, Zuckerberg said, including tools for business customers and advertisers. As AI tools become more widespread, AI content will proliferate within social media feeds. Such feeds are actively being worked on inside Meta, Zuckerberg noted. "It's something we're starting to test different things around." "I don't know if we know what's exactly going to work really well yet, but some things are really promising," he added. "I have high confidence that over the next several years, this will be one of the important trends and one of the important applications."
Zuckerberg touted the company's Llama large language model and the success of products it powers, such as the Meta AI chatbot that is now used by more than 500 million users every month. But Llama will increasingly play a role across Meta's business, Zuckerberg said, including tools for business customers and advertisers. As AI tools become more widespread, AI content will proliferate within social media feeds. Such feeds are actively being worked on inside Meta, Zuckerberg noted. "It's something we're starting to test different things around." "I don't know if we know what's exactly going to work really well yet, but some things are really promising," he added. "I have high confidence that over the next several years, this will be one of the important trends and one of the important applications."
He probably meant that as a positive thing... (Score:5, Insightful)
It is not.
Re: He probably meant that as a positive thing... (Score:2)
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What ARE you trying to say here?
That we need official sanctioned low quality content in addition to the existing saturation of terrible 3rd party low quality content? I honestly cannot see how you expected other people to agree with you here.
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You forgot this ... /s
If you're serious about what you posted, your just dumb.
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Indeed. Nobody wants this. Quite the opposite, in fact.
While he's right that "AI content will proliferate within social media feeds" the goal should be to eliminate as much of it as possible, not create more!
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Nobody wants this. Quite the opposite, in fact.
Facebook is already a hellish, unusable shitscape overwhelmed by AI-generated garbage. Can't see how this will be any different.
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Call me when you can AI Generate customers.
Cause replacing the users with AI, means there will be a lot less users willing to contribute anything to the platform. See the current exodus from Twitter to Bluesky.
People are leaving because they don't want "Twitter" to ingest their content and then try and feed it back to them like it was twitter original content.
Facebook should be sticking their AI "content generator" machine in full 4WD Reverse, otherwise they will be chasing people off the platform in droves
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Oh I don't think thats the only reason people are leaving twitter.
Its conversion into an all-politics-all-the-time zone of angry americans (remember folks, americans made up about 20% of the site prior to the takeover) who interject political shit into *every* conversation regardless of whether they where participants or not has had a huge demoralizing effect on its user base.
My ma used to use it to discuss genealogy and follow her tv soap stars. But she gave up after finding that almost every conversation
A tsunami (Score:2)
...of AI-blended slop. Pre-chewed and semi-digested (by something else) bites of data tossed at you by the wagonloads.
Do not want.
Iâ(TM)ve been gone long enough itâ(TM)s (Score:1)
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I haven't read FB for about 12 years. I don't feel like I've missed anything. You're doing great, you'll continue to be great. FB has no real world value.
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What pisses me off is that it seems like there is a recent increase of organizations and companies using Facebook as a web publishing platform. I thought this trend was as dead as the dodo but it seems to be coming back. >:-(
You need a Facebook account just to view these pages, like the first time this unfortunate trend was in swing.
Rip van Winkle Question (Score:2)
The "Should I use Facebook and share your private life with people and strangers?" question is simpler.
For familial matters, asking "Would my grandparents or great-grandparents, if they could, publish an about my family column in the local big city paper every day?" helps to sort the "User FB?" question out.
Self-promotion as a daily act would be shunned by most people in prior generations. And yes, salespersons and some professions depend on self promotion....
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I have an active FB account from back then. I only use it for things like that which have been very rare (for me). YMMV. But I do not seek them out on fb or follow them or post anything or communicate with anyone in FB in any way. I only end up on those FB company sites when a search shows that as their only net existence.
I guess for low tech brick n mortar places it's easier and cheaper. Most of them barely post anything anyway.
I pity these users (Score:2)
I know...former smokers are the least charitable critics of current smokers. But still, I feel real pity for anyone still sucking at Meta's sour teat. The algorithms are going to learn what tickles their limbic system and feed them that sour content like the proverbial rats hitting the heroin button. Please just leave the platform now — life is better without it.
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The infernal thing about facebook is that a lot of peoples social lives kind of migrated onto that site. God knows a lot of mine did. I remember chatting with my girlfriend about this and realising neither of us coordinate social gatherings by phone anymore, its usually just on facebook chat. When we where in our 20s we'd phone peoples houses. Sometimes we'd even just go to friends houses and hope they where home. Nowdays that would be a really weird thing to do.
As a result despite the regular conversations
Do I get to still see my friends? (Score:3)
Back in the day (and I'm old enuf to be allowed to say that) I joined Facebook to hook up again with friends from high school, friends from college, friends from former employers and enjoy pictures and stories about them and their new families and all of that. And then it changed. Fewer cute babies, more posturing and grandstanding and politics. That was 2016. And then it's just gotten worse. I look at it every now and again and it's ads and reels and links to things that'll try to hijack your browser. Seems like it's 20-1 enshittification vs family photos. AI will make it worse guaranteed. I might finally getting around to quitting it all together.
Re:Do I get to still see my friends? (Score:5, Interesting)
I use https://www.fbpurity.com/ [fbpurity.com] it's the only thing for me that keeps FB usable, it does a good job of letting you filter out 95% of the crap.
Time to update filters/blockers (Score:2)
I'll admit it, I still use FB now and again, mainly just to see what some old friend are up to, but I use things like FBPurity and other tools that generally do a good job of blocking ads, stupid feeds, pretty much anything that's not a post from a friend.
I hope these tools manage to block the upcoming tsunami of sh*t Suckerberg plans to unleash. If not, guess it will be the proverbial straw for me.
So what? Who would notice the difference? (Score:2)
99% of FB and instagram is already just noise. Does it really matter if people write it or they sub it out to AI to post for them?
I wonder if this is intentional (Score:2)
AI talking to AI. (Score:2)
Sounds great (Score:4, Insightful)
When can I expect AI to be trained to go on Facebook and Instagram to consume this AI-generated content? Certainly few humans can withstand the onslaught of so-called "content" for very long. We don't have the psychological stamina to keep pace with data centers filled with machines running continuously and consuming gigawatts.
No matter how efficient evolution has made me, my 20 Watt brain can't out compute a kilowatt computer, let alone a gigawatt cluster. The human brain is pretty good at some things that computers struggle to do. But consuming advertisement is not one of them.
Exciting isn't the word I'd use (Score:2)
In theory I can see the value of AI summaries of events, though if I'm on social media I think I'm more interested in the people. But right now facebook is a mess of pages posting AI generated pictures.
Glad I deleted all that trash. (Score:2)
Absolute slop. Made sure to get all my family off it as well.
what exactly are those 500M using AI for? (Score:1)
I'm not on FB - I know hard to believe.
such as the Meta AI chatbot that is now used by more than 500 million users every month
Serious question, what are they using it for ?
Is this just shit that marketing is making up ?
are those 500M simply reading AI generated ads ?
is the AI summarizing news stories while adding in new conspiracy theories free of charge ?
what the fuck is he talking about ?