Meta Plans New AI-Powered 'Morning Brief' Drawn From Facebook and 'External Sources' (msn.com) 14
Meta "is testing a new product that would give Facebook users a personalized daily briefing powered by the company's generative AI technology" reports the Washington Post. They cite records they've reviwed showing that Meta "would analyze Facebook content and external sources to push custom updates to its users."
The company plans to test the product with a small group of Facebook users in select cities such as New York and San Francisco, according to a person familiar with the project who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private company matters...
Meta's foray into pushing updates for consumers follows years of controversy over its relationship with publishers. The tech company has waffled between prominently featuring content from mainstream news sources on Facebook to pulling news links altogether as regulators pushed the tech giant to pay publishers for content on its platforms. More recently, publishers have sued Meta, alleging it infringed on their copyrighted works to train its AI models.
Meta's foray into pushing updates for consumers follows years of controversy over its relationship with publishers. The tech company has waffled between prominently featuring content from mainstream news sources on Facebook to pulling news links altogether as regulators pushed the tech giant to pay publishers for content on its platforms. More recently, publishers have sued Meta, alleging it infringed on their copyrighted works to train its AI models.
Giving users AI features they actually want: (Score:2)
Re: (Score:3)
Challenge level, impossible?
Those “users” (a cute but outdated 20th Century term) are The Product now.
Meta will use and abuse AI to sell The Product as they see fit.
Any actual resemblance towards usefulness in AI for The Product, is purely coincidental.
Yes. This is in the EULA. Yes. I do know you still read it to see if I’m lying.
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The Product can either take the service selling them as they see fit, or they can kindly fuck off.
There. Hope that clarifies how much influence the “customer” has on that platform. And how much you want, actually matters. They don’t need your input anymore. And they’re not asking for it.
That, is how you treat a Product you’re selling. Not a customer you’re catering to. Fucked up part is this is so brainwashed in consumers now they forgot what it means to be a custom
No better than Breakfast TV (Score:2)
Same bucket of everything and anything. Totally unrelatable and full of ads. Because that's what it's all about - serving more ads.
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GIGO.
Facebook drunk on Meta. (Score:2)
Same bucket of everything and anything. Totally unrelatable and full of ads. Because that's what it's all about - serving more ads.
Yeah, but hang on a minute. Let’s look at this in context a bit more.
Meta "is testing a new product that would give Facebook users a personalized daily briefing..
Don’t look now Meta, but you just described Facebook. The hell else do they think their feed junkies do upon breathing air in the morning other than scroll through their personalized feed to get their daily fix for the last 3.1 hours since last login from the shitter?
Facebook on Facebook. How very Meta of you.
Not correct (Score:4, Insightful)
"to push custom updates to its users."
" to push custom ads to its users."
There FTFY.
I have a great name (Score:2)
Morning Brief? (Score:2)
Briefs are the first article of clothing I put on in the morning. Fortunately, my briefs aren't full of shit. Too bad the same can't be said of Meta's briefs - or of Meta itself, for that matter...
Echo Chamber on Steroids (Score:2)
Given that Facebook is a sewer pit of consistently wrong and/or misleading posts, and that the FB algorithm tends to create a strong echo chamber for a user, this approach will do nothing but make the social media shit show even worse. No good will come from this.