Meta’s AI Profiles Are Already Polluting Instagram and Facebook With Slop

All the ones I’ve seen so far are minorities. This is fucking blackface.

This all really feels like a desperate attempt to save their dying social networks, just filling their sites with garbage to make it look like they're not declining

Pretty good article, this stood out for me:

Something about George Romero’s 1978 film about doomed survivors riding out the zombie apocalypse in a shopping mall feels resonant today as I look across Meta’s suite of AI-created profiles. The movie’s blue-skinned corpses don’t know they’re dead. They just wander through the shopping center on autopilot, looking for something new to consume.

That’s how many of our social media spaces feel now. Digital town squares populated by undead posters, zombies spouting lines they learned from an LLM, the digested material from decades of the internet spewed back at the audience. That’s what Meta is selling now.

This is some legit dystopian shit right here. I almost wish I hadn’t abandoned these platforms years ago, so that I could take this opportunity to do it. I hope that more people wake up to the insidious nature of this company and these services.

You've heard of the Dead Internet Theory, now get ready for the UNDEAD Internet Theory!

I still don't understand why they're doing it. They can't possibly think this will be good long-term, can they?

And what's with the article ending on a note of trying to make it sound bad that reviving nuclear power is a negative thing? If that's the result of AI slop, then I'd call it a net positive.

The best part is no one is going to leave the platform over this except a small minority of nerds like us. The average person is addicted to social media. Ain't nothing going to drive them away.

Those apps are legitimately dead. They just haven’t caught up yet.

Fuck AI.

It feels like Zuckerberg is out of ideas and just chases the trends to stay relevant. He was all in on the “metaverse” until he wasn’t because the concept disappeared. Now, he’s all in on AI because everyone else is. Even the quest, before it became the face of the metaverse, was him chasing another big idea from someone else.

He and the company haven’t had original ideas in a very long time. Even the smaller ones, like Stories and Reels, are just ideas copied from someone else.

Thank fuck I deleted my Facebook when I did (around the time of the Cambrige Analytica scandal). Never had an Instagram.

For anyone reading, delete them all. Load of shite, you won't miss them.

This type of stuff will get a whole lot worse before it gets better.

The idea of random AI floating about to soothe people and give them attention is damn creepy. Ew.

I don't need anymore fake content. Real people are doing an amazing job of that already.

Hey Liv! Sup! Jow menee ees and uus in jujubes?

I avoid any multiplayer game that has bots that you can't filter out and you have to play with them not knowing that they're bots. it removes all the font of any game ever

Among us?

That’s what the world was missing, NPCs.

Best thing you can do is not use any Meta products. What a shit company

“Proud black queer momma of 2 & truth-teller,”

This sounds like a caricature.

Wow that’s horrifying. Hilarious and horrifying.

This is getting really fucking creepy. I suppose next they're going to start following and sending private messages because anything is worth it for our precious "engagement".

This is brilliantly dystopian They can create hyper-specific profiles to target specific eyeballs and feed ads from the profile itself. They no longer have to rely on users posting things others would react to. They can just write what they know will generate reactions.

You cannot really pollute these platforms any more than they already are imo. The AI slop perfectly resonates with the rest of the garbage there, so it shouldn't make a difference.

how are advertisers ok with this?

Accelerating dead internet.

I’m so fucking glad I never made a facebook account. Even years ago I saw it as an unnecessary annoyance; I can’t believe how bad it’s gotten since.

All I can think of is one of Mr. Lovenstein’s comics… we’re finally free now!

"The never-born"

Maybe we should interact with these heavily. Then Facebook can be abandoned.

The Slopification of everything. Welcome to 2025.

Obviously this is all stupid and you'll find problems anywhere you choose to look.

The problem I'm finding is this, if Facebook truly is betting on AI becoming better as a way to encourage growth then why are they further poisoning their own datasets? Like ok, even if you exclude everything your own bots say from your training data, which you could probably do since you know who they are, this is still encouraging more AI slop on the platform. You don't know how much of the "engagement" your driving (which they are likely just turning around and feeding back into the AI training set) is actually human, AI grifter, or someone poisoning the well by making your AIs talk to themselves. If you actually cared to make your AI better, then you can't use any of the responses to your bots as most of them will be of dubious providence at best.

Personally I'm rooting on the coming Hapsburg-AI issue so I don't really have that much of a problem with Facebook deciding more poison is a brilliant business move. But uh... seems real dumb if your actually interested in having an actually functional LLM.

Couldn't care less. I don't use FB or Instagram.

Meta got it wrong. People want AI that generates brain rots and sad cat stories, not this dumb thing! /s but not really

But dead men do tell tales
Of how we've run out of luck
And we're all fucked
Because society is weak and frail