Amid competition from TikTok, Meta looks to the next frontier of user engagement.
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Meta readies AI chatbots for artificial companionship—and user retention
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It's hot out there. And it's going to become hotter. /g
I'm not opposed to chatbots, myself. But fuck me if I'd ever trust using anything from Facebook.
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Discord was offering this; the particular community I was in said hell no. I'm curious how many took them up on it and were glad they did.
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"social media sinkholes compete to see who has the best chatbots" was not on my corporate distopia bingo card.
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I don't see any way this can go horribly wrong on their toxic as fuck properties.
MetaBot: "No, just extend the right arm fully, palm down and elevated slightly above your head. Now, shout the words..."
MetaBot: "No, just extend the right arm fully, palm down and elevated slightly above your head. Now, shout the words..."
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Will the Facebook chatbots fall in love with the user and try to break up his marriage?
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Yep sure, an assistant as in: Let me help you purchase this other Meta product you need, it’s going to be great all my friends have one, don’t get left out!
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Because it worked so well for Snapchat sticking an immovable bot right at the top of everyone's chats.
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Can I pay Meta to chat with their Chatbots for me? Preferably as a subscription service instead of a flat one-time fee..
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I can easily see meta shifting gears and using these as bots on the platform much like you see chat bots on dating sites used for engagement. The question becomes when not if they blur the line between LLM and genuine interaction between people
This will have the desired effect for facebook's profits, and the undesired effect for users. Sounds like it fits perfectly in their wheelhouse.
This will have the desired effect for facebook's profits, and the undesired effect for users. Sounds like it fits perfectly in their wheelhouse.
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So that’s the tech they’ll use to make Threads attractive? Personas that do nothing but monitor and react to news on a delay? Here’s a persona that specializes in gender politics and cinema, here’s one that has a sexual fixation on Lemon yarn, here’s one that loves the MCU but always talks about any news story concerning MCU films with an aside on how Adam Sandler could be a surprise cameo for the film in question.
That’s definitely the future. Makes me want to peel all of my skin off and roll around in rusty barbed wire.
That’s definitely the future. Makes me want to peel all of my skin off and roll around in rusty barbed wire.
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I remember writing a markov-chain powered chatbot for IRC in like 2005, way ahead of those Meta guys.
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The last time he talked something up this much was the Metaverse, and we all know how that ended. I love how he starts the sentence with "You can imagine", as if this exactly what we've been waiting for. Reality call there Zuck, nobody wants what you're sellin'.
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"Engagement" and "content" have become such utterly toxic concepts and metrics it's astounding. Everything is geared around getting you addicted to an endless stream of drivel that lights up a dopamine sensor its scary
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Every time I read "engagement" in the context of social media it reminds me of how casinos design their spaces, layout, games and slot machines to trap their
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I believe the popular expression these days is 'Go outside and touch grass'.
(Or smoke it.)
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One of the servers I'm most active in allowed Clyde in. After a couple weeks of trying to break it, we've completely forgotten about it. I imagine the same will happen to Facebook's attempts as well.
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The title of this article alone, not to mention the content, had me wondering how long it would be before someone stuck two chat bots in a room and let them go.
I could see Meta using that to bolster numbers about how much interaction is happening.
I could also see dipshits, like me, doing it just to watch the world burn. Get two into a room and get them fighting. We used to do that with mod bots in chat rooms... this would be so much funnier!
I could see Meta using that to bolster numbers about how much interaction is happening.
I could also see dipshits, like me, doing it just to watch the world burn. Get two into a room and get them fighting. We used to do that with mod bots in chat rooms... this would be so much funnier!
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Isn't this just going end up with 90% of their traffic being bots talking to bots?
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Likely someone already tried that with the LLMs at MS or FB; watched them try to kill each other after a few cycles, pulled the plug, and pretended it never happened.
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In the future, will social media be dominated by:
- Humans following bots?
- Bots following humans?
- Bots following bots?
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If I wanted someone sending hearts to all the stupid posts, making inane and awkward comments, and keeping it very shallow, I'd unblock my aunt and uncle.
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So instead of getting misinformation from a group of barely coherent conspiracy-addled people, you can now get it from a fully coherent bot.
yay.
yay.
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I'm just waiting for the article about the only interaction on 'insert social media site here' is the bots talking with one another.
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Get enough of them at it and you have likely created a new type of DDOS attack.
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Don't knock it. The delay between this happening and advertisers waking up to it, might just buy an executive an extra yacht or three!...an advertisers paying to advertise to them
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So, really. For How I Met Your Motherboard, who actually thought it would be a good idea to chase the motherboard character for nine seasons, then have her appear for roughly two minutes in the final episode, die, and have Robin step in to take her role in the family?
That makes it entirely NOT a story about how anyone met anybody's motherboard and as a conclusion, is equally as satisfying as "and the characters woke up and found it had all been a dream."
Other than that, the programme was entertaining, however I only laughed about once every few episodes, which I feel is a bit infrequent for something claiming to be a comedy. It still beats Modern Family, Arrested Development, that one about the old man who thinks he's funny but isn't, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Portlandia, and...
That makes it entirely NOT a story about how anyone met anybody's motherboard and as a conclusion, is equally as satisfying as "and the characters woke up and found it had all been a dream."
Other than that, the programme was entertaining, however I only laughed about once every few episodes, which I feel is a bit infrequent for something claiming to be a comedy. It still beats Modern Family, Arrested Development, that one about the old man who thinks he's funny but isn't, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Portlandia, and...
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I sometimes think it would be so much less stressful to be a billionaire, but then I’d have to say horseshit like this and pretend to be sincere, so maybe it’s not as great as I imagined.
But for a platform which has created a toxic cesspool of ideological Balkanized cliques which separate humans from one another along continually more firm boundaries while smashing them against one another to see what kind of rage fueled engagement metrics it can juice, I shudder to think how bad this will be.
Imagine seeing the usual nonsense and deciding to take a moment to just honestly answer that persons comment, and then find out it was zuck tricking you to stay on the site, and imagine that being the bulk of the new experience on the platform.
Enshittification demands more and more sacrifice until the supernova, I can see this being the death knell of the rare actual useful interaction one may find on Facebook and creating an environment in which the only discussion is who is fucking whose mother the hardest wrapped in wild misrepresentations of what the other group is saying.
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A customer service chatbot to answer basic questions about a business with a Facebook page? That's fine.
An omnipresent chatbot that sends your questions straight to Zuckerberg's brain and gets you even more hooked on Facebook's endorphin and outrage drip-feed? Fuck no.
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To be fair, awkward comments is what having aunties and uncles is all about.
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Oh no, there's a Ghandi chatbot? It better not have an overflow error or its bestest best friends will be doomed again! Boooom!
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I suspect that we'll eventually be able to solve the confabulation problem with bots…
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I'm not interested in this, but I also deleted Facebook (the app itself) many years ago so I doubt I'm even the target audience.
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Of course they do, what better use can there be?
I admit, I just read the headline and commented right away, (which is rare), but I couldn't help myself.
I admit, I just read the headline and commented right away, (which is rare), but I couldn't help myself.
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