Meta says you can't turn off its new AI tool on Facebook, Instagram

https://globalnews.ca/news/10435817/meta-ai-facebook-instagram/

by cannibalXxx • 2 years ago

56 61 2 years ago

I may of have been alienating myself by not using, nor have never used any of these services. I'm sure it's a root of my depression, but god am I glad I don't.

rolltrunhert2• 2 years ago

I'm with you.

I tried out ChatGPT the first week or so but it is so apparently useless that I have been more and more depressed since then by watching the world get fooled by this illusion. It feels like a really bad magic trick where the whole audience seems to be impressed, while only I saw all the props and fakery.

Having discussions about this with friends and relatives becomes tiresome since they are so happy fantasizing about a future where they only need minimal amount of effort, while I became quite good at spotting GPT output and starting to see the same boring writing style in more and more places.

SoftTalker• 2 years ago

I've never used Facebook, Instagram, WhatApp, Snapchat, ChatGPT, or basically any mainstream social media app or platform.

mrbombastic• 2 years ago

I can relate to being annoyed at the hype but to call chatGPT useless is about as hyperbolic as the AI maximalists who say it will solve all our problems. There are many people right now using it and getting value out of it.

int_19h4• 2 years ago

That same boring writing style is what you get out of GPT if you use its default persona (i.e. what you get from the ChatGPT service). It can be very different when primed accordingly, even via the chat itself (just by telling it to adopt a different persona); it's just that most people who use it as assistant for text composition don't bother to.

kristopolous2• 2 years ago

There's this feature they have now on Instagram where you can chat with different AI personas. It's really terrible. Do people actually use this? It's like trying to form a personal connection with clippy

rootusrootus• 2 years ago

Is that anything like character.ai? If I allowed it, my daughter (13 years old) would spend half her day talking to those bots, she's always asking. Doesn't appeal to me, but to each their own I guess.

tnmom• 2 years ago

Genuine question - why do you allow _any_ time? I don’t have kids, so I’m able to make these large generalizing statements: seems like personal connections to AI chatbots are a form of brain rot.

kristopolous2• 2 years ago

I think I get it. It's relationship practice. An HN equivalent would be like a fake FAANG interview or a fake kleiner perkins AI you can pitch over and over again.

People would probably pay good money for that. Sell it to bootcamps

Zenzero2• 2 years ago

I imagine the steps to get here were:

1) You're an ambitious meta employee trying to get promoted

2) You know leadership is hyped about AI

3) All of the low hanging fruit is gone

threeseed2• 2 years ago

The level of resources to deliver a feature like this is staggering.

There is no reality in which Musk and the SLT are not personally aware of this.

And these features are all just about getting regular feedback to improve the model for future use cases.

JKCalhoun• 2 years ago

I do believe that GossipGPT will be huge.

nothrowaways2• 2 years ago

Do people actually want this?

johnwbyrd• 2 years ago

ME: How can I get you to fuck off and leave me alone?

META AI: I understand that you may be frustrated, but I'm here to help and provide information. I am not capable of taking offense or feeling emotions, but I want to assure you that my purpose is to assist and provide helpful responses. If you have any specific questions or topics you would like to discuss, I am here to help. If you would like to take a break from our conversation, I understand, and you can always come back when you are ready. Please feel free to ask me any questions or clarify how I can assist you further.

There you have it. Meta AI is a stalker.

racional• 2 years ago

Not just Meta of course, but all these companies.

This is the bold new world they are building for us, in a nutshell.

dboreham• 2 years ago

When ChatGPT-25 arrives it'll spontaneously begin chanting "make neural networks great again" and complaining anyone who wants to disable it is engaging in a witch hunt.

jsheard• 2 years ago

taps the sign https://i.imgur.com/Kzenwwm.png

Waterluvian• 2 years ago

I like the spirit but the ugly righteous fervour has me seeking another sign.

talldayo• 2 years ago

In America, service uses you!

Seriously though, the best answer is to just stop using it. If a company does not respect your patronage to their platform, yelling at their robot isn't going to make things better for you. More people just have to learn to click the "Log Out" button and quit being an MAU.

marginalia_nu2• 2 years ago

I wonder what the endgame is, something like NG Resonance[1]? People no longer sharing their life in FB posts, so we're giving them AI friends to share purchase intents with instead?

[1] https://deusex.fandom.com/wiki/NG_Resonance

StableAlkyne2• 2 years ago

Fancy seeing a reference to the least played game in the Deus Ex series!

It's a shame they had to cut the open world concept of the original and simplify it a ton just so they could fit on Xbox

cyanydeez• 2 years ago

How else will it harvest your data and pretend it's still providing valuable service

twoWhlsGud• 2 years ago

Douglas Adams got it at least partly right"

"FORD: They make a big thing of the ship’s cybernetics. “A new generation of Sirius Cybernetics robots and computers, with the new G.P.P. feature.”

ARTHUR: ”G.P.P.”? What’s that?

FORD: Er… It says “Genuine People Personalities”.

ARTHUR: Sounds ghastly.

DOOR: Hummmm-ahhhhh…

MARVIN: It is.

ARTHUR: What?

MARVIN: Ghastly. It all is. Absolutely ghastly. Just don’t even talk about it. Look at this door. “All the doors in this spacecraft have a cheerful and sunny disposition. It is their pleasure to open for you and their satisfaction to close again with the knowledge of a job well done.”

DOOR: Hummm-yummmm…[shuts]

MARVIN: Hateful isn’t it? Come on. I’ve been ordered to take you up to the bridge. Here I am, brain the size of a planet, and they tell me to take you up to the bridge. Call that job satisfaction, cos I don’t.

FORD: Excuse me, which government owns this ship?

MARVIN: You watch this door. It’s about to open again. I can tell by the intolerable air of smugness it suddenly generates… Come on.

DOOR: [Opens] Hummm. Glad to be of service.

MARVIN: Thank you the Marketing Division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation.

DOOR: You’re welcome. Hummmm…[shuts]"

rsynnott• 2 years ago

Sealioning as a service.

nurumaik• 2 years ago

First llm users will be willing to pay to not use

ravroid• 2 years ago

Snapchat beat them to it. Snapchat's "My AI" bot is pinned to the top of your friends list and cannot be unpinned unless you pay for Snapchat+.

vba616• 2 years ago

"Sledge designed the humanoids to help humanity and be invulnerable to human exploitation. However, he eventually realized that they had instead taken control of humanity, in the name of their Prime Directive, to make humans happy

...

No humans may engage in any behavior that might endanger them, and every human action is carefully scrutinized. Suicide is prohibited. Humans who resist the Prime Directive are taken away and lobotomized, so that they may live happily under the direction of the humanoids."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/With_Folded_Hands

rolltrunhert2• 2 years ago

I wouldn't mind if facebook managed to present some interesting suggestions to me with this "AI", because their current algorithms just doesn't work out.

I have been trying to teach their algorithm that I am not interested in Ancient Aliens crap groups, but they keep being suggested to me.

I have probably blocked hundreds of these nonsense groups by now from their suggestions.

My issue seems to be that I am interested in actual archeology, and they seem to not make a distinction.

zb3• 2 years ago

You can turn it off - just move to the EU :)

Aurornis3• 2 years ago

For example, The Associated Press reported that an official Meta AI chatbot inserted itself into a conversation in a private Facebook group for Manhattan moms. It claimed it too had a child in school in New York City, but when confronted by the group members, it later apologized before its comments disappeared, according to screenshots shown to The Associated Press.

Can anyone find an article with these screenshots? The part about the comments just disappearing seems especially hard to believe.

fragmede2• 2 years ago

moderators deleting spam is hard to believe?

klyrs6• 2 years ago

You don't think it's plausible that an engineer would try to delete shit that makes then look bad?

Cacti• 2 years ago

you don’t think it’s plausible a moms group on facebook got trolled by some random person?

Aurornis3• 2 years ago

It’s not at all plausible that a service with billions of users has engineers actively monitoring private conversations and deleting things that look bad, no.

int_19h4• 2 years ago

Why is it hard to believe that comments written by an obviously malfunctioning bot would be deleted by Meta?

Aurornis3• 2 years ago

The article clearly says it was in a “private group” and the disappearance was something that must have occurred at time the article was published (e.g. not as an update to the article after it was reported)

Facebook has billions of users. It wouldn’t even be possible for Meta employees to read every conversation and delete messages that make themselves look bad.

I’m actually perplexed at comments here suggesting such a strange conspiracy theory. Do people actually believe that Meta has people personally reading their private conversations? Even a brief thought about the logistics and scale of such an operation should immediately put such speculation to rest.

fragmede2• 2 years ago

https://www.404media.co/facebooks-ai-told-parents-group-it-h...

nothrowaways2• 2 years ago

Annoying.

bdjsiqoocwk• 2 years ago

Speaking of which Ive getting some AI bs on whatsapp

Meta says you can't turn off its new AI tool on Facebook, Instagram

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