Facebook now wants to write your posts for you with AI. ( lemmy.world )

Please do not give me shit for using Facebook. It’s how I keep in touch with relatives, most of whom live abroad, and my brother, who is has ASD prefers to communicate with me that way.

I would rather not use it, but I would prefer keeping in touch with my brother.

That said, I would not let AI keep in touch with my brother for me.

SLVRDRGN ,

This would certainly fit under /ABoringDystopia

phoenixz ,

Great! Even more ways to fake like I care about my family.

I actually care abouty family, but doing it with Facebook is just posturing anyway

Churbleyimyam ,

I actually quite like the idea of facebook becoming a few billion bots nattering away at each other on Meta’s dime.

cupcakezealot ,
@cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

pls bring back web 1.0

Zacryon ,

Your relatives should stop using facebook.

skulkbane ,

I like AI tools and helpers, but I’m starting to feel like we are making the fake bot content part of the regular experience?

It’s social media, I want people not bots.

DillyDaily ,

My dad now uses AI to write all his texts to me.

He’s autistic and dyslexic and texting was always a massive struggle for him, so he’d leave voice messages, or just call me, and they’d be rambling and non linear, but it was my dad and his voice, his personality.

A few years ago he’d use dictation to send texts, and it was pretty funny because he hadn’t no way of proof reading them and dictation is never great for people with accents or speech problems… but now he will just use the microphone to ask whatever AI assistant is built into his phone the same rambling question he would have previously just voice messaged me.

And Copilot re-writes his rambling question and spits out a message that sounds like some formal business email. So now there’s an extra level of misinterpretation, an extra level of being removed from communicating with the human being.

I’ve asked my dad if he finds AI easier than just leaving a voice message (because I personally think sending a voice memo is easier) and he says he likes it because it makes him feel like he’s “normal” and can do the things everyone else has always been able to do with ease, even though he knows its not perfect.

I can definitely see the value in AI as an accommodation tool, and it has helped my dad a lot in his professional life where previous accommodation tools haven’t been adequate to “keep up”.

But I do miss hearing my dad, or reading his personality come through in the poorly dictated texts. My brother has gotten really annoyed at dad for this because my brother it’s also autistic and it’s actually harder for him to communicate with dad with an AI middle man, they’ve lived together for almost 30 years and they basically have their own language, so the AI texts my brother gets from my dad drive him nuts, when he and my dad have never had issues communicating.

I’m also worried that it’s effecting the limited literacy skills he does have, he’s getting rusty because he no longer has to try at all most days.

fathog ,

That’s a super interesting perspective on this stuff. Sorry you’re going through that internet brother - I hope you can communicate to your dad that he’s loved the way he is. Definitely seems to be true

SuddenDownpour ,

I take it you’ve already expressed to him that you miss feeling like you’re actually communicating with him? I doubt it’d be a magic pill that would solve the issue away, but it would likely help if he could interiorize that his loved ones appreciate him for being who he is. I wish things get better for you.

DillyDaily ,

Oh definitely, he knows, but I also know and understand his perspective. For him, masking and unmasking when texting his boss then texting his family is exhausting and incredibly emotionally taxing. While I don’t meet the clinical criteria for an autism diagnosis, I do struggle with a few of the same things my brother and dad struggle with, particularly around processing, emotional regulation, and burn out, so I’ve been in his shoes where I know I’m doing something the hard way, or I know we’d all be happier with another method, but changing the task or changing the routine or process is even harder, even though the process I’d be changing to would be easier and better, initiating that change feels like an insurmountable climb.

Besides, my dad had to try and put up with my hyperlexia when I was growing up - before I had the emotional maturity to understand my dad’s needs, I can’t even imagine how much he suffered from my frustrating communication style being imposed on him. Now he’s older, it’s my turn to suffer 😂 (that is, it’s my turn to let him explore the ways he wants to communicate, even if it’s not what I want.)

Notyou ,
@Notyou@sopuli.xyz avatar

It’s just the start of bots talking to each other. Pretty soon we will see the start of Cybertron and the bots will take over all.

UnderpantsWeevil ,
@UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world avatar

2018: It feels like everything on the Internet is bots now

2024: Facebook has an app that AI generates photos and writes posts for a vacation I’ve never been on

MrsDoyle ,

Far-away family are the only reason I use FB too. My sister and some of my nieces use it to a disturbing degree, “checking in” when they’re in restaurants etc, posting “memories”, pictures of their kids. My sister has a special pose for her FB selfies - head tilt, fake smile. I hate it all with a burning fire, even when I’m clicking the heart button on a puppy photo.

AI just seems like another step closer to the abyss, the death of true creativity.

Starkstruck ,

Soon social media will be entirely automated, requiring no human input!

But fr wtf is the point of this 💀

minkymunkey_7_7 ,

Just another step to the Matrix.

fossphi ,

As infuriating and abusive Facebook is, this just feels sad. It hits in a different way. So dystopic

Carighan ,
@Carighan@lemmy.world avatar

That would, given most facebook posts, massively improve the quality.

toynbee ,

Unless it’s trained on preexisting Facebook posts.

2deck ,
@2deck@lemmy.world avatar

Next; we’ll automatically share that you’re interested in products. But noone cares because it’s just stupid language models reading content from other stupid language models. People stop buying things because they’ve detached from social media with posts becoming parodies of themselves and irony doesn’t really lead anywhere new.

HappyRedditRefugee ,

People stop buying things because they’ve detached from social media

What do you mean by that? Social media is quite popular.

Panurge987 ,

Peter Noone cares?

Axle182 ,

You can disable your Facebook account and keep using messenger if you want, that’s what I do

UnaSolaEstrellaLibre ,

Social media going full throttle with dead internet theory.

KonalaKoala ,
@KonalaKoala@lemmy.world avatar

I just hope they don’t come up with dead fediverse theory next.

Rozauhtuno ,
@Rozauhtuno@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

The fediverse is alive and active, but unfortunately every single account is just an alt of The Picard Manouver.

hungryphrog ,
@hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

As a totally real human being, my account most certainly is not an alt of The Picard Manouver. Nope. Of course not.

SuddenDownpour ,

As an alt of The Picard Manouver, I can attest to that.

kromem ,

This may ultimately be a good thing for social media given the propensity of SotA models to bias away from fringe misinformation (see Musk’s Grok which infuriated him and his users for being ‘woke’ - i.e. in line with published research).

As well, to bias away from outrage porn interactions.

I’ve been dreaming of a social network where you would have AI intermediate all interactions to bias the network towards positivity and less hostility.

This, while clearly a half-assed effort to shove LLMs anywhere possible for Wall Street, may be a first step in a more positive direction.

FlyingSquid OP ,
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I’ve been dreaming of a social network where you would have AI intermediate all interactions to bias the network towards positivity and less hostility.

I don’t know that is a realistic idea. I don’t know if AI at our current level could accurately discern positivity from hostility well enough. There’s too much emotion in language that I think would require a deep understanding of emotion itself to sort that out properly.

kromem ,

It absolutely could.

With a reference frame constructed from over 500 adults, we tested a variety of mainstream LLMs. Most achieved above-average EQ scores, with GPT-4 exceeding 89% of human participants with an EQ of 117.

We first find that LLM agents generally exhibit trust behaviors, referred to as agent trust, under the framework of Trust Games, which are widely recognized in behavioral economics. Then, we discover that LLM agents can have high behavioral alignment with humans regarding trust behaviors, particularly for GPT-4, indicating the feasibility to simulate human trust behaviors with LLM agents.

A lot of people here have no idea just how far the field actually has come from dicking around with the free ChatGPT and reading pop articles.

possiblylinux127 ,
@possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip avatar

The quality of Facebook will tank

supercriticalcheese ,

Will anyone notice?

possiblylinux127 ,
@possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip avatar

My grandma will

whostosay ,

Lmfao, when?

Negative 10 years from now?

Should we hold our breath?

Evotech ,

If anything it’ll probably improve. At least AI can spell.

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