It was always run by a psychopath, but 2 decades ago it was really a social platform where you got content posted by people you knew. There is not much left of that.

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fodor 1 point 14 days ago

Well that's just false. I used it in 2005 or so, and it was people I knew.

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Horsey 7 points 14 days ago

My 83 year old grandmother with budding dementia watches nonstop AI generated stories set in pre-industrial times on YouTube, only second to court TV. She says it’s comforting, and she just wants to be entertained with content that feels like the same thing.

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minorkeys 1 point 11 days ago

Meanwhile her perceptions are being shaped by those comfortable fictions. Worse than written fiction? Who knows, we're all test subjects at this point.

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Horsey 1 point 11 days ago

I can’t take it away from her… she gets mad and throws a tantrum.

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minorkeys 1 point 11 days ago

Ah....Good luck with that. Been there myself.

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saltnotsugar 7 points 16 days ago

Facebook is like ragebate for the old folks home.

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kalpol 2 points 15 days ago

Except the old folks home is really bots, and also the ragebait is bots. I don't like where this is heading, because it sounds like we're gonna have a lot of angry bots on our hands.

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Mwa 6 points 16 days ago

We need a AI tag on Facebook ngl

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just2look 36 points 16 days ago

Just stop using Facebook. It is toxic, harvests mass data, conducts experiments on users without consent, and funnels money to an oligarch that is complicit in the destruction of democracy, the environment, and the working class.

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Mwa 2 points 16 days ago

And that's why I don't like it

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aizakku 10 points 15 days ago

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Mwa 2 points 15 days ago

true

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chunkystyles 1 point 15 days ago

Facebook has an "AI Content" flag. But I think it's just for stuff generated with their tools. And if there's text and an image, it doesn't tell you which part is AI.

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Mwa 1 point 15 days ago

so its partially there

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iuseasahibtw 6 points 14 days ago

The boomers are also bots, lol

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LuzTheBuz 4 points 14 days ago

Everytime I opened Facebook recently, all I see are conservatives being butt hurt about anything that isn't conservative. A post about how a Democrat is trying to increase school lunch programs? That'll apparently bankrupt the parents of the kids through taxes. Holding discussions about the water shortages and how to better help farmers? A waste of tax payer money apparently. A proposition to increase taxes for the rich and decrease it for the poor to help part for social services? Well that'll drive out the entire local economy and kill small business. I swear, it's the most delusional shit I've ever seen

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LodeMike 2 points 14 days ago

Facebook makes bank advertising to the optimal ratio of stupidity to wealth possible.

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Honytawk 4 points 14 days ago

Aside from the majority being bots. Why would anyone comment these sorts of one word comments that don't add anything to the discussion? Like, what is the purpose of those?

Is it really that they think their opinion is somehow so important, it is imperative everyone else knows how they feel about a picture of a house? Do they also scream when their food at a restaurant is yummy? Or call everyone over to admire the shit someone left in the toilet?

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Evil_Incarnate 1 point 14 days ago

Amazing 😍

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kingofras 3 points 16 days ago

Every trump ballroom render was genai, and not a single person on Lemmy flagged it either.

If AI provides the red cloth to an audience looking for a red cloth, they will see a red cloth.

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StarvingMartist 9 points 16 days ago

Source? Not that I don't Believe you I just haven't seen this

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kingofras 3 points 16 days ago

Just pull up any of the renders, and look at it for 1 min. E.g. https://www.bdonline.co.uk/...

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Honytawk 1 point 14 days ago

And when were these posted on Lemmy?

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Obituarykidney 4 points 16 days ago

Tbf, even if it wasn't ai it would still just be a render. Not worth looking at it that closely. Last I heard it was still a pile of rubble.

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RememberTheApollo_ 3 points 14 days ago

Does nobody curate their FB feed or use browser plug-ins to remove the garbage? Immediately “X”-ing unwanted ads, people, or pages keeps them at bay for a good while. Plug-ins like “social media fixer” will automatically remove “recommended” and any other unwanted junk you choose via phrase or keyword.

It can be usable and useful for when you want it if you take the time to fix it. I prefer it to reddit these days specifically because I can control what shows up on my screen, unlike reddit cramming in-line ads, suggested /r/ I don’t want to see, and …well, fuck spez for wrecking what used to be a cool place. Otherwise there is no point at all in using it.

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emeralddawn45 1 point 14 days ago

Pretty much anybody who knows how to do those things also knows better than to use Facebook. What do you even go on there for? Also this is like windows fanboy levels of cope. Like "I know this software is designed to spy on everything I do and send all that info back to the literally evil corporation that's fucking over the planet and ruining everything, and I know that's it's objectively bad and terrible to use, but if you just do this list of 100 tweaks and hacks it makes it slightly less terrible!"

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RememberTheApollo_ 2 points 14 days ago

There are several hobby groups as well as industry groups I beong to and use it for.

Could you be more dramatic?

Edit: if you don’t like plug-ins, why don’t you remove all your ad-blockers and anything else you use to make the internet more usable? Seeing as you’re against people using “hacks” to make things usable.

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emeralddawn45 1 point 12 days ago

I mean, when I don't have ad blockers I just don't use the internet. And there's a lot of websites that I wouldn't ever visit again even with an adblocker. Because erasing one tiny part of something terrible doesn't make all the other parts less terrible. Facebook isnt something that can be fixed, it's fundamentally broken by design. It's whole purpose(for the last 10+ years at least) is to be a data-sucking, privacy violating, brain-washing manipulation machine. It was literally rebuilt from the ground up to be as addictive, influential, and invasive as possible. It has no redeeming factors, everything that it once did kinda well can be done much better and much easier in other places that don't have all that baggage.

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RememberTheApollo_ 1 point 12 days ago

Stop straddling the fence. You’re talking out both sides of your face and probably your ass, too. You can’t even obey your own rules. Either the internet is just as broken as facebook and requires tools to fix it and avoid ads, tracking, and tailored feeds, or maybe you should just go ahead and stay off the internet. Whatever, man. Go double-standard someplace else.

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Meatwagon 1 point 14 days ago

The only way to get news from my city utilities, mayor, or literally anything local is through Facebook. They do not have a website. Tons of small towns operate like this.

Why is my water brown? I'll have to log into Facebook to find out.

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emeralddawn45 1 point 12 days ago

They don't have an office with phones? Like fuck that, I'm not signing my life and privacy over to that creepy pervert's panopticon just to be able to check when the town fair is or who's birthday it was on the town council. Or whatever goes on in small towns. I feel like there must also be a newspaper or something?

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Darkonion 2 points 14 days ago

15 years ago someone in their 50s showed me an obvious CGI of a ball bouncing around a bunch of musical instruments miraculously 'playing them' and they thought that was real... And later that year they thought they'd gotten a great deal by buying a fancy RV from someone in Japan for $5000 (shockingly was a scam). They are a frequent enjoyer of facebook today and probably not even the most easily fooled person that age that I know.

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Onomatopoeia 1 point 15 days ago

Boomers?

Haha, everyone I know that use FB are under 50...

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isles 9 points 15 days ago

What a valid sample size

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