It has become clear to me over the past week that Facebook is using AI to do an incredible amount of 'work,' and that both Facebook and AI are very bad at all parts of this.
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It has become clear to me over the past week that Facebook is using AI to do an incredible amount of 'work,' and that both Facebook and AI are very bad at all parts of this.
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Hacker spouse thinks they are likely on the receiving end of coordinated foreign attacks, or that they have been warned that they imminently will be, and have rolled out new levels of AI filters, blocks, and security protocol based on that.
This seems plausible.
Again, however: they are TERRIBLE at it.
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I dropped my phone on its face on concrete while we were in Europe (little souvenir with love from Rotterdam) and had to wait until we were done with Covid to replace it. That happened ten days ago and holy shit, the multilevel tech-blocked hell I have been in since using that new phone to log in to my FB account.
I was locked out entirely for a week. Then I was in. Getting in took both external and internal intervention of a sort not really publicly available. Then I hit the back button on my phone browser and was level-10 blocked all over again. Cue more intervention.
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Since then I have been lower-level barred 9 times, though fortunately my account is now set up in a way that provides a back door and a side door along with the front one. But now that I've been singled out by its tech, something has been triggered that just cannot stop. It's fascinating, really- I have learned so much about how this coordinated net is intended to (not) work. But man, the LEVELS of programmed hypervigilant incompetence, none of which care if 10,000 people are bycatch so long as the company doesn't need to engage in actual work with actual humans ... it's really something.
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This has been gestured toward elsewhere, but I'll put a really fine point on it: I am not persuaded that FB actually cares about its social media platform at all. Sort of like Harvard now being a hedge fund with classrooms attached, meta is a data harvesting and selling operation (and also a hedge fund) with a community platform attached. People have been saying for a very long time that FB doesn't care what happens on its networks as long as it makes money- what I am saying is that they also don't care if people can log in, if your account remains accessible to you (it will de facto remain accessible to them regardless of what you do), etc. You matter zero and the social platform itself doesn't matter much more, which is interesting. Clearly not where the company is headed.
I wonder if the thought is that WhatsApp and Insta will cover their info-gathering and phone snooping needs, respectively.
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@jnl I get the sense that these days Meta views Facebook-the-app the way a mining company views a played-out mine -- something to be wrung out on a shoestring until the last drop of value has been extracted
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@SnerkRabbledauber @jnl It feels like "managed decline" is basically everyone's job these days