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[-] kandoh@reddthat.com 21 points 1 day ago

Interesting watching social media turn into... Just media. Nothing social about it anymore, It's little bite sized chunks of infotainment.

[-] Rooty@lemmy.world 56 points 1 day ago

I'm all for corporations souring their dopamine pipes. Perhaps it may encourage the users to do something useful with their free time, maybe even pick up a book or two (said he, while scrolling Lemmy in bed).

[-] mPony@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago

Discworld isn't gonna read itself.

[-] Rooty@lemmy.world 1 points 22 hours ago

Listening to the Hogfather while doing chores rn 😀

[-] Rekall_Incorporated@lemm.ee 11 points 1 day ago

I suspect they anticipate exponential increases in ML generated content creation quality and/or they expect that users will gobble up AI slop and it won't effect medium/long term engagement growth.

[-] Rooty@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I guess so, but engagement does not equal revenue, and the models are black boxes that are already falling apart. I have no idea where exponential improvement should come from - throwing more and more computational power into the maw can only get you so far.

[-] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 day ago

Instagram should have been a weed delivery service

[-] xthexder@l.sw0.com 6 points 1 day ago

Likewise, AirDrop should have been a drone-based delivery service. Maybe they could partner up!

[-] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 2 points 23 hours ago

I thought AirDrop was a service for scuba divers

[-] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

How about they make the app stop refreshing my feed when I have to put the phone down for a second? Got real tired of losing what I was looking at when I re-opened it. I stopped using Instagram because of it.

[-] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 30 points 1 day ago

Their logo is literally a camera so what’s the point of the app then? Though I’ve heard it’s absolutely overrun with AI slob anyway just like Facebook itself. ‘Social’ networks just can’t help themselves becoming the dead internet theory, can they?

[-] sunglocto@lemmy.zip 23 points 1 day ago

Sharing photos was the point of the app 6 years ago. Now the point is to either meticulously modify yout online image to look like the coolest person on the world - or just spampost memes/porn/disinformation to get followers and brand deals

Tim Berners-Lee, lying on floor, groans

[-] Evotech@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

The point is to return vale to the shareholders

[-] Rekall_Incorporated@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago

In case of Meta, this not actually true.

They have a dual layer share structure where Zuck holds special class share that provide him full control even if he doesn't have a majority of "ownership class" shares.

I mean, I am sure Zuck wants "line go up", but we are at point where it's more like his personal fiefdom and he can tell shareholders to bugger off and let him burn $46 Billion on his weird metaverse fetish.

[-] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The ungodly rich batards have created another reason the French were so on point

[-] Free_Opinions@feddit.uk 1 points 1 day ago

Instagram was such a great platform in the early days when it was for the most part used by photographers. I lost my interest in it when they started forcing videos instead. Even photographers needed to make videos of still photos in order to get any visibility.

[-] Australis13@fedia.io 12 points 1 day ago

Ugh. I hope they clearly flag AI content and allow users to filter it.

[-] Cyber@feddit.uk 9 points 1 day ago

I was thinking the same, but then thought, no, let the platform burn down with faked videos now, so that we get some kind of “Generated with AI” watermark requirement by law on all future videos to prevent destabilising society.

[-] Free_Opinions@feddit.uk 2 points 1 day ago

They already require you to tag content made with AI.

[-] Link@rentadrunk.org 1 points 16 hours ago

AI will eventually get so good that you won’t be able to tell if it is AI or not so the tag will become unenforceable.

[-] Free_Opinions@feddit.uk 1 points 11 hours ago

If it's so good that it's impossible to tell from human-made content then it literally doesn't matter wether it's real or not as there's no difference.

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