"As we have previously reported, the virality of AI-generated slop made and posted by people trying to make money on Facebook has been powered by Meta’s “recommendation” algorithm, which boosts content that was not posted by your friends or anyone you know—and which is often engagement bait—into feeds because it increases engagement and time on site. Wednesday, Zuckerberg explained this strategy in the investor call, and said the new AI feeds would be built with the success of the recommended feed in mind.

“If you look at the big trends in Feeds over the history of the company, it started off as friends, right?,” he said. “So all the updates that were in there were basically from your friends posting things. And then we went into this era where we added in creator content too, where now a very large percent of the content on Instagram and Facebook is not from your friends. It may not even be from people that you’re following directly. It could just be recommended content from creators that we can algorithmically determine is going to be interesting and engaging and valuable to you.”

What he is describing, of course, are social media networks that are not even remotely social and which may increasingly not even feature much human-made content at all. Both Facebook and Instagram are already going this way, with the rise of AI spam, AI influencers, and armies of people copy-pasting and clipping content from other social media networks to build their accounts."

https://www.404media.co/zuckerberg-the-ai-slop-will-continue-until-morale-improves/

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