Recommendations in the form of ads targeted to humans is a perfect usecase for LLMs. There is no right answer, and the interpreter is a human. Hallucinations dont matter, and if the targeting is a tad bit better, that justifies the investment.
Many social media users are gullible enough to be convinced to act irrationally.
A well-trained AI on great data (which Facebook has) is pretty good at sorting signal from noise, i.e. advertisements that would or would not appeal to a particular user.
This post is on to something.
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The feed is pointless. It would be useful to see things from the groups I'm in. That's not what it shows.
If you're looking at a post and reload the page who knows where you'll end up. Why would you reload? Because it doesn't update the comments. Similarly the back and forward are broken. So I'll be looking at one thing, click to look at the next, click back... be lost, have to go back to the homepage, find the group again, find the post.
It's not that complex a site to be that complex or broken. I'm sure it's broken on purpose (ad serving, engagement etc), but because my usage of it is so narrow I don't see what they're trying to do.
I wish there was a good alternative. There are, of course, alternatives for all the things I do there, but they're not popular enough that I can direct people there.