I check Facebook a few times a week mainly to stay updated on family and friends and to wish the occasional happy birthday (I’m not a heavy user). Meta aggressively pushes AI-generated “slop” reel videos in my feed, which I mostly ignore. It’s depressing that there must be an audience for this low-effort content. The videos recommended to me are often AI reels featuring obese people doing something “unexpected.” They’re not particularly interesting, and they feel like they’re mocking people with weight issues which isn’t cool.
It’s a little janky, presumably Meta has a few developers constantly working to hinder it. But still can mostly get rid of that kind of crap.
vpShane•6h ago
I stopped using social media even to stay connected - I look at hacker news to stay up to date with tech, and reddit for cyber security related subs but the FBPurity I installed a year or so ago, and my account was still small just friends and family of maybe ~30-50 people. Mostly, for an animal shelter I volunteer at and community events.
Installing it, scrolling down was constant sponsor ads being blocked, reels of women from bot accounts that steal influencers' videos and repost them, new-age spirituality memes 'Let go of what does not serve you' and 'Return to Source to find your real self' - quotes from philosophers who never said the quote, 'How to hack' tutorial images -- all removed from fbpurity
I'd have to scroll for a minute before getting anything from the local community groups, the shelter's posts, and rarely did I see somebody else's post, and usually it was talking about Trump or politics or 'are we in a simulation?' but for the most part it's all brain rot.
Toxic, deceptive brain rot. There's no use trying to get others to exit the psychological magnet that has them hooked and doom scrolling and posting non-stop with their views.
The botfarms would plague every local community group and most people activity were calling out the bots. Bots swaying the comments on posts' comment sections for local news, people getting LIVID in the comments over trolls/bots.
Businesses being FB exclusive only with no Google presence, no maps presence.
Delete it, trust me, you'll be happier. There is no 'purity'
> Fox News fell for a similar fake video, treating it as an example of public outrage over the abuse of food stamps in an article that has since been removed from its website.
Did they really "fall for it" or were they just laundering the intent to publish false information through incompetence?
thegrim33•6h ago
All major communication forums on the internet have been mass manipulated/poisoned by countries across the world for well over a decade now. A huge chunk of all internet speech is inauthentic. In my mind, AI videos really don't degrade the situation much further. The internet as a communication medium has already been completely compromised for a long time.
What % of HN is bots/AI do we think? This is the only site I use that has any social part to it, and I'm beginning to think that many of the comments aren't real. I don't know if it's in my head - but it all feels off to me. Either that or it's just a different crowd from years ago.
cebert•8h ago
acheron•7h ago
It’s a little janky, presumably Meta has a few developers constantly working to hinder it. But still can mostly get rid of that kind of crap.
vpShane•6h ago
Installing it, scrolling down was constant sponsor ads being blocked, reels of women from bot accounts that steal influencers' videos and repost them, new-age spirituality memes 'Let go of what does not serve you' and 'Return to Source to find your real self' - quotes from philosophers who never said the quote, 'How to hack' tutorial images -- all removed from fbpurity
I'd have to scroll for a minute before getting anything from the local community groups, the shelter's posts, and rarely did I see somebody else's post, and usually it was talking about Trump or politics or 'are we in a simulation?' but for the most part it's all brain rot.
Toxic, deceptive brain rot. There's no use trying to get others to exit the psychological magnet that has them hooked and doom scrolling and posting non-stop with their views.
The botfarms would plague every local community group and most people activity were calling out the bots. Bots swaying the comments on posts' comment sections for local news, people getting LIVID in the comments over trolls/bots.
Businesses being FB exclusive only with no Google presence, no maps presence.
Delete it, trust me, you'll be happier. There is no 'purity'
xnx•6h ago
hackerknew•42m ago