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Patrick Sharbaugh's avatar

Three cheers for citing Jaron Lanier’s illuminating & prescient “Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now.” I did. And I’ve never once regretted it since.

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Cleo Murphy's avatar

That whole AI profile thing is actually mental. I read some articles as to why they wanted to introduce them in the first place. Two reasons kept popping up, one is to improve engagement. Make these fake profiles comment and create posts to "spark conversation" as overall engagement is declining. The second is to improve the engagement metrics for influencers 🤣 As due to the algorithm reducing posts reach to ACTUAL HUMANS they fill them with fake profiles to view,like and comment. So the influencer economy keeps going. These are two fixes to problems of their own making. It's actually bonkers.

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