Mark Zuckerberg basically just confirmed that your feeds will soon be full of AI-generated content. Another reason the fediverse needs to exist: so that you can follow humans. https://www.theverge.com/24253481/meta-ceo-mark-zuckerberg-ar-glasses-orion-ray-bans-ai-decoder-interview

@ricmac @uastronomer Yeah but how will we prevent AIs from invading the fediverse too?

@ricmac Human Authentication now.

@ricmac The way he talks about forced content being dumped on you that you don't even care about as both a normal thing and a good thing is so, so horrible.

@ricmac I'm not on any Meta platforms and never will be, so this is hitting me with something that feels like culture shock. What are people doing with their lives?

@ricmac You have the fediverse for now....they just basically took over yesterday with the new "foundation" it seems.

@ricmac Yesterday I was on FB and saw the most gorgeous 'sculpture I've ever seen. Everyone loved it and it was tagged as being in some back alley museum in China. It doesn't exist, the artist doesn't exist but AI is definitely here to confuse us.

@ricmac There are a lot of negative externalities with Facebook using GenAI to create content. Nevertheless... Back in the 80s, MIT's Media Lab under Nicholas Negroponte came up with two new directions Media was going: - "Broadcatch" was about taking all the stuff being created and curating a […]

@ricmac they’re going to call it “curated” - puke.

@ricmac That ass is making a lot of assumptions. I am so sick of Mark Zuckerberg and his ugly little world.