Zuckerberg Getting Ready To Dump More AI Content To Social Feeds (theverge.com)
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- News link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/10/30/1913228/zuckerberg-getting-ready-to-dump-more-ai-content-to-social-feeds
- Source link: https://www.theverge.com/news/809349/meta-mark-zuckerberg-ai-social-feeds-q3-2025-earnings
> During an earnings call on Wednesday, Zuckerberg said the company will "add yet another huge corpus of content" to its recommendations system as AI "makes it easier to create and remix" work that gets shared online.
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> "Social media has gone through two eras so far," Zuckerberg said. "First was when all content was from friends, family, and accounts that you followed directly. The second was when we added all of the Creator content." Though Zuckerberg stops short of calling AI the third era of social media, it's clear that the technology will be heavily involved in what comes next.
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> Zuckerberg said that recommendation systems that "deeply understand" AI-generated posts and "show you the right content" will become "increasingly valuable." The company has already begun embedding AI tools across its apps and is now experimenting with dedicated AI social apps, too.
[1] https://www.theverge.com/news/809349/meta-mark-zuckerberg-ai-social-feeds-q3-2025-earnings
I use Facebook, without pride (Score:3)
I'm not proud that I use Facebook - eventually I'll just delete the damned thing. But I have to say - the very second I come across anything that is obviously generated AI BS, I turn it off, immediately. I just have no interest in that crap, and I wonder how many others feel the same.
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Same. When I see something like that, I like to look at the comments and it saddens me to see how many people fail to recognize it as AI. I wonder how many of those commenters are also bots.
Unfortunately I think that counts as engagement and boosts the popularity of the post.
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Just reply "Screw your AI slop!"
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I doubt you can delete your account.
I supposedly "deleted" my Instagram account like... 3 years ago.. .making sure Never to accidentally go there, answer emails from them, otherwise they will re-activate it..
Well... today I got an email from Facebook, not spam, telling me that they were changing the .. here....
"Facebook is simplifying settings. As of October 29, 2025, your profile no longer allows public followers. This means that the follower setting for your profile has changed from Public to Friends. Now
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You can delete it. There's a separate procedure for deleting vs simply making dormant, which is what it sounds like you did.
For whom? (Score:2)
> AI-generated posts and "show you the right content" will become "increasingly valuable."
Right and valuable for him, of course.
Not In My Feed! (Score:2)
Because I don't have a Facebook feed or an account. Never did, never will.
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I never bothered either. From what I heard at the time it sounded to me like a large trailer park full of trash. No thanks.
FB is becoming worse every day (Score:2)
I still use it for business, to announce when production runs are finished and products are available, but I don't know how much longer it will be even barely usable. I use the FB Purity tool and it helps a bit, but there is still mostly crap to slog through
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> I still use it for business, to announce when production runs are finished and products are available, but I don't know how much longer it will be even barely usable. I use the FB Purity tool and it helps a bit, but there is still mostly crap to slog through
Same here. I reckon it is around 70 percent AI generated, aside from political misinformation. And some of that stuff is funny, like a picture that supposedly proves the Apollo 11 lunar lander was found by an Indian Space probe. Trouble is, the lander still has the ascent module on it. And people are buying that crap. I do think it is about unusable now, and really expect it is due for a big drop-off.
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I agree, it's getting much less useful and fun to use. I just don't know what those of us *cough* over 30 would actually like using instead.
the internet died, and no one noticed (Score:2)
this is the "dead internet theory"
bot traffic is approaching 100%
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Who needs humans when you can have AI generate every post, attach ads to every post, have AI act as users "viewing" the ads, and self-report extremely high ad views to your real customers, advertisers, who don't get informed that the views are from bots, and if they tried to check, the bots look like real users on the exterior.
More and more people leave (Score:3)
Soon, AI will be the only one left.
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It's damned close now. The ESUIT plugin regularly removed over 95% of the home page, mostly "suggested for you" and reels multiple times.
Re:Soon, AI will be only one left. (Score:1)
And something tells me FaceBook will still be profitable somehow. Maybe enough will sign up for bots to do their shopping (Amazon is researching this), and those bots will use FaceBook ads to make decisions. It would be like 90% of the commerce cycle is bots.
Self awareness is not his strong suit. (Score:5, Informative)
> Zuckerberg said that recommendation systems that "deeply understand" AI-generated posts and "show you the right content" will become "increasingly valuable."
"show you the right content" literally set off the klaxon in my head.
I don't believe Zuck, nor his algorithms or AIs will ever have any clue what "the right content" actually is. It'll be rage engagement at an ever escalating pace until people are bright enough to log off permanently. Good grief.
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Oh, clearly a typo. He meant "show you the right WING content".
no Meta (Score:2)
The more time that goes by the better my decision to never use products from Meta.
Not a moment too soon (Score:2)
Got off FB 15 years ago after joining at the request of a friend. Admittedly, i was able to connect with old friends but it didnt last. Even then people were just spewing poison but when the FCC said they would be keeping data for 7 years, i said goodbye.
FTFZ (Score:2)
> "Social media has gone through two eras so far," Zuckerberg said. "First was when all content was from friends, family, and accounts that you followed directly. The second was when we started shoving lots of unavoidable ads into your feed."
Fixed That For Zuckerberg
His so-called "third era" is obviously just a fine-tuing of the second era - now the ads will be AI-driven in hopes that it'll make Facebook even more money.
And the fourth wave... (Score:2)
The human consumers are replaced with bots so you have the pure and perfect computer responsible for all aspects of social interaction on the social media sites. The company replaces its staff with bots, and then the company can be a pure profit-making venture free of the liabilities of customers, employees, or products.
Luckily I'm on Slashdot (Score:2)
where the AI slop have been the main posters for years.
Interesting reaction to this news (Score:3)
After Meta announced its earnings on Wednesday, and presumably this announcement was part of the earnings call, Meta's stock dropped, [1]erasing $237 billion in value [marketwatch.com].
As the article relates, "Meta's spending is hard to rationalize, some analysts say, as it's uncertain whether heavy investments in AI will generate compelling returns"
Further down in the article, "Significant investment in Superintelligence despite unknown revenue opportunity mirrors 2021/2022 metaverse spending," Oppenheimer analysts said, referring to Meta's recently formed Superintelligence Labs focused on AI that would surpass human knowledge. After Wall Street panned earlier metaverse-spending plans, Meta went through a "year of efficiency" focused on cost cuts.
Take this as you will.
[1] https://www.marketwatch.com/story/metas-stock-slides-toward-its-worst-day-in-years-as-wall-street-pans-runaway-ai-spending-3c563d6f?mod=home_lead
Dead Internet theory (Score:2)
I miss when it was a conspiracy theory.
The 'Right' Content (Score:2)
The Right Content for Me: Things my friends say and experience that help me feel close to them
The Right Content for Zuckerberg: Whatever keeps people engaged, no matter how outlandish, offensive, exploitative, oppressive, or racist
We are using words differently, which is why I don't interact with any of Zuck's properties.
New title suggestion (Score:2)
"Zuck takes a dump on Threads"
My own experience on social media recently was looking at a YouTube video on a device where I was not logged into YouTube. Watched the vid I wanted, then of course a new one pops up and I lazilly/habitually start to watch it, even though inane. About 45 seconds in, I'm like this can't be right...poke around a bit and yeah, at the start was a tiny icon "Sora" that flashed for a moment. I was watching AI slop. Done with that. Eventually 90% of YT..99.9% Facebook/Insta w
Re: New title suggestion (Score:2)
AI content will attract some attention and detract others. FB lost its luster while ago but still has a massive lead in users. It is easy to check updates from friends and family and skip over the junk. Still it is in the way.
Didn't we do this already? (Score:2)
Isn't all that Facebook is today just a bunch of "creators" posting to bot accounts?
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Just crap posters posting crap, My wife still insists on using facebook but does complain when it's all rubbish for post after post before she finds something from a friend.
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Mostly - same for X.com - it's all campaign generated junk, consumed and echoed by bots and paid trolls.
It's TurtleGPTs all the way down! (Score:1)
To misquote C-3PO: "Bots friending bots!? How perverse!"
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Yeah, this already happened. I already see a lot of AI generated slop being posted to various Facebook groups.
I try blocking them, but for some reason Facebook seems to treat this as "engagement" and then sends my posts for similar groups posting the same crap.
Its risky not to make a facebook account (Score:3)
I have one because several people I know have had accounts that impersonate them appear on facebook, befriend people who they're connected to on other social networks and try to scam them. I didn't want this to happen to me so I created a fb account.
Basically facebook's criminally shitty moderation coerces people who have a large and vulnerable public presence on the internet, such as teachers, pastors, local officials, etc into doing this.
I suspect this kind of scam is likely to increase with the rise in A
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Even if you have a Facebook account, people still create impersonation accounts. In fact, it's easier because they can simply grab your profile picture from Facebook instead of searching on the web.
I'm not on Facebook and all the friends that I care about know I'm not on Facebook and would not be fooled by an impersonator. And I'm not famous enough that anyone would care to impersonate me to the general public or to strangers. So nope... no Facebook account for me (or X or Instagram or TikTok or any of
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This is true, but its preferable to me to have all my "friends" already friended with me rather than the impersonator. I don't think my way is the only way, I'm not going to tell anyone not to stay off fb, your method may well be more effective. Of course all my close friends know if I'm not facebook or not - but not my aunts and cousins and old highschool friends and coworkers and past buisness collegues ex girlfriends, ex girlfriend's mothers, neighbors etc.
What the impersonators often seem to do is find
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Yes, I understand what you're saying, but being on Facebook doesn't prevent people from impersonating you.
The only difference is that if you are already on Facebook, then a clone you trying to friend someone you're already connected to looks suspicious. But even then, I bet there's a 50% or more chance that someone will think "Oh, I guess OP re-created his/her FB account and I'll accept the friend request."
It's a giant mess.
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I've seen quite a few friends get their profiles scraped and copied and Friend requests sent out to everyone they know, FB now often takes them down before I get a chance to report them. But the scrapers are now making the regular name just symbols and putting the real name in as a display name. And now they're rotating the profile pictures too.
FB doesn't seem to see a profile with a different main name And a rotated picture as a scam, or perhaps they're hoping that the details are different enough that
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Yes it is, but now Meta can have AI creators optimized to feed the content out in a controlled way to users. And they don't have to pay for content. Double win for meta. Double loss for consumers. I don't know why anyone would be on facebook right now.
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I read your post and immediately remembered Clara Oswald saying nearly the same thing.
Life follows art again.