So you believe the company Facebook itself is making the posts?
The latest one on my FB feed is a supposed photo of Devil’s Tower with a ginormous orange moon behind it that actually dwarfs the tower in size and has an enormous amount of moon terrain detail.
I also belong to an Alaska group where it’s fairly easy to identify fakery, as I’m familiar with a large portion of the state. People try to pass off photos of the Rockies as being photos of the Alaska Range or Denali, etc.
I don’t know if they are creating the posts but I’m pretty sure they’re encouraging them in any way they can. I believe they have algorithms that could push such click-baiting posts to more users.
Coincidentally, I just saw a supposed photo of Devil’s Tower but inverted; one reply called it “Devil’s Toilet Bowel”!
Virtually everything* about the account which posted it is fake, even the profile pic, and the supposed location** was obviously written by a bot.
*It apparently posted a few real pictures before starting on the generated ones.
**City, City, State, Country, State – Paraphrasing Venkman, " No human being would write a location like that."
Yeah, I saw that one too. I’ve been to Devil’s Tower, so it made me laugh. This morning’s weirdness was a photo of Bryce Canyon labeled “Denali National Park”. I don’t respond to that sort of thing because that’s what the poster wants you to do.
Speaking of addresses, I’ve also recently seen AI-generated flowers from two different “gardeners” and both ostensibly from this block of flats.
Plenty of grass and trees but where do they garden?
Narrator: They don’t; the repetition in their street addresses indicate more bots.
Not that I doubt the flowers were fake, but people who live in flats sometimes have allotments; there are two allotment sites within easy walking distance of Hilldrop Lane.
These accounts are presented as commercial ventures, though.
At risk of a possible mod wrist-slap, I feel I must share my highly relevant gardening Substack post on this subject.
Come to think of it, I also recently saw a bot which lists 26 Federal Plaza, New York, NY, United States, New York as its address.
The HIVE AI-detector wasn’t any help here but, unless those are beings from outer-space…
I’m easily amused by posters of AI-generated content with completely irrelevant locations. My favorite so far is a “food & drink” page ostensibly from a H&R Block.
Ryan Georg
Something’s changed; checked Facebook twice today and my feed has only been populated by posts from the groups I’m in or followed accounts. No AI garbage at all.
Dunno what but something has definitely changed.
Just checked again and the only garbage is the typical “sponsored” bull.
I’m getting a lot of reels Andcommercials that are in Spanish, which I don’t speak.
“People You May Know” has been getting weird, though. Just in the past few days, I’ve dismissed:
- various “Emergency Housing” accounts.
- several different “Jodie Foster” accounts.
- several random women in a “twerking” pose.
- a handful of different “Silicone Baby” accounts.
Today it’s homes, puppies, kittens, and a horse. Weird.
Sounds like a cognitive memory test.
Safe bet that some sort of scam is involved with those accounts. I made the mistake of trying to purchase something via Facebook once. Never again!