hot off the presses: automatic wrong information without even going to the wrong-information deliveries store (theconversation.com)

submitted 5 months ago by froztbyte@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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there are some remarkable instances of bad behaviour in there already, but imagine being the sort of product team that thinks users being gaslit by a chatbot that they couldn’t even consent to choose to use is totes something to deliver without any modification or remark

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[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

For me Facebook no longer works. I don't know if it is just facebook being weird, or a combination of adblockers which they are trying to fight against, but when I go to facebook I see 4-5 posts of people I follow, and then an endless list of memelike 'you might be interested in this' joke etc posts it is mega weird.

Edit: now I see only 1 post from my friends/family. I need to shift-f5 to see a different one. The rest is all 'follow this generic thing you don't care about (a % of which are also sexist/racist so well done there FB, even saw a Yukio Mishima meme)')

[-] jonhendry@iosdev.space 5 points 5 months ago

@Soyweiser @BlueMonday1984

Same. Some days are worse than others: a couple groups I follow, maybe a person I follow, then 17 ads or random pages or groups. Then 2 or 3 I follow, etc.

Often the posts from people/groups I follow are days or a week old and I’ve seen them many times but never clicked on them.

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 4 points 5 months ago

Yeah it gives me groups. Most are relevant to my interests! But I mute them all cos that's not what I'm there for.

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 3 points 5 months ago

Muting them doens't even work, it is only for 30 days, and I never see a friend posts when this is going on. It is just endless new crap. I have no idea why, but I don't care enough to find out, don't think I go there more than once a month at most.

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