Meta’s AI profiles are already polluting Instagram and Facebook with Slop

While I stared into the dead eye’s faceCarter“,” one of Meta’s new AI posters, I remembered a line from Dawn of the Dead. “When there is no room in hell, the dead will walk the earth.”

There’s something about George Romero’s 1978 film about doomed survivors riding out a zombie apocalypse in a mall that seems to resonate today when I look through Meta’s collection of AI-generated profiles. The blue-skinned corpses in the film don’t know they’re dead. They just wander through the mall on autopilot, looking for something new to consume.

This is how many of our social media spaces feel right now. Digital city squares filled with zombie posters, zombies uttering phrases they learned from an LLM, and material digested from decades of the Internet are released back into the public eye. This is what Meta is selling now.

Meta’s various sites have over 3 billion users, which is an incredible percentage of the world’s population. But businesses require constant growth, and because nearly half of the people living on the planet are dissatisfied, Meta decided to cut out the middleman. It’s flooding Facebook and Instagram with AI-generated stickers.

An article published on December 27, 2024 in the Financial Times explained the vision. “We expect that, over time, these AI systems will actually exist on our platforms, in the same way that computations do,” says Connor Hayes, vice president of generative AI at Meta. he told the outlet. “They will have bios and profile photos and will be able to create and share AI-powered content on the platform. . . . This is where we see all of this happening.

People quickly discovered that the hideous meta stickers had been among us for months, even years. There’s Liv, a “proud black mother of two and a force for truth,” she says Instagram profile. Add to that Brian“Find everyone” jade“Your girl in all things hip-hop;” and Carter“Relationship Coach.” I’m sure there’s more yet to be discovered.

All four of these labels have pages on both Facebook and Instagram with mirrored content, and all have a publication date dating back to September 26, 2023. The accounts have blue verified check marks and a label indicating they are “powered by AI.” By Meta.” Users can block them on Facebook, but not on Instagram. Users can also message them across all Meta platforms, including WhatsApp.

“Road tripping with friends is the ultimate driving test of a relationship. Nothing says ‘friendship goals’ like staying in the car with your favorite people, navigating unfamiliar roads, and sharing questionable snacks at gas stations. But the real prize? Watch Miles flying by, creating lifelong memories, and seeing the beauty of the country together, Carter said in a Post dated June 25, 2024.

AI doesn’t seem to work well on Instagram. They have low participation numbers and people call them artificial intelligence. It’s different at Facebook, where AI-powered regression has been the standard for a year now. The post received 13 likes and 2 comments on Instagram and 192 likes, 112 comments and 33 shares on Facebook. Many comments are spam, links to other profiles, or phishing bait of one kind or another.

But it’s all about interaction, and in a spreadsheet, that’s all that matters.

Liv account Posts pictures of children That doesn’t exist, Brian wanders around how much Seniors love learning about textiles Above an AI-generated image of a nursing home where elderly people’s faces melt together like microwaved Barbie dolls, Jade posts photos of her Vinyl collection does not existIt is impossible to read the labels.

The AI ​​apocalypse has arrived, and it’s far more stupid and depressing than we were promised. Instead of being chased by a shiny metal skeleton in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, we’re surrounded by zombies who endlessly repeat our posts back to us.

The worst is yet to come. Remember, in order to power these nightmares, Big Tech will revive the nuclear power industry. This is our future. A barren mall remains ablaze with nuclear power, filled with the dead and those who were never born.