During my year-long odyssey into the world of AI-generated slop on Facebook and other Meta platforms, I had come to the conclusion that Meta does not

Zuckerberg: The AI Slop Will Continue Until Morale Improves

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2024-11-02 18:00:05

During my year-long odyssey into the world of AI-generated slop on Facebook and other Meta platforms, I had come to the conclusion that Meta does not mind—and actively likes—the bizarre AI spam that has taken over its platforms. Wednesday, in a call with investors, Mark Zuckerberg made this clear: The AI-generated content will continue until morale improves.

In a quarterly earnings call that was overwhelmingly about AI and Meta’s plans for it, Zuckerberg said that new, AI-generated feeds are likely to come to Facebook and other Meta platforms. Zuckerberg said he is excited for the “opportunity for AI to help people create content that just makes people’s feed experiences better.” Zuckerberg’s comments were first reported by Fortune.

“I think we’re going to add a whole new category of content, which is AI generated or AI summarized content or kind of existing content pulled together by AI in some way,” he said. “And I think that that’s going to be just very exciting for the—for Facebook and Instagram and maybe Threads or other kind of Feed experiences over time.”