Art by Mrlovenstein
Oh no, there are millions and millions of boomers who are thoroughly addicted to that site and will happily consume AI generated content.
I went on there and saw a post about log cabins. That was some generic caption like “bet you wish you could live there”. The image was very clearly AI generated with things like floating lanterns and walls that didn’t need any support. Didn’t stop the literally over 20K comments of “you bet!” And “beats the city!” And a thousand other generic cliche responses. Which probably about half are also bot related but just as many are brain dead humans
Many of the replies are boomers whose accounts have been compromised but not detected - they just haven’t noticed the bot posts
They will consume regardless of who made the content, they are already believing every bullshit written by humans. When AI spills some deep woven conspiracy stories in the future, complete with unbelievable images “proving” the “incidents”, they will eat it up.
There’s already a creepy trend with AI generated Trump + god + beer + guns mashups floating around. Many seem to eagerly embrace the uncanny visuals of most AI generated images.
It must be really nice being able to suspend all reality like they can
My dad was corrupted by social media. It’s getting a bit better, because he doesn’t have unlimited computer access anymore. But not long ago, his first sentence, after we hadn’t talked for a while, was: “What do you think about the woke agenda?”
He really suspended his real life and was almost 24/7 online and got deep in the wrong meta neighborhood.
My father was never like that before, i hope it’s not some state of perception that many of us are doomed to have sometime, because it’s age related.
I’m sorry to hear that. I “lost” my father in the same way. He was always conservative (listened to Rush when I was a kid), but he went from casually conservative to full MAGA radicalized thanks to facebook and modern social media. I went to his facebook a few years back and saw some of the most hateful vitriolic content. I asked him how he could do that to people who helped raise me, that I had both LGBTQ and mixed race teachers, leaders, friends, all of whom have been incredibly important to me. It did not go well. I had to tell him to allow his hate speech would be a disservice to everyone else who had such a profound impact on me, and told him if he loses the hate we can have a relationship again.
That was 6 years ago. Haven’t heard from him since.
I hope your dad is doing better than mine. I’ve seen others confirm what you said, that just cutting out the source will see a return to semi normalcy - the propaganda depends on a constant drip. Just disconnecting them from the feed can have a huge positive impact.
They can also watch the ads and click on them to increase metrics.
Just don’t let the bots get near your wallet.
