People Are Disgusted by Facebook’s Plan to Deploy AI-Powered “Users”
Folks on Reddit are in an uproar after Meta announced that it’s planning to load Facebook up with AI “users,” which are better known as bots. First reported by the Financial Times, this plan to populate the dying social network with these so-called “characters” is geared towards driving engagement — even though other platforms, including Meta’s Instagram, have been roiled with unauthorized bots for years. “We expect these AIs to actually, over time, exist on our platforms, kind of in the same wa