Facebook itself is paying creators in India, Vietnam, and the Philippines for bizarre AI spam that they are learning to make from YouTube influencers and guides sold on Telegram.
so, fb puts a premium on views, because they sell ads like every senator should know by now, and views mean more eyeballs on ads, which means more money. over time this metric became more important to zucc than actual revenue, it seems, but it’s not actually important because they rake so much money either way. they like views so much they decided to give a cut of that ad revenue to select spammers content creators in spammer welfare content creators program. but then again, because of ritual firings in name of Line Go Up fb has no actual moderation so actual high volume spam spreads everywhere
in the other part of the same creatively bankrupt torment nexus in the name of Line Go Up after so many AI winters someone decided to spin up this brain damaged hype train up again. its main utility seems to be 1. manufacturing hype for VCs and stock holders, and 2. mass production of spam. because it’s never repeats it passes many automated spam filters, like the above
managerial corporate ghouls, completely isolated from normal human experience, in pursuit of new numbers to put on their weekly powerpoint presentations and ammo for their office politics created a machine that boils oceans, surveils every box on the internet and corrodes everybody’s attention span, with for now tiny and short lasting side effect of generating shrimp jesus and paying some broke people a livable wage for generating shrimp jesus. that and scammy guides and mentors who grew on top of this, selling shovels for selling shovels for selling shovels
how many layers away from real economy are we now? business gives a cut of profits to ad company, which gives a cut of profits to facebook (that also rakes investor money), which gives a cut of profits to spammers, which give a cut of profits to people who build and maintain spamming automation tools like fewfeed. nothing of this is concerned with making actual things people want to use
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so, fb puts a premium on views, because they sell ads like every senator should know by now, and views mean more eyeballs on ads, which means more money. over time this metric became more important to zucc than actual revenue, it seems, but it’s not actually important because they rake so much money either way. they like views so much they decided to give a cut of that ad revenue to select
spammerscontent creators inspammer welfarecontent creators program. but then again, because of ritual firings in name of Line Go Up fb has no actual moderation so actual high volume spam spreads everywherein the other part of the same creatively bankrupt torment nexus in the name of Line Go Up after so many AI winters someone decided to spin up this brain damaged hype train up again. its main utility seems to be 1. manufacturing hype for VCs and stock holders, and 2. mass production of spam. because it’s never repeats it passes many automated spam filters, like the above
managerial corporate ghouls, completely isolated from normal human experience, in pursuit of new numbers to put on their weekly powerpoint presentations and ammo for their office politics created a machine that boils oceans, surveils every box on the internet and corrodes everybody’s attention span, with for now tiny and short lasting side effect of generating shrimp jesus and paying some broke people a livable wage for generating shrimp jesus. that and scammy guides and mentors who grew on top of this, selling shovels for selling shovels for selling shovels
how many layers away from real economy are we now? business gives a cut of profits to ad company, which gives a cut of profits to facebook (that also rakes investor money), which gives a cut of profits to spammers, which give a cut of profits to people who build and maintain spamming automation tools like fewfeed. nothing of this is concerned with making actual things people want to use
on the other hand, we do get a lot of pretty ladies with bizarre anatomy, so who’s to say if it’s good or bad