• lemmyvore@feddit.nl
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    1 year ago

    They see it as free data. Meta will always suck data wherever they can. Remember they have a LLM engine too and lots of money and lots of data to train it on – but more’s even better. They can have swarms of bots trained to spread whatever the highest bidder wants them to spread. They can PR whitewash a brand or a celebrity, they can twist events, they can influence elections.

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      1 year ago

      It was free data to begin with. It’s always been free data. All those internet posts you posted from some lame message board 25 years ago are still there. It’s probably still on Archive.org.

      If you’re concerned about your privacy, don’t post shit you don’t want out there on a public forum.

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      1 year ago

      They probably don’t need to make a whole platform to do this, though. Couldn’t they just slurp the data right out of ActivityPub without making Threads? Either way, I’m dismayed that meta is managing to YET AGAIN convince people that this time they’ll be good

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      1 year ago

      Facebook never operated misleading bots. Companies that ran those bots utilized Facebook as their delivery method.