After months of digging and reporting, I have learned where Facebook's bizarre AI spam (like "Shrimp Jesus") comes from, who is making it, how it works, and how it is monetized.
Turns out Meta is directly paying people to spam FB with this stuff
https://www.404media.co/where-facebooks-ai-slop-comes-from/
Jason Koebler /
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2024-08-06 14:17:06
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