Comment by KaiserPro
1 year ago
If Instagram shows you an old post with a picture thats got a filter on, or grouped some of your pictures together into a frame, saying "look back on your memories and repost" is that an advert?
When your post comes up in the explore page of another user, is that an advert?
what about those stupid "Here is a post from your friends on threads" with most of the stuff cropped off, as soon as you try and click it, its loads the fucking app store?
Meta have done some terrible shit, but this isn't up there. Its not even a mili-cambridge analyitica. (or a pico-myanmar) its just a shitty app in their shitty social network.
It seems like we are just hipster-hate yak shaving on something pointless, and missing the much wider point that the US needs decent data protections laws, and a functioning legislature.
Your examples are not ads, because they are not trying to convince you to buy anything, or even to give Instagram/Meta any more data about yourself. Advertising a completely separate Meta business (Meta AI is not Instagram) is an entirely different thing.
This ad is also nothing what you describe - the user was already a Meta AI user. From the title: "Used Meta AI, now Instagram is using my face on ads targeted at me". So what happened is that Meta AI did a few extra easy image manipulations, and showed it to its user, on the same platform nonetheless, not even on Facebook or something.
We don't know some of this. MetaAI can be used independently of Instagram, I believe, so I don't know if it's certain that the user used it through Instagram. Also, don't they have a paid tier that they are likely trying to get them to upgrade to?
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> Meta business (Meta AI is not Instagram)
Isn't threads a separate "business"?
I fully agree. The reddit post is a nothingburger. It feels like it's more about someone wanting to express themselves, or fish for something that might worth good feedback, than someone who actually has something worthwhile to say.
The actual good that this thing has is some feedback for people, to think about whether they want to use these platforms, or not. Being conscious about stuff like these is what I think does good to the world, and the well-being of people.