Comment by eek2121
4 days ago
There is definitely more to this. I’ve been on Facebook since it opened up to the public, and they know for a fact that I am a guy.
I literally only use it to communicate with family. I logged in today on both desktop and iOS, and the only thing I saw were updates from friends/family that I personally know.The only AI things were from a nerdy friend that created/shared/disclosed of it being AI, the rest was real stuff that I already knew about.
If users are seeing this, it is more likely something to do with settings, Facebook not knowing anything about you, or some other mechanism.
I am absolutely not holding them blameless, I am saying: compare notes and identify the actual problem, because I know a lot of folks using Facebook, and from conversations I had in the past hour or two, none of them see any of that, so there is likely something else going on.
I think they definitely track how long you stay on something as you're scrolling. They show an attractive woman doing your hobby, then it just keeps going.
Yeah it's an optimized skinner box. Any reaction above baseline is sure to be registered and reinforced.
They aren't blameless, friends and family only should be the default even if you don't engage much. Why would they default it to a bunch of junk.