If you haven’t left Facebook yet, as I have, you’ve probably noticed a lot of AI spam. I did when I was there and blocked a bunch of it (it was hard to keep up with).

Well, it isn’t just you.

“…What is happening, simply, is that hundreds of AI-generated spam pages are posting dozens of times a day and are being rewarded by Facebook’s recommendation algorithm. Because AI-generated spam works, increasingly outlandish things are going viral and are then being recommended to the people who interact with them. Some of the pages which originally seemed to have no purpose other than to amass a large number of followers have since pivoted to driving traffic to webpages that are uniformly littered with ads and themselves are sometimes AI-generated, or to sites that are selling cheap products or outright scams. Some of the pages have also started buying Facebook ads featuring Jesus or telling people to like the page “If you Respect US Army.”…”

“Facebook’s Algorithm Is Boosting AI Spam That Links to AI-Generated, Ad-Laden Click Farms“, Jason Koebler, 404 Media, March 19, 2024

So not only are the algorithms arbitrarily restricting user accounts, as they did mine, but they’re feeding people with spam to an extent that it wasn’t just noticeable to an individual.

Meanwhile, Facebook has been buying GPUs to develop ‘next level’ AI, when in fact their algorithms are about as gullible as their GPU purchases are numerous.

Glad I left that platform.