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ElectricLego t1_ja6di05 wrote

Not sure whether this is just a joke but it's totally believable and hilarious either way. The Internet is so full of recipes that want to tell you 6 pages about abuela in the old country before a crappy guacamole recipe they copied from the food channel.

This is exactly what's going to proliferate if learning/mimicking models keep gaining popularity. I'll be a downward spiral of copypasta. The more of this stuff that gets posted as original content, the worse it'll become as other ones copy it.

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happy_snowy_owl t1_ja6ahps wrote

>Instagram also announced last year it would be leaning harder into algorithmic recommendation of content. On Meta’s second-quarter earnings call, CEO Mark Zuckerberg noted that Reels videos accounted for 20 percent of the time people spent on Instagram, saying that Reels engagement was “growing quickly” and that the company saw a 30 percent increase in the amount of time people spent engaging with Reels.

No, Mr. Zuckerberg, it's not because people are actually interested in reels. It's because people go on instagram to see photos posted by their friends, and their feed gets spammed with reels that are loosely related to something else they searched for or clicked on in the internet.

Pro-tip: Just because I bought my kids sneakers last week doesn't mean I want to scroll through endless videos of strangers doing basketball tricks.

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