JemmyWhere Facebook's AI Slop Comes From
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Stopthatgirl7
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My investigation reveals that the AI images we see on Facebook are an evolution of a Facebook spam economy that has existed for years, driven by social media influencers, guides, services, and businesses in places like India, Pakistan, Indonesia, Thailand, and Vietnam, where the payouts generated by this content, which seems marginal by U.S. standards, goes further. The spam comes from a mix of people manually creating images on their phones using off-the-shelf tools like Microsoft’s AI Image Creator to larger operations that use automated software to spam the platform. I also know that their methods work because I used them to flood Facebook with AI slop myself as a test.
These payouts are marginal‽
I’d take fucking $25-$50 an hour for a few minutes of work.
That can't be true, that's unreasonably high
I run a Facebook page (periodically). Frequently post things which get 3k+ likes. Facebook has paid me $0.
It looks like this is an invite only feature through their "Creator Bonus Program".
https://web.archive.org/web/20240324054627/https://creators.facebook.com/programs/bonuses
The fact that Facebook are allowing spam pages into this is wild.
Got to get content somehow.
Engagement go brrrt.
From the article:
Someone else they quoted said $3-$10 per 1000 likes, which is still quite a bit.
I'm guessing what that means is that a sponsor will pay that sort of rate for a sponsored post from an "influencer". Because yeah, otherwise that sounds crazy
It says in the article that this is likely an exaggeration.