Hacker News with Generative AI: Instagram

Meta spotted testing AI-generated comments on Instagram (techcrunch.com)
In recent years, Meta has introduced many AI features and capabilities to its apps, even going so far as experimenting with AI-generated characters complete with unique profiles and personalities, before scrapping them after they were deemed creepy and unnecessary.

Artificial Intelligence, Social Media, Meta, Instagram

7 points by zfg 26 days ago | 0 comments

Bluesky-based Instagram alternative Flashes launches publicly (techcrunch.com)
Instagram alternative Flashes publicly launched its Bluesky-based photo-sharing app on the App Store this week, gaining nearly 30,000 downloads in its first 24 hours.

Social Media, Mobile Apps, Instagram, Bluesky

13 points by PaulHoule 36 days ago | 5 comments

Meta apologises over flood of gore, violence and dead bodies on Instagram (theguardian.com)
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has apologised after Instagram users were subjected to a flood of violence, gore, animal abuse and dead bodies on their Reels feeds.

Social Media, Violence, Censorship, Meta, Instagram

70 points by chrisjj 48 days ago | 76 comments

Instagram users: Reels algorithm is suddenly serving extreme violent content (reddit.com)
Instagram is now 100% gore

Social Media, Content Moderation, Violence, Instagram

15 points by 2sf5 50 days ago | 3 comments

The Slop Society (wheresyoured.at)
In the last week we've seen the emergence of the true Meta — and the true Mark Zuckerberg — as the company ended its fact-checking program, claiming that (and I quote) "fact checkers have been too politically biased and have destroyed more trust than they've created" on both Instagram and Facebook, the latter of which was shown in a study from George Washington University to, by design, "afford antivaccine content producers several means to circumvent the intent of misinformation removal

Social Media, Misinformation, Facebook, Instagram, Censorship

9 points by cratermoon 75 days ago | 3 comments

Instagram tests Reels pause feature as TikTok remains in limbo (cnbc.com)

Social Media, Instagram, TikTok, Product Development

17 points by grajaganDev 76 days ago | 41 comments

Instagram deals reveal Meta is offering TikTok creators as much as $300k to post (businessinsider.com)
Instagram wants to be the first place creators go to post short-form videos.

Social Media, Business, TikTok, Instagram, Competition

85 points by belter 79 days ago | 104 comments

TikTokers offered $5k to join Facebook and Instagram (bbc.com)
Social media giant Meta has offered to pay up to $5,000 (£4,040) to popular creators in the United States who join Facebook and Instagram.

Social Media, TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, Compensation

6 points by bjourne 84 days ago | 3 comments

Meta addresses claims it forced users to follow President Trump (cbsnews.com)
Meta is denying claims circulating on social media that it forced Facebook and Instagram users to follow President Trump's official accounts, saying the changes some users noticed were standard practices tied to the transition of the POTUS account from the previous administration to the incoming one.

Social Media, Politics, Misinformation, Facebook, Instagram

6 points by eigenhombre 85 days ago | 2 comments

Meta admits some people can't unfollow Donald Trump on Instagram (the-independent.com)
Meta admits some people can’t unfollow Donald Trump on Instagram

Social Media, Politics, Meta, Instagram, Donald Trump

17 points by belter 85 days ago | 3 comments

Instagram announces a blatant CapCut clone (theverge.com)
Instagram head Adam Mosseri just announced a video editing app called Edits.

Social Media, Instagram, Video Editing

4 points by skreep 86 days ago | 2 comments

Zuckerberg appeared to know Llama trained on Libgen (rollingstone.com)
The AI rush has brought with it thorny questions of copyright and ownership of data as tech companies train bots like ChatGPT on existing texts, but it seems Meta largely brushed these aside as they worked to integrate such tools into Facebook and Instagram.

Artificial Intelligence, Copyright, Facebook, Instagram, Data

57 points by bn-l 88 days ago | 77 comments

Meta admits it deleted links to decentralized Instagram competitor Pixelfed (engadget.com)
Meta appeared to be blocking links to Pixelfed, a decentralized photo-sharing platform, on Facebook, according to both users on Bluesky and 404 Media.

Social Media, Decentralization, Meta, Instagram

22 points by shakna 93 days ago | 3 comments

What other communities do you use apart from HN? (ycombinator.com)
For example: apart from HN, I take part in Reddit and Bluesky. Facebook and Instagram ane inertia. Twitter/X is never more.

Social Media, Online Communities, Reddit, Bluesky, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram

60 points by stanislavb 95 days ago | 70 comments

Meta is killing off its AI-powered Instagram and Facebook profiles (theguardian.com)
Meta is deleting Facebook and Instagram profiles of AI characters the company created over a year ago after users rediscovered some of the profiles and engaged them in conversations, screenshots of which went viral.

Social Media, Artificial Intelligence, Meta, Facebook, Instagram

386 points by n1b0m 104 days ago | 549 comments

Instagram users discover old AI-powered "characters," instantly revile them (arstechnica.com)
A little over a year ago, Meta created Facebook and Instagram profiles for "28 AIs with unique interests and personalities for you to interact with and dive deeper into your interests." Today, the last of those profiles is being taken down amid waves of viral revulsion as word of their existence has spread online.

Social Media, Artificial Intelligence, Meta, Instagram

7 points by morkalork 104 days ago | 3 comments

Meta's AI-generated profiles are starting to show up on Instagram (reddit.com)
Meta’s AI-generated profiles are starting to show up on Instagram

Meta, Artificial Intelligence, Social Media, Instagram

5 points by psychanarch 104 days ago | 1 comments

Meta Wants More AI Bots on Facebook and Instagram (nymag.com)
Among Meta’s many resolutions for the new year — making augmented reality and the metaverse happen, positioning itself to absorb TikTok refugees if the app gets banned, cracking open Apple’s platforms to get more access to user data, and attriting its competition in artificial intelligence with breathtaking spending — one stands out as plain weird: filling its social-media platforms with bots.

Meta, Artificial Intelligence, Social Media, Facebook, Instagram

223 points by marban 106 days ago | 393 comments

Please help: My business Facebook, Instagram, and personal acct all got disabled (ycombinator.com)
We're literally customers (ads) of facebook. No warning. Instagram claims we "violated community standards" on our business account, where we have only been posting our very above-board podcast videos.

Social Media, Facebook, Instagram, Business

34 points by solfox 119 days ago | 8 comments

Ask HN: Why are social media spam bots still a thing? (ycombinator.com)
Specifically Instagram. After many years, I still get regular messages from spam bots, usually pretending to be women that are romantically interested. It seems trivial to ban (or even prevent) those accounts, from a technical perspective. Reporting them also doesn't seem to do much. Why is this still a thing? This should have been a solved problem years ago no? Are there, besides technical reasons, other reasons to keep spam bots alive on their platforms?

Social Media, Spam, Bots, Instagram

6 points by Avalaxy 166 days ago | 5 comments

Instagram is lowering video quality for unpopular videos (techcrunch.com)
The popularity of an Instagram video can affect its actual video quality: According to Adam Mosseri (the Meta executive who leads Instagram and Threads), videos that are more popular get shown in higher quality, while less popular videos get shown in lower quality.

Social Media, Instagram, Algorithm, Video Quality

6 points by LordAtlas 171 days ago | 0 comments

You can track changes someone makes to their Instagram account (github.com/ibnaleem)
📸 an Instagram tracker that logs any changes to an Instagram account (followers, following, posts, and bio)

Social Media, Tracking, Instagram, Data Analysis

8 points by hellowastaken 185 days ago | 4 comments

Up to 600M Facebook and Instagram passwords stored in plain text (9to5mac.com)
Meta has been fined €91M ($101M) after it was discovered that to 600 million Facebook and Instagram passwords had been stored in plain text.

Data Breaches, Security, Facebook, Instagram, Social Media

26 points by clwg 202 days ago | 5 comments

Instagram deleting archived stories, turning old videos into photos (twitter.com)

Social Media, Instagram, Privacy, User Interface

67 points by tantalor 203 days ago | 26 comments

Instagram Saved 90% of Computing Power and Improved Video Quality (betterstack.com)

Instagram, Optimization, Video Quality

16 points by richbray 252 days ago | 6 comments

Instagram starts letting people create AI versions of themselves (theverge.com)

Artificial Intelligence, Social Media, Instagram, Technology

5 points by thewarpaint 261 days ago | 1 comments

Meta gives researchers access to Instagram data for teen mental health study (engadget.com)