Hacker News with Generative AI: Instagram

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.
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.
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.
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
Instagram announces a blatant CapCut clone (theverge.com)
Instagram head Adam Mosseri just announced a video editing app called Edits.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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?
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.
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)
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.
Instagram deleting archived stories, turning old videos into photos (twitter.com)
Instagram Saved 90% of Computing Power and Improved Video Quality (betterstack.com)
Instagram starts letting people create AI versions of themselves (theverge.com)
Meta gives researchers access to Instagram data for teen mental health study (engadget.com)
The Rise of Faceless Accounts on Instagram (leximerritt.substack.com)
So you want to offer authN on your Instagram website [Image] (imgur.com)
Oops, a Meta 'error' limited political content on Instagram and Threads (theverge.com)
Instagram is testing 'unskippable' ads that you can't scroll past (theverge.com)
Instagram tests forcing users to watch adverts (bbc.com)
Instagram tests forcing users to watch adverts (bbc.co.uk)
Instagram confirms test of 'unskippable' ads (techcrunch.com)
Instagram will use users' content to train it's AI (mashable.com)
Meta says you can't turn off its new AI tool on Facebook, Instagram (globalnews.ca)