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.

Social Media, Business, TikTok, Instagram, Competition

80 points by belter 8 hours ago | 97 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 6 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 6 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 6 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 8 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 9 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 15 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 17 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 25 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 25 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 25 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 27 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 40 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 87 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 92 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 106 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 123 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 124 days ago | 26 comments

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

Instagram, Optimization, Video Quality

16 points by richbray 174 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 182 days ago | 1 comments

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