Countless extremely long text posts in both English and Japanese in social media (including Microsoft’s LinkedIn, which is certainly a social media platform) are patently nothing more than the result of a clueless engagement farmer (or, more recently, a bot) giving a pretty much mindless and formulaic prompt to an AI model to do something like
Write an 800-word post about the actor John Wayne, including not only numerous movies he starred in, but also a look into his private life, including marriages and affairs and his political views.
or
Write a 500-word post about New Rochelle High School, including its history, noted alumni, and location.
I just gave the above prompts and got back posts, essentially with zero delay for the first and about 30 seconds of delay for the second, during which the AI said it was checking and correcting things, but it didn’t say what.
Although I would never do it, either of those posts could have been uploaded to social media platform as in by someone with absolutely no writing ability, intelligence, or knowledge of the subjects.
Both humans and bots are flooding social media with this garbage at an accelerating pace. Fake appears to be winning the battle against authentic, and I don’t see any means to turn that around.
At the risk of stating the obvious, there is extremely little reason to read or learn from most social media posts.
People who flood social media with this dreck provide no value to other members of their species. The responsible humans need to be beaten about the head and shoulders with a heavy metal instrument, locked into a porta potty, and then dropped into a river as polluted as the putrid swamp they have made of the Internet i.
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