Through the mirror into the lightly-clothed AI gooniverse

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A first-hand account of logging into Facebook after nearly 8 years reveals a feed dominated by AI-generated thirst traps, engagement-bait videos, and algorithmic slop — with almost no content from actual friends or followed pages. The author observes that Meta's recommendation algorithm aggressively pushes low-quality, often AI-generated content to users, raising concerns about the platform's decline and the broader implications of AI-generated spam flooding mainstream social media feeds.

Facebook is absolutely cooked

Maybe for you. I see only good/interesting things on my Facebook feed.
It’s just like Youtube or any music service - if you look &amp; listen to crap, you will be suggested more crap. you must never open any crap or delete it from history, in order to teach the algorithm what to show you next. That simple.

YouTube, Twitter (X), and Instagram are going in the same direction. Too many ads and AI-generated content.
These CEOs need to understand one basic fact: people are interested in other people.

I created a brand new profile just to test what I would be suggested without liking a single stuff. Short answer propaganda and AI crap mixed with scams. I got hundreds of posts with russian propaganda, I specifically marked as not interested for all of these posts and in some cases reporting them and I still was shown all the time all of that shit.
Then I thought let me curate my feed. I liked some food posts etc to make sure I get suggested only food related stuff. Guess what… None of that mattered. I still got AI slop, scams, and russian propaganda with like 1% of accidental food post.
Its a horrible platform and I hope kids will be not allowed anymore on any of the social networks.

Schools using facebook for updates.
I dont know what to say.

there are 2 very simple solutions. Don’t click/watch those low quality content or block the user who posted it.
I see no reason into writing a post about it with such a clickbait title