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Why doesn't Facebook just ban AI slop like Shrimp Jesus?
Engagement-bait AI images like Shrimp Jesus are all over Facebook. Why won't Mark Zuckerberg's team just ban them?
The best explanation is that the Facebook pages posting these are making bait for scam targets, helping scammers identify gullible people in the comments who they can extract money from. Facebook worries that banning this kind of AI content will set a bad precedent because it wants to encourage people to make stuff with its own Llama 3 tools. Meta's previous commitments to working with researchers and academics have fizzled away, and the scrutiny over content moderation (helped by Elon Musk lowering the bar to the basement) has shifted.
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