Meta admits Instagram error flooded Reels with violent and pornographic content
Meta admits Instagram error flooded Reels with violent and pornographic content
This is still ongoing for some users if their sub is anything to go by.
404 write up: https://www.404media.co/instagram-error-turned-reels-into-neverending-scroll-of-murder-gore-and-violence/
It wasn’t that long ago that the world almost ground to a halt because some people saw Janet Jackson’s breast.
Now we have this, and there will be zero consequences.
She didn't deserve the hate for an accident that wasn't even caused by her.
Either it was an accident and wasn’t at fault at all. Or it was a coordinated stunt and Justin owns 50% of it, if other production people weren’t also in on it.
But Janet got shit on because she’s a woman and black and Justin somehow walked away unscathed for decades. Fucked up.
the world almost ground to a halt
The US. "The world", at least the part that's not religious zealots, looked at that, went like "oh, surprise boob" and maybe giggled a bit.
You mean the US went pearl clutching whilst the rest of the world went "oh.. okay, and?"
I mean yes but also credited as the inspiration to start YouTube so also the same as it ever was?
So this stuff is always on the platform? Why the fuck?
zucks personal zuckerbank
It was definitely a good development to let social media operators make automated "recommendations based on what you seem to like" instead of, you know, letting users decide manually what they want to see, amirite… /s
There is still social media that lets you see posts made by your friends and people you follow in chronological order coughfetlifecough
Yeah I know, I sort Lemmy by "new comments" and Mastodon obviously only chronologically.
It's just that the first type of "social media" I ever used (in my childhood) was the web forum and I kinda miss that. :D
But surely some kind of automated filter is valuable. SM companies should give users more control over their feeds, like maybe once they have more than X things followed, 80% of their feed will be from things they've followed, and the user could override that setting.
I find the algorithms spot on. Zero need to optimize around an edge case/zero day.
Terrible, horrifying. But what kind of porn? Where would I go to see it to verify this?
One more reason I'll never use Meta social media ever again. I'm not surprised
Lemmy has plenty of porn and violence. You quitting here?
That's a pretty facetious reply. Lemmy has tons of ways of curating your feeds and that's one of its big strengths in my opinion.
This isn't about seeing the occasional bit of NSFW material (which I still see occasionally on my Lemmy feed, despite having blocked a bunch of NSFW communities). This latest Instagram debacle involved people's entire feeds being full of not just pornography, but also heavily NSFL gore stuff.
However, the real crux of this issue is clear when I imagine how I'd feel if a problem like this happened with Lemmy — I'd be unhappy, but I wouldn't flee the platform, because I trust various admins to not bullshit me about what had happened and what was going to be done in future. Meta has burned through any goodwill it might've once had, and the only thing that's transparent about them is their bullshit
Better get off the internet then if porn and violence is too much to handle.
Maybe just maybe, people are ok with gore/porn when they're expecting it, but don't like seeing it when they're not?
I don't use meta garbage and have been on the Internet long enough that I regularly saw gore videos as a teen because I hung out on 4chins all the time. I'm not averse to gore, but I still don't want to randomly see that shit in my feeds.
Also, well adjusted people generally don't feel good when they randomly see gore and shit....
accountability is only for citizens not for companies. They will continue to poison us without consequences.