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Meta launches 'Vibes,' a new short-video feed of AI-generated content nobody asked for
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this post was submitted on 29 Sep 2025
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No one asked for Linux. No one asked for IRC. No one asked for email. These are all things that nerds made up and got adopted because they were useful.
I just think it's the stupidest thing to say: "...that no one asked for." It's such a dumb trope.
That being said, I think "Vibes" is even stupider.
No one asked for Linux. No one asked for IRC. No one asked for email.
But people would have asked for these things at some point. Those are not stupid af.
Nobody, except some Meta execs, would have ever asked for a feed with AI slop.
I guarantee you I can find you 100 million people that would ask for it, if they had half a braincell to think it up.
I asked for a free OS and Gnu/Linux was there when I asked for it. But LITERALLY no one asked for AI generated reels platform other than Metaholes in the company.
so... if we're going to have AI-generated content, consumed by bots... and then that's going to be summarized with engagement metrics... why don't we cut out the middleman and just generate the metrics?
It would cut down the number of LLM calls by over half and be far more eco friendly
Dead Internet theory
truer by the day
Has there been any good consumer Ai products yet? I keep seeing all these products in search of a problem.
Better text to speech and speech to text, automatic image descriptions, better translations.
ChatGPT and the likes can also be used to access content without ads nor license
Also you can write the letters "AI" on a paper and rich people will give you money. They'll want it back eventually but hey
They can ai deez nutz
Coderabbit for PR reviews at work has both impressed me and made me aggregated by how incorrect some of the comments are. It's like, it's caught bugs that i would have missed even when looking very closely but also makes the same suggestions to over complicate chunks or suggestions that literally don't work. Such as assuming the db schema when looking at a query and saying "that's not what the column is called".
So, that's best I've experienced really, basically a PR check that's able to find some really out there bugs but a lot of comments need to be ignored.
Yeah you need to review the PR review instead lol
Is there any smaller, "semantic search"-oriented model, rather than all the coding agents?
A few developers I know are very impressed by Claude.
It works well for small programs and boilerplate. But you need to know what you are doing to guide it. They can very often get stuck in some rabbithole
I’ll be honest, it’s probably wasted more time than it’s saved me. I only trust it to format files and find where things might be used in the code base. So, you know, plain-language pretty print and grep.
I concur, it has gotten me in multiple wild goose chases when debugging. It is extremely confident especially when it's wrong
It's pretty good at fleshing out documentation. and if you're naming variables properly it's pretty good at gleaning what you're trying to do and autocomplete on a small scale.
It is extremely confident especially when it's wrong
This reminded me of a recent study I saw posted about the accuracy of AI and trying to remove hallucinations. One of the conclusions of which being, besides that it's impossible to stop them from hallucinating, that the tests companies use to grade the quality of an AI and the expectations of users grade confidence in an answer higher than the accuracy of the answer.
I, too, can copy and paste from StackOverflow.
Yes, but you'll know if you're copying from the answer, or the question.
Even if that were literally what it did, having a StackOverflow button would be pretty cool
This is really gonna be big in ~~the Metaverse~~ Horizon Worlds.
Why would I bother watching content nobody bothered making?
Because you want to see those spicy AI ads in between the AI posts?
Because your AI companions will want to talk about it tomorrow.
More brainrot.
Stop using populat social media.
Imagine someone staring, smiling dumbly at an endless stream of fake kitten videos.
Truly a life without meaning
I've seen, 'These are Ten Ways You Break Your Cats Heart When You Leave' and it's like an hour of sad cats looking up at the camera while the narrator describes normal work/life flow.
Old people. Old people will. I've seen them do this in libraries and what they share on FB.
And children. They will too, at least until they’re old enough to see difference.
I almost reflexively downvoted this because the news pisses me off so much, before I stopped myself because it's unfair to shoot the messenger.
If you're someone who actually believes AI-generated content can be good, why is this even necessary‽ Surely the AI stuff will just naturally rise to the top on YouTube Shorts, TikTok, and Instagram Reels. Is that not happening? I wonder why...
Gotta hand it to Meta though, that is actually a brilliant name for the product.
They invested billions into AI. It has to work or they lose a lot of money and the shareholders shan't be pleased.
No, but there's simply an "infinite" amount of ML slop, therefore it's easier to keep viewers longer.
But that's my point. Put the AI slop on YouTube. If it's actually good enough to effect greater viewer retention, it'll work and the algorithm will feed more of it than human-created content. No need for a specific platform.
This feels like management said "we have AI, we need to build more AI-based products, what've ya got?"
But there are boatloads of slop already on YouTube, and the algorithm doesn't care if you like or dislike it. People will put a dislike and a mean comment but the algorithm sees that as engagement and the slop wins.
Is there genuinely a bunch of AI on YouTube? I watch a lot of content on there, and I don't think I've ever been recommended an AI generated video.
Obviously I've had my account for a while, so they've got a good idea of what I like to watch.
Pretty easy to spot them if you're looking for history related stuff that's not common, like African kingdoms during the early medieval period or even some Mesoamerican studies - it may start off with real images, but soon it's only AI slop and that's when you realize even the voice might be AI. I fell for 2 such videos thus far.
Yeah, in particular music and "fake trailers".
The attempt at co-opting AAVE is so pathetic and yet so on brand for fuckerberg and his sycophants.
Great headline
Alternativeto does articles now?
For the longest time
I am excited for this platform. It is the best way to show the last person that people don't want ai slop. Make it flop and every investor has to consider thia failure in their delusions.
Zuck will do the same thing he's been doing on Facebook and Threads: fill the entire site with bots and count those as real accounts when talking to investors. Will artificially inflate the numbers.
mmw they'll just merge that functionally into instagram eventually
And nothing will change.