Are AI comments a (good) future for social media?
Today I read this message:
Instagram has just added the ability to write comments with AI.
A similar option LinkedIn has (it offers pre-written recommended comments like "Congratulations")
In my opinion, social media is about being Social.
But I also understand the development of technology, the attention economy and the mass of content produced.
We are being pushed to speed up everything with artificial intelligence. That's why we see more tools on the market that will write comments for us.
How do you perceive it? Does using AI comments make sense?
I personally see it this way:
I use AI for grammar correction
This is perhaps more worthwhile for big creators to interact with their fans faster and on a large scale at minimal cost
I would rather see some cooperation between a human and AI (for example, being aware of what the AI wrote and I will edit it according to my own needs)
Maybe AI interaction will bore us so much in the online space that we will start communicating with each other offline (face-to-face).
Feel free to share your thoughts. 👇
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Do people who post AI-generated comments think others wouldn't notice? Every such comment reeeeks of AI even before one can reach the end of sentence. Personally, hate reading AI generated comments a lot. Instagram has always been the platform for its visuals and aesthetics. Maybe they have their own agenda to increase engagement via comments and hence the ease to drop them at a click of a button. So long as platforms that operate on the written word (LinkedIn, X, Reddit etc) do not promote this behaviour, I guess it is okay.
Did someone say Product Hunt tracks and takes down AI-generated comments? If so, it certainly needs to get better at it!
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@aishwaryalohi Regarding AI-generated comments – there used to be more. I have to say, that it improved significantly.
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@busmark_w_nika surprised to hear that but good to know!
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We are doomed in that case :D
I think AI will become the new social network. Users will communicate with AI as with an old friend, just to find out rumors and latest news)
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Probably yes because Meta wants to incorporate bots as regular users into the platform. Maybe generations after us will take it for granted.
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Soon AI will be communicating with AI
But I really like live human communication.
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@maria_anosova Where is the place for humans in this scenario? :D
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Must be otherwise we will be useless :D
I used to use AI in almost every aspect from creating cold emails to even summarising posts and comments. While it helps you open new ideas, and great attention to detail, it takes away perspectives and unique point of views from the table. Suddenly every one has generic good ideas with different writing styles. Hence apart from grammar check or fact check, creative writers should refrain from AI. While apparently it adds points, it lacks the ingenuity of your thought process
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@sudip_chhatui2 Good point! And you actually named it pretty accur8. The same answer just a slightly different writing style :D
If AI takes over general communication, what’s the purpose of social media anymore? I believe AI should only assist human communication, like helping with translations, grammar corrections, and suggesting sentences.
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We are on the same page, Kay. Ideally to use it for learning :)
As a non-native speaker of English, AI helps me to correct the grammar. Personally, I try to avoid as much as i could as i still wanted to perfect myself with my thought and language. Also, AI hasnt still not started to capture the raw human emotions in writing. But, it will fast catchup.
Soon, humans will start to crave for face to face interaction as they will get bored of the AI contents interacting among themselves :-)
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@rameshkumar_astravue Fair enough. For correcting the grammar is Grammarly optimal, btw! 👌 So you can learn and use AI only partially :)
Earlier people used to search in Google to find best solutions which has been reduced by AI products in many areas, No doubt that it is helping us to refine thoughts and grasp social and technical conversation more efficiently, what i see it as now this will raise a concern to make authentic content as it has become complex where the user find it difficult to distinguish between the ai generated and human creations.
One of the example i came across where many leading CEOs also found the improvement over the office operations & social media optimization and content moderation related activities where they found a jump in soft and hard skills improvements over different departments in the corporate culture.
My opinion is a bit mixed as there are promising AI products being launched for providing more humanly content i.e., apps related to replies and suggestions that too with google extensions and product as separately.
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I think that something really AI-generated will help big companies/creators who do not want to pay virtual assistants or humans for human-approach. In the end, AI is cost-effective and I think that 80% of regular users even do not reveal that it is AI-generated. But as a marketer, I already see the difference. Maybe that's why I am biased.
AI comments may only be great when it detects what you write and helps you check grammar and rephrase the sentence. So many contents are already created by AI, if comments are also generated by AI, social media platforms are for AI agents, not for human beings any more. Real connections and interactions between people is more valuable these days.
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I can bet that there are already paid groups only for humans (just because of the need to talk with the person).
Btw I have a quick way to find out if a comment is AI generated. Just look for the em dash "—". No human use it when writing a quick comment... yet grok and chatgpt use it a lot.
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@mzkvisuals Yes, that is the thing about how I differentiate it :D I dunno from which grammar rules is that dash taken :D