Facebook is becoming more unusable by the day.
A recent trend that has become very annoying is where a post shows an elaborate, intricate, obviously AI-generated, sculpture, statue, painting, portrait, carving or suchlike, even a magnificent cake or a horse made of bread, with an unlikely-looking creator standing next to it and a caption saying something like “Do you think I can get any likes for this?” or in the third person, “He/she did all this work, why is nobody talking about it?” The post then has hundreds of comments, mostly along the lines of “Oh, wow! What amazing talent!”, “God has blessed you with such skill” and “The whole world should see her work, let’s all share it far and wide”.
It’s all nonsense, of course, and most are scams. Some are trying to provoke as many responses as possible in order to generate input to help train AI language models. Others are share- and like-farming scams, just like the posts with pictures that play on the emotions of kind and thoughtful people, for example pictures that depict an abused dog or a disabled child and ask you to ‘like’ or ‘share’ the post to wish the subject of the picture well.
When such a page has received thousands of ‘likes’ or shares, the page will be sold to marketers or ads placed on the page to display to the thousands of users who, by liking, sharing or commenting have inadvertently signed up as fans.