Instagram got hacked in the most retarded way imaginable, and I feel so vindicated. It's funny how the more “successful” you are as a business, the dumber your decisions become. Funny how that works.
In some podcast, Zuck literally and nonchalantly mentioned losing billions of dollars on AI like it was nothing. These out-of-touch apathetic assholes can solve world hunger overnight, and yet here they are doing nothing but making their precious platforms more and more useless.
When I got locked out of my Instagram account for no reason other than some random person started spam-liking everything I posted, I didn't even bother to “appeal”, because I knew it was a completely useless thing to do, and this was before the AI boom.
I noticed that the older I get, the more aware and disappointed in how the world works. on the surface, at least to those who are consumed by toxic positivity, it may seem like I'm just being cynical, but the truth is, if I don't call out bullshit on the spot, I might as well just mindlessly ride every hype out there. Now, is that a wise thing to do? I don't fucking think so!
Anyway, apparently, some “good actors” in my book (I support hacks against mega-corporations. Fucking sue me!), because Facebook deserves every bad thing that happens to it (the name change to Meta was just to make people forget about their scandals.) managed to trick the Instagram AI assistant into granting them access into public figure Instagram accounts through the password reset process. Because the AI conversation is based on the illusion of an actual conversation, while in the background, it's like a monologue, which confused the AI into “thinking” that it was the one that started the conversation, meaning the the user's initial request can easily be interpreted by the chatbot as the thing that the chatbot itself said. It's kind of like a weird version of Simon Says mixed with the “Who came first, the chicken or the egg?” philosophical question.
Like George Carlin, I enjoy chaos like this, and while big corporations can always bribe their way out of their super embarrassing fuck-ups, for me, that's one of the best kinds of pure entertainment. When you see a smug fuck acting and talking like they own the fucking world, and then later on you see how fucking ridiculously fragile their system is, man, it's just fan-freakin'-tastic! It's impossible to have sympathy for someone who called his platform users “Dumb fucks.” And frankly, anyone who works for these evil companies deserve to be laid off and become homeless. After all, in this cesspool of a world, most, if not all, the laid off people were overpaid anyway, just like the C-Suite dickbags that hired them in the first place.