Saturday, December 21, 2024

Facebook's new Meta AI wants to control what people like to write about. Three cases in point: about one week before our 70th anniversary and my 88 birthday (both are on the same date), I started working on a little tribute for my wife Connie; it wasn't a new one, but one that I had written some 3/4 years ago, and posted on a blog that I have outside of Facebook, So, as I had done times before when I wasn't feeling up to the text of writing a new anniversary piece or for any other celebration I went to my blog, and so I picked one up that wouldn't need much work in bringing it up to date,

So, after putting it on a Facebook link, I went to work on it, and while doing so, some messages started raining down on me; the messages were from a Meta AI ghostwriter read 'Let me help you' and the second one when I didn't respond to the first one read 'let me write it for you.'

The Ghostie started getting quite nasty when I refused to respond to them; it then started messing with my phone (my iPhone was going crazy; at first, I was sure that it had put a bug on it, but It didn't, but I'll bet that it had a headache for a day or two)

Next, he started critiquing my grammar, which everyone who knows my writing knows is an easy thing to do, and while writing is my passion, I know that I have my limitations as a writer. It then started to object to some of the words I was using, saying they were offensive; it said that I was on an unsecured link, and that is true; the Google website where I have my blog is not secure. So finally, after all this messing around with me, getting into my page, and writing his corrections over my writing, he took my post off my hands and posted it on my page with his writing, and I quickly deleted it. I took it to another site, where I updated it, copied and pasted it on Facebook the following day,

A few nights later, he did the same thing when I was trying to write a comment on a friend's post. It got so bad that I gave up on writing the comment.

He did it again this past weekend when I tried to comment on another friend's post. This time, he took my comment, and with his writing overlapping mine, he posted it on my friend's page. However, I could delete it before my friend saw it.


Because his writing overlapped, he posted, and because his writing overlapped, he did it. over my writing, he took my post off my hands and posted it on my page with his writing, and I quickly deleted it. I took it to another site, where I updated it, copied and pasted it on Facebook the following day,


A few nights later, he did the same thing when I was trying to write a comment on a friend's post. It got so bad that I gave up on writing the comment.

He did it again this past weekend as I tried to comment on another friend's post. This time, he again took my comment, and with his writing overlapping with mine, he posted it on my friend's page, but I could delete it before my friend saw it. Because his writing overlapped, he posted, and because his writing overlapped, he did it.

Facebook's new Meta AI wants to control what people like to write about. Three cases in point: about one week before our 70th anniversar...