{"id":185433,"date":"2024-03-19T14:22:39","date_gmt":"2024-03-19T19:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/facebook-is-making-insane-ai-generated-fever-dreams-go-viral-for-gullible-boomers"},"modified":"2024-03-19T14:22:39","modified_gmt":"2024-03-19T19:22:39","slug":"facebook-is-making-insane-ai-generated-fever-dreams-go-viral-for-gullible-boomers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/facebook-is-making-insane-ai-generated-fever-dreams-go-viral-for-gullible-boomers","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Is Making Insane AI-Generated Fever Dreams Go Viral for Gullible Boomers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/facebook-is-making-insane-ai-generated-fever-dreams-go-viral-for-gullible-boomers2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Facebook is quickly being overrun by dubious, AI-generated junk \u2014 which is somehow attracting huge amounts of attention from its aging user base.<\/p>\n<p>Worse yet, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/cyber.fsi.stanford.edu\/io\/news\/ai-spam-accounts-build-followers?ref=404media.co\" class=\"\">new analysis<\/a> by Stanford and Georgetown University researchers, first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.404media.co\/facebooks-algorithm-is-boosting-ai-spam-that-links-to-ai-generated-ad-laden-click-farms\/\" class=\"\">spotted by <em>404 Media<\/em><\/a>, scammers and spammers are using this lowbrow content to grow their audiences on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>Even with the proliferation of AI image generators, the novelty has clearly yet to wear off for users on the largest social media network, a veritable social media dinosaur.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook is quickly being overrun by dubious, AI-generated junk \u2014 which is somehow attracting huge amounts of attention from its aging user base. Worse yet, according to a new analysis by Stanford and Georgetown University researchers, first spotted by 404 Media, scammers and spammers are using this lowbrow content to grow their audiences on Facebook. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-extension","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}