*cw violence*
New: An "error" suddenly turned people's Reels feeds into neverending scrolls of murder, death, animal abuse, and violence.
Truly horrifying stuff, one of the worst things I've seen happen to random consumers of the internet.
https://www.404media.co/instagram-error-turned-reels-into-neverending-scroll-of-murder-gore-and-violence/
New: An "error" suddenly turned people's Reels feeds into neverending scrolls of murder, death, animal abuse, and violence.
Truly horrifying stuff, one of the worst things I've seen happen to random consumers of the internet.
https://www.404media.co/instagram-error-turned-reels-into-neverending-scroll-of-murder-gore-and-violence/
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It's so bad that I wonder if meta was hacked. This is horrible
It haunted me (still does), i'm still angry that after reporting it, facebook didn't do crap and said it isn't infringing
Much more disturbing and worth regulating than the porn laws going in effect.
Am I just asking a stupid question?
Maybe get the fuck off of Meta-branded sites sooner rather than later, folks?
"We have fixed an error that caused some users to see content in their Instagram Reels feed that should not have been recommended. We apologize for the mistake.”
https://bsky.app/profile/joeyp.bsky.social/post/3liyqhnzfls2l
Meta are apologising because they showed you these videos by "mistake".
Meta are *not* apologising for hosting these videos in the first place.
Just how repulsive does something have to be before Zuckerberg actually says "Whoa. I think that's a bit too gross."?
Like you're telling me insta does recommend these to some people? I'm all about accepting and integrating the shadow of the psyche, but indulging in gore as a hobby seems dangerous to peoples sensitivities/limits.
“Should not have been recommended” is totally commensurate with “will need therapy and will never fully trust digital media again”.
Now imagine that the new algorithm marks the very worst as -1.
If the code that looks for "recommended" assumes that it will never see a negative number, -1 will be interpreted as the BEST possible recommendation.
im sorry i dont have more advice, just be gentle and patient for her ok?