Posted by ssiddharth 1 day ago
Since everyone should already know by now that you can't strap on an AI on an existing system without a lot of guardrails this feels like a very high level of incompetence.
No one should be putting AI on top of any production system without having a default deny policy on actions and slowly adding new capabilities with proper guardrails.
It might even do that preemptively if it thinks they're going to shut it down.
If you still use Meta products in 2026, you kinda deserve it.
Meta somehow determined the two accounts are the same person.
Of course it's always possible that they simply don't care who has your account, as long as they get money.
A breach which surely will go down in computer history as one of the most egregious and avoidable corporate IT failures of all time.
I will never install the Facebook app on my phone, so I use a browser instead. The experience is almost unusable. I can’t rate people. I’m not even sure if I can send messages. I can’t list things. The UI appears to support features that don’t work in practice.
No biggy because I just use a Firefox container and use my laptop instead, where the web version actually does work.
I've tried that, but fb has stopped sending email notification of messages, so without the messenger app installed for notifications, I'll invariably fail to check messages on any kind of timely basis.
Think NASA, for example; it's also a government agency, and they are doing great job posting photos in Instagram, do you think anything is wrong with it?
Something to think about when we consider what is "normal" today. Not much really is normal. We've been beaten to think it is.
* On that note, and for the sake of the argument, I would say that the years of free uncontrolled information exchange in the Internet can probably be considered an exception. Information exchange was always controlled by governments and businesses (e.g. TV and newspapers) before, just as it is now. The fact that you or I don't like it does not change that this is how it used to be before the Internet appeared as a "free space". My generation was lucky to see how great the world with free information exchange could be, but I don't have much hope that it would stay like that for long.