Have you considered, that the AI is simply trying to greedily close the points on it's knowledge graph?

Perhaps having a dense graph is simply more profitable for FB?

Sure they won't know who you know, but they can send their messages (ostensibly "on behalf of") that person you know/friended.

Sure, poison your personal data (get your Fakebook on), but going out and spamming connections may not exactly hurt FB.

> Have you considered, that the AI is simply trying to greedily close the points on it's knowledge graph?

No, all I've thought is that the AI sucks and is broken and for a company that's supposed to have the smartest people and unlimited money it should know better.

Beyond that, no.

Sucks for you <> sucks for FB. Facebook (and it's pet AI) likely cares more about it's revenue than it does about you.

Yup and then some other proportion are actually people you know/are friends with. You probably occasionally reach out to the ones you know/are friends with and ignore those who language you don't speak in the countries you've never been to.

All of this is of course a designed test to see how accurate the model is, to see how ordering of suggestions influences behavior, to see effects of noise, etc.

They aren't stupid and they aren't bad at their jobs. It's just a test.