Re:How I Erased Facebook Comments and Likes
by matte_black on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @03:19PM
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Depends on how you put in the data.
If you do it all at once it’s trivially easy. They know a person doesn’t just become a new person overnight.
If you commit to creating an elaborate fake personality by doing things your fake self would do, it can be harder, but not impossible. Certainly not a problem for some of the greatest minds in Silicon Valley.
Re:How I Erased Facebook Comments and Likes
by fricat1ve on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @06:25PM
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Meh...the whole "Silicon Valley genius" trope is another myth that needs to die. Being able to code a depth first search doesn't make anyone a 'genius' and there are limits to what AI can do even with bushel baskets full of data.
For many years Facebook thought I was Jewish and was spamming me with ads to become a rabbi and move to Israel, but I am the least Jewish person you'd ever meet. And that could easily be determined by publicly searchable data about myself.
Re:How I Erased Facebook Comments and Likes
by realusername on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @11:14PM
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I've faked my phone number for about two weeks on Android when I installed their app to try it. 3 years after, they still ask me if my number is some random Italian number, I'm not sure they have that many checks in place.
Isn't that like NP-hard or something?
Furthermore, would they care? Realistically, you're padding their numbers. Things can be popular simply because they're liked (whether it's synthetic or not).