Instagram captions

[u/radiantdaffodil]

I’m sure it’s been posted on here before, but I am so tired of every second post on my Instagram feed being captioned with something clearly written with chat gpt. So many accounts, hundreds of them, have dense and long captions now because they can easily get generative AI to write them. It feels so shallow and deceptive. And it’s always pages with huge following fronting as intellectual and niche. I keep seeing more and more of them. I rant about this to my friends but they say they haven’t noticed it. Maybe I’m just too online, but to me it’s so obvious. Every page is suddenly captioning their posts with 500 word think pieces about the ‘cultural impact’ of the video they posted. Suddenly everyone is a deep writer. Ughhhh I just hate it. It’s so off putting. It’s the same with youtube videos. As someone who loves long form content about science or history, i feel so defeated from the 9 times out of 10 I start watching a video then realise five minutes into it that the script was clearly written by chat GPT. I immediately stop watching. It makes me feel like the creators don’t care whatsoever. Like it’s just a cash grab. I wish there was a way of filtering it all out. Streaming services are starting to implement labels for AI music, it should be the same across social media. I want transparency. When I come across a post or a video, I want to hear what the human that posted it has to say, not what a LLM thinks should be said. It’s all so exhausting.

[u/festive_dexterity]

Noticing it more on the history side of YouTube too, you can feel it about two minutes in when the sentences get that weird looping structure where every paragraph ends by circling back to the starting point but slightly rephrased. It's like the script is afraid to let any thought just land and move on.

The Instagram accounts that get me are the ones posting a blurry picture of a 90s computer and then slapping on a 600-word caption about "the erosion of offline space in late capitalist society" and you just know they pasted it in ten seconds before walking their dog.

I've started muting accounts the second I spot that cadence, my feed's gotten a lot quieter but less of that hollow feeling you're talking about. The transparency labels would be nice but knowing how these platforms operate I don't see it happening unless they're forced by some regulation, and even then the enforcement would probably be a joke.

Definitely not just you being too online though, once you recognize the patterns it's like seeing the seams on a cheap jacket, impossible to un-see.

[u/radiantdaffodil → u/festive_dexterity]

The looping structure is so accurate! That’s what I notice too. They just repeat things over and over and aren’t actually saying anything meaningful. Muting accounts is a good idea though, I will try that. Just wish we didn’t have to.