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solenoid0937yesterday at 10:40 PM1 replyview on HN

> It says right in their release ad impressions are up almost 20% and cost per add is up 12%

Have you wondered why this is the case? How do you think they increased impressions so much at their scale? How they did this despite losing 20M users?

To put it clearly, AI at every part of the pipeline: writing software, product features/experiments, A/B testing them, and pushing them out to users. Even before you get to something like LLM driven recommendations, you can virtually entirely automate the process of finding more "engagement alpha" with AI.


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scuff3dyesterday at 10:56 PM

If you have an evidence from their financial releases showing a correlation between AI usage and increased revenue I'd love to see it. Otherwise you're just making wild ass guesses.

Edit: Also, historically Meta has been growing revenue by 30 to 50 percent for the last decade. With the only exception being 2022 and 2023. So it's not like recent performance is an outlier.