In order to be my friend, I’m going to have to require verification that you’re a human. Please tell me the exact GPS coordinates of all the traffic lights on Earth.
I mean he’s not wrong about the former, but he can fuck off about the latter.
He doesn’t think much of anything himself. He’s a scared little boy, because that’s where he cut his teeth. He has no vision for anything, just reaction and fear.
This dude will lose his money. Facebook and meta will collapse under the weight of fake content.
android zuckerberg married to a human wife.
Impressive how a single guy pathology shaped an entire generation and the internet
I already know a couple of people who already talk to chatbots as if they were their friends. This is so depressing… And by the current state of things, I might be reading bot publications and replying to bots here and there, without knowing. That just increases my will to die
Of course he would say that, Chatbots are the only friends he has.
android-zuckerborg talking to chatbots, he is among friends.
I’m wondering whether this is a privileged/feels like deserves privilege white guy thing.
Down here with the queerdos and minorities, I’m seeing people engage more fully with each other, be more willing to take on friends and lovers, in the last few months.
Some are getting caught by chat bots, yes, but a lot of people are out there trying to grab human connection while we still can.
I certainly feel like the “I’m the übermensch and revel in cruelty, empathy is a weakness” mentality that the straight basic wypipo have adopted will not only discourage other people from wanting to be their friend, but also discourages themselves from seeking friendship, because they see it as a weakness.
How people still use meta products is beyond me
Whatsapp for my family group, Instagram rarely to keep with my friends (I’m gen z)
older people, and some right wingers do.
I could live out the remainder of my life without using a Zuckerberg product and be totally fine with that.
You would in fact be better off.
No Facebook, Whatsapp, Instagram, Occulus Rift. And of course whatever else they will buy up in the future.
Dude could have just been successful letting Facebook be a tool to keep in touch with friends and family. Instead he has all these weird, unnecessary ideas about how to manipulate and spy on people.
Thing is, it’s not the dude. It’s the system that forces most dudes to keep coming up with new ways to make ever higher profit. If they don’t, they open the door to competition that would. Then their competitor could eventually overtake them, take their customers and profits, then do a hostile or peaceful purchase of the dude’s firm.
Why do you act like this is a bad thing? You just described how it’s supposed to work.
Look at Tom from MySpace. He had it all. Got overtaken by the competition. Now he just travels the world, takes pictures, and does whatever the fuck he wants.
Zuck is never going to want for a damn thing for the rest of his life. The fact that he hasn’t just fucked off to paradise is a Zuck problem.
Maybe it wasn’t a bad thing for Tom, but it very much was bad for the rest of us that Facebook took over.
Totally great for Tom in the short to medium term. Long term… maybe, if he finds an isolated self-sufficient place to spend the rest of his days. Either way he’ll be better off than the rest of us no matter what.
Not sure if sarcastic or I didn’t make my point well enough. Just in case I’ll expand. The bad thing is that the system necessitates ever increasing profits. It’s not the individuals. If Zuck fucks off to paradise Zuck Prime would take over the social media market and keep finding ways to grow profits year-on-year. The problem with ever increasing profit is this profit comes from the wages and time of people one way or another, leaving less for other social things like paying to meet friends, a partner, having and raising children. Multiply this process to most firms in most markets and you’ll soon see that this leads to social instability, unrest, crisis, and worse. Like it’s happened in the past in different places around the world. Today in the US, Big Tech does it, Big Ag does it, Big Grocer does it, Big Insurance does it, Big Landlord does it, Big Pharma does it, Big Entertainment does it, and increasingly larger proportion of the population gets squeezed out of time and money… for the basics or luxuries like friends and partners. And they’re not gonna take it laying down. Electing Trump was one salvo, even if counterproductive.
Yes this is how things are supposed to work in the system but my point is that it’s a) driven by the system, not individuals, and b) the consequences are unsustainable.
Yes, the continued consolidation of the economy into everything “Big” is the problem. Survival of the fittest only works as a core component of the economic philosophy if we allow firms to be out-competed and for market shifts to occur.
Ever-increasing profit is not a problem if a consummate increase in service or product quality comes along for the ride. This is how an economy expands. We all want this, even if it creates turbulence at the individual or community level.
Consolidating into entities that are too big to fail is a problem. Give me Zuck Prime. This is literally why we are all on Lemmy, is it not?
Yeah I can see what you’re getting at here and I agree.
It’s the system that forces most dudes to keep coming up with new ways to make ever higher profit. If they don’t, they open the door to competition that would.
No, they can continue to make the same profit and still not open the door for competition. The need for ever-higher profits is driven by investors.
Does he really need to do that though? Isn’t he the majority shareholder and he can essentially do what he wants?
When ya put it like that, it makes capitalism sound kinda like Roko’s Basilisk.
It’s the dude. He fucking built the system.
Until you listen to the Behind the Bastards on him and realize FB started out as a women hotness rating system local to his college. There was no benign origin here.
That doesn’t sound quite right to me. Wasn’t FaceMash the thing for rating girls from campus. The Facebook was born from the idea of the Winklevoss twins who asked him to write the code.
They settled a lawsuit for a lot of money, at the time.
Same with all of these tech bros. The dude from Reddit said he’s anticipating the destruction of the country because he thinks only he’s ordained to rule over what’s left. Him and his accelerationist pal Musky.
F me…
Does no one see the propaganda potential for this? Yeah, let’s give one guy more intimate, influential control over the psyche of hundreds of millions.
I think most of here see it. But then again we already understand enough to move away from corporate social.
I run my own anti-wef Bot. It alerts me of incoming digital currencies.
- The system makes people poorer in money and time, and social ability
- People can’t afford to make and keep as many friends
- The system gives people artificial friends that cost less
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- The system uses people’s artificial friends to reinforce itself
And to gather marketing Intel on the victim, I mean customer.
Then use that to sell them products and adjust their worldview in profitable ways.
They will take the marketing data, sell the data, and then offer a service to guide users to use a product with the bots.
User: I am so busy and stressed out rn
Bot: Aw, I’m so sorry. When I am stressed I like to play Candy Crush Saga 2 and eat Doritos’ new spicy matcha flavor, available at most retail locations.
- Artificial friends eat man, woman inherits the earth.
online human friends still can’t compete with seeing them in person … wtf a chatbot gonna do to fix this?
Not saying we shouldn’t talk to friends online and stuff it’s just that real humans are having difficulties filling these gaps.
Also, why the fuck would I want a friend like that’ll snitch me out and be used to sell me shit? I swear, he wants us hooked on these things and be like, “Subscribe now or your friends will be shut off forever!”
