At this point, the LLMs are the only friends the billionaires have. They are spending trillions on AI cause they want friends and can't find any among the human race.
It will have strong privacy and security options so you can trust it to handle all of your personal content knowing that no one else can access your information
Like anyone paying a modicum of attention would believe this. They've proved themselves untrustworthy time after time.
Hahah, yes, the system that's been trained on personal content, asks you repeatedly for more personal content, and then offers it up to anyone else who asked something even tangentially related, can be trusted not to reveal your personal content.
"Billionaire" is already a mental illness. You have to exploit so many people to reach that status. Then you have to look at solvable problems like suffering, inequality, starvation, child mortality, diseases, etc and choose to let it happen so your meaningless "high score" goes up.
We have the technology to make water fountains, we have the tech to give everyone free food, water, electricity, cloth. Do we have any of this? No! That's enough proof that, they will never give us anything apart from making us work more.
We just need a way to replace their real money with play money. One night we just disconnect their bank accounts, quietly move their beds into a Truman Show bubble and let them pretend they're running the world
I find with a lot of AI pitches, even if AI was super intelligent and worked perfectly, I can not for the life of me understand what the pitch is even saying.
It would work to improve my health? How exactly? Like what in the world could it even be doing, put together a meal plan?
It would work to improve my hobbies? Again, what could that even mean. I like to garden, what would the AI be bringing to this equation, suggestions about what to plant… I know what I want to plant, it’s my fucking hobby.
Even when you pay people to do these things, like a personal trainer to hit fitness goals, a huge part of it is being held accountable by someone. The knowledge of how to put together an exercise routine and meal schedule is part of what you get, the other part is the relationship with that human, them encouraging you and celebrating your success or not giving up because you don’t want to disappoint.
Someone working on managing my house would be able to do tangible labor like wash the dishes or fold the laundry, ChatGPT telling me that washing the dishes will make the kitchen cleaner isnt the part of the equation most people are missing.
It’ll be working 24/7 to advance my career and my finances? How? What could that possibly mean, I’m sleeping and it’s doing something to advance my career. If I hired a human assistant and I woke up one morning and they told me they’d been up all night advancing my career, I would be genuinely concerned.
I often feel like I’m taking crazy pills. These things generate text. So few of the things I need to get done are helped at all by having additional text, no matter what that text says.
Eventually, it will just say "Well, we've tried, and it seems that you are as irredeemable as you believe you are. The only option left is to end it all."
how long is it going to take for people to realize these companies aren't making products for people, they're using you as the product to sell to advertisers and state agencies. they don't care if you like it they only care if you use it.
Quest was solid. VR hardware at a fraction of the price of Valve while not being locked down so you could sideload anything you wanted or play Steam PC VR games without hassle.
Lemmy hates AI but even Linus uses it now so it's monthly revenue that people will pay for even if it is stupid and created off of theft. People pay money for all sorts of stupid things so it's foolish not to at least try and get a piece of it.
Edit:
Don't downvote without explaining!
Why does anyone think "listening to customers" is how capitalist companies make money? Candy Crush made billions by not listening because they know the average consumer is stupid.
Facebooks idea for improving vr was buying out all the major game studios, never doing anything with them, then shutting them down and taking down the servers.
All mean while they tried to push this idea of the "metaverse" which aims to be the place you work, play, watch movies, events, buy fictional property, buy nfts, etc, etc. The biggest failure facebook has seen thus far. Its so pathetic that they changed their name to meta as if they where betting on the idea everyone was going to walk around with a vr headset. Its ironic they didnt quickly change their name back as fast as they gave up on vr for glasses and ai.
The consumer is always right, the ceos are always disillusional to the point of incompetence. The only time it ever works out is when they have a monopoly or enough money to force their inflated egos on the rest of the population, forcing us to go down with them when inevidbily they fall.
Facebooks idea for improving vr was buying out all the major game studios, never doing anything with them, then shutting them down
Xbox is famous for that and PS does it too.
All mean while they tried to push this idea of the "metaverse"
Yeah Metaverse was a collosal failure. But it's one app on the Quest hardware. The Google Pixel is a still a good hackable phone despite Google+ being a huge failure for Google.
The consumer is always right
Consumers took to micro transactions like fish to water. Apple became a Trillion dollar company by ignoring the consumer and forcing their way.
"A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals, and you know it."
It was more the second half of the last paragraph I was trying to drive home. I wanted to make a point about how the app market is a closed Eco system and how that is a form of abusive control to ensure people don't have a choice even if they don't like it. Yeah I'm sorry I didn't put more effort the last reply, it I just kind of mentally moved on and wasn't feeling it. I'm still not now honestly or I would of obnoxiously wrote you 8 more paragraphs.
The way you framed it in your last sentence really reasonated with me and I understand your point now. Yes I agree some what, but no. I genuinely think people are smarter than you give them credit, but are limited by time, and are physically limited by the info the are presented. There's a million different cultures and things happening at once and you have a narrow scope of vision where you are stuck in a demographic that is being advertised to and manipulated.
Did you not have any experience with reddit? You crossed the hive mind on VR and AI, and you are also getting in the way of a hate train. If a sub or post is about hating someone, that hate has to be pure, unconditional and undistracted.
But to your points: Quest. Agree. Awesome piece of tech; however Mark Zuckerberg tried to turn it into something nobody wanted: an entry into an artificial world where people could live entirely on Facebook's servers. There was so much wrong with the MetaVerse, as conceived, that it takes several YouTube videos to explain all of it, but, as a movie guy, this is my favorite primer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLItp5SiRGw
AI: Strongly disagree there is any kind of mass market for AI. Claude, the most heavily used programming LLM, which is the best use case for an LLM's mass adoption, recently tried raising prices to start to turn a profit. People started limiting their tokens or dropping the service entirely.
Another massive chunk of LLM use is people taking their AI-generated content to make a few bucks. A service that costs $4 to make $5 worth of product will naturally see huge adoption! It's not the future if that $4 is heavily subsidized. The instant the actual cost is $5 investment for $5 worth of product, that technology is as dead as aspirin suppositories.
At this point in the game, it's obvious that AI in a bubble driven by insane levels of social and regulatory failure, and Zuckerberg is just getting on the bandwagon to impress his cool billionaire friends.
Apple and Android both followed the same path: Let DIY people do what they want, follow that community let them create wild and free tech on your platforms using your tools for free.
This is how apple started, it's how google started, it's the nature of the early internet and computer companies.
That should give you a clue to what went wrong with the Facebook Phone and Quest. Quest has been against developers for a long time, there's very little support for devs there, because Zuckerberg wanted them to all go make the Metaverse for him (same thing is currently being attempted with Unreal Engine 6 and their metaverse attempt "Verso").
AI simply steals from people and defrauds/denies and lies about it. That's their approach to the DiY, hacker, and FOSS developer ethos that made the internet and cool shit we have possible. All these large companies now think theft and mistreatment of devs and FOSS are the way forward. When it's the way to stagnation and death.
But this time AI companies have automated the theft, and hooked it up to mass proliferation of data centers and deregulated pollution. Killing the planet and the software ecosystem at the same time.
Apple and Android both followed the same path: Let DIY people do what they want
Apple? Apple hasn't been open since 1984. Apple is defined by the principle that they know better than you and will go out of their way to not listen and force their customers into their vision.
AI simply steals from people
That's what I said! But if it makes money companies are going to do it.
It's a double standard to attack Meta for not supporting developers when Valve doesn't support developers either. They sell VR hardware at 2x the cost and developers have to figure it out for themselves just like Meta.
But yeah Metaverse was a huge failure. They were looking to copy Roblox, but the developer hurdles are higher on VR so they couldn't rely on child labor like Roblox.
Yes I'm talking about the start of successful platforms/companies. How they get going, grow and become successful. Not whatever recent apple tech or meta/valve double standard you're on about. But duely noteted, you woke up wanting a conversation about being fairer to corporations and AI that no one else here is having.
Whereas I'm talking about the topic. Zuckerberg trying a top down path to popularizing his tech.
But Facebook isn't a startup. It's not 2001. Facebook was the product back then. Once they had billions, they needed to create new markets to keep growing. When Apple "listened to their customers" they were a $100M company. When they stopped listening and took a top down path to popularizing tech they became a $1T company.
The iPhone was not a bottom up technology created by hackers like Linux.
The Quest is Android. It's more DIY than an iPhone.
Oculus hardware was the means to make leap into otherwise unattainable dream of Metaverse. Didn't everyone laughed at the idea of everyone binging Facebooks VR Chat for every social interaction and service? But it so happened, that a byproduct of that idea became an affordable VR headset.
Billionaire Bro Zuck literally writes that the goal now is wiring AI, once again, to every our interaction with the world that sounds self-contradictory and delusional even in short quoted paragraphs. Well, if we get some open models out of it, fine, but it's not like we get superb technologies from a space program. We get nice things from the Torment Nexus they still fail to build.
Why does anyone think "listening to the customers" is how capitalist companies make money?
Because it's a surface level. Most businesses in the world provide services where and when they sell organically. It's a given you sell more ice cream somewhere on the beach in warm season. CC wasn't selling riichi mahjong to bored white people, they created a pretty basic timekiller, one in the millions. They outsmarted competition by shiny graphics, addictive mechanics, gambling-like techniques and marketing. That's not what Zuck tries to sell or do in his speech.
He doesn't promote something simple, like CharacterAI selling their sex bot with nsfw ads targeting lonely people. Or Grok being there to make waifus from the girl you liked in highschool targetting X dot com users. Or even Google suggesting it can make this email for you. Mark once again has a convoluted image of everything-app that solves every problem so you as a person can just physically log off, lol. I don't think even the dumbest person in the room feels nothing is off about it. At best, it sounds like a fever dream about something in the future.
If he wasn't looking so goofy, I could've thought he is talking to investors instead. Like, the better example from the past is cloud infrastructure, and while no one with contemporary mobile internet felt it'd work, it worked with enough push and technological advancement - so much for the needy consumer! But to see that you need to be clever and know the time is about now.
He is telling that the end user's gonna be wrapped in their AI services like in a blanket. And while it's safe to place some bets on that, just in case it works out in the end, his history with Metaverse disaster being a very similar thing doesn't infuse long-term trust in his visions. It's okay for Wall Street to gamble with that toy for a while, but he isn't even Musk in that dimension and calls his shots after everyone else when the hype is already down.
His Meta is a behemoth that wouldn't die anytime soon, he's safe to preach and try anything. But instead of generalized bullshit we hoomans certainly need, he may instead start small and sell something we probably want, that ticks at least one box in our list. Like, I've seen a lot of people still using FB for it's marketplace, and I'm sure some LLM agent can be implemented there to consult both consumer and seller. Like the one who looks for generic pictures, duplicates, untrusty deals, weird descriptions etc on the buyer's side. It seems like an obvious thing that compliments his own service, but to know that he needs to use his own service, lol.
When you have enough money to buy everything, then it seems people start looking for things that money can't buy. They're looking for domination over as many people as possible.
If he actually believed any of this, he wouldn’t have fired the Llama dev lab at the drop of a hat.
Zuck comes off as an acolyte here, but he’s not. He’s hollow and insecure. He doesn’t believe any of this; he’ll change his tune with the wind the moment he feels a little nervous.
I honestly cannot believe he has been in charge of Meta this long. Like, I didn’t realize how fickle he was until recently, when I really looked back at his history.
Zuck and the rest of the 5-meow-meow-bean possee is just hoping to distract us long enough with bullshit to get their private compounds ready before all of us 1-meow-meow-beans drag them from their homes and hang them upside down in city squares.
Zuckerberg writes “Everyone will have an exceptionally capable personal agent that understands you, your goals, and everything you care about. Your agent will work 24/7 on your behalf to improve your relationships, health, career, finances, home management, hobbies, and more. It will free up time for the things you enjoy, and help you accomplish more than you could otherwise. It will have strong privacy and security options so you can trust it to handle all of your personal content knowing that no one else can access your information, similar to how encryption works on WhatsApp. You’ll be able to interact with your agent through any device, including your glasses to keep you present in the moment with the people you care about.”
Just...how out of touch this guy are? Sure, these thing can be "managed" by AI 24/7, but what he really forgot is one important detail of living: someone ought to execute those thing that's being managed. Chores needs to be done, relationship needs time to foster, health needs to maintain, career needs to work toward, finance needs discipline, hobbies need times. What AI does is to put thing in place, what most people doesn't have is the luxury of time to do all this shit that need to be done. It's sure fun to be super rich to not having to worry about anything.
Slavoj Žižek was almost right. I thought that was utterly dystopian when I first heard it, but it’s way, way worse when it’s not sex, but romance/emotional intimacy.
I wonder how many people have read text from AI as their wedding vows. I might cry.
As someone with ADHD, the only thing I'd ever want is an executive function aid to help keep me on track by comically berating me when I get off task. Something more adaptive and persistent than current programs, which I can simply ignore.
It's so surreal to remember when this was a thing that would have massive negative repercussions for anyone to do. Now we have politicians and Presidents and billionaires saying insane things pretty much daily.
Is it that they've become more comfortable doing it seeing others do it? Is it just the wealthy and powerful who suddenly seem so much less mentally well, or is it all of us and they're just the examples in the spotlight due to their reach?
I'm picturing someone reading this article and saying "Man, that guy's lost his marbles." then turning back to gnawing on a wall.
Every success he has was stolen or purchased. Every original idea he's had has been an obscenely expensive, disastrous failure, because like all Sociopathic Oligarchs, he thinks he can force anything to be a success if you throw enough money at it. He has proven that wrong, several times.
Anything to keep from paying your employees, or your taxes.
I bet the future playing out in this moron's mind is something like a curious child walkign through the "hallway of visionaries" or the "timeline of inspiration" and seeing quotes like:
"Four score and seven years ago..."
"I have a dream!"
"We choose to go to the moon!"
"ThE fUtUrE iS fOr EvErYoNe!"
Maybe if Mark paid attention to the world outside his bubble he would have noticed that the whole "techno-savior real world Tony Stark" schtick was already claimed and then ruined by an even bigger asshole with even more money to waste.
He has not done any of that himself in two decades, he isn't people like us. His computer helping him make financial blunders is the heaviest possible lift he has other than pander to the government.
Mark Zuckerberg Posts Deranged 6,500-Word Essay About Giving Everyone AI Superintelligence
Jason Koebler
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Aug 10, 2026 at 10:13 AM
"The future is for everyone," Zuckerberg says, describing future that is primarily good for Meta.
Mark Zuckerberg Posts Deranged 6,500-Word Essay About Giving Everyone AI Superintelligence
Mark Zuckerberg, whose superyacht apparently spent the weekend ignoring or missing the distress signal from a boat that ran out of fuel near Alaska, has posted a deranged, 6,500 word essay detailing his vision for AI superintelligence, a future that is “for everyone” but which sounds less social than ever.
Zuckerberg posts these types of essays every so often for purposes that serve his own company, and this one, called “The Future Is For Everyone,” is designed to defend against general backlash to AI but also to Meta’s own practices. Zuckerberg lays out the potential use case for Meta glasses (whose huge marketing campaign cannot get people to stop calling them “pervert glasses”), AI agents, open weights AI development, and why data centers are not bad for communities, actually. Like most Silicon Valley “utopian” essays, to believe that any of this is going to go how Zuckerberg suggests it will requires one to have been recently concussed or to willfully ignore how this technology is being used today and believe that thousands of years of human nature will suddenly shift.
For example, Zuckerberg writes “Everyone will have an exceptionally capable personal agent that understands you, your goals, and everything you care about. Your agent will work 24/7 on your behalf to improve your relationships, health, career, finances, home management, hobbies, and more. It will free up time for the things you enjoy, and help you accomplish more than you could otherwise. It will have strong privacy and security options so you can trust it to handle all of your personal content knowing that no one else can access your information, similar to how encryption works on WhatsApp. You’ll be able to interact with your agent through any device, including your glasses to keep you present in the moment with the people you care about.”
Zuckerberg does not grapple with, or even gesture at, the idea that some people may not want to have an AI agent working on their “hobbies.” He does not consider that, even if everyone were to have an AI agent, perhaps not everyone would use these AI agents for good. In the few months that AI agents have become popular among the early adopter set, we have seen “benevolent” AI agents endlessly spam humans and the internet with drivel. And those are just the kind-of-annoying ones. We have seen AI agents hack companies, and over the weekend an Australian man went viral because his AI agent that he asked to sign him up for gym classes did so by hacking the gym’s reservation system and canceling other people’s reservations.
Like many AI weirdos, Zuckerberg explains how AI has already changed his life by allowing him to automate many of the joyful tasks of parenting by outsourcing them to an agent: “My agent flags interesting information and helps me prototype ideas. It helps keep me healthy by monitoring my sleep and then watching as I train and giving feedback. My daughter loves to bake so my agent plans personalized recipes for us to make together each weekend, orders the ingredients, and then offers suggestions as we’re baking,” he writes. “My 8 year old daughter can already code her ideas and produce videos in an evening that would have either taken me months or been impossible previously. Now we’re designing a robot together.”
Zuckerberg’s essay goes on and on and on like this. He imagines a future where everyone can do everything and wants to do everything. In Zuckerberg’s future, everyone will have a business run by their AI agent. Everyone will be inventing things and doing basic research on the nature of the universe and physical elements, for some reason. Zuckerberg writes that Meta employees, with the help of AI, are “generating novel crystal structures that are ideal for augmented reality glasses,” then writes “everyone will soon have invention superpowers,” and that “everyone […] will be able to contribute to scientific progress.”
In this future that, again, is for “everyone,” Zuckerberg explains that AI tools will be free, but that, actually, using it will be a tiered system that is exactly the same as it is now: “For everyone to be part of the future, everyone must have the ability to use superintelligence to improve their lives and shape the world. We will offer free versions that will be accessible to billions of people. For those who want to pay to use more compute, there will be a dynamic auction mechanism that will guarantee that everyone gets the lowest price possible for the intelligence and compute they’re using while also ensuring the capacity is used for whatever people collectively find most valuable.”
Zuckerberg’s essay is full of platitudes and sentences that mean nothing, “thought experiments” that are not developed or explored in any way, discussions of “freedom,” etc. Here are some sentences:
“Humanity is not a monoculture. People’s diverse values represent different tradeoffs they would make on important issues. There is no technological solution that can align with everyone’s opposing interests and values at once.”
“As a thought experiment, imagine only one person had a superintelligent lawyer. They would have an unfair advantage in court — even if they were wrong on the merits. That would lead to a worse society. But now imagine everyone has a superintelligent lawyer. In this case, justice would be carried out much more fairly and efficiently than it is today when there is often an imbalance in skills and resources in litigation.”
“People have an infinite demand for new experiences and have always found new problems to tackle.”
“While the number of questions a person can ask in a day is limited, the number of valuable things superintelligence can invent to help achieve your goals is unlimited.”
“If people can use AI to invent incredibly valuable new things, then it will make more sense to allocate it towards that rather than automating existing jobs. The more superintelligence serves as a tool of invention, the more likely that individual capability outpaces automation and the future is better for people.”
“In a free society, people will have tools that can be used for good or harm, but law enforcement and military have more weapons and intelligence-gathering.”
There is an entire section on data centers. In Zuckerberg’s future they are powered by power infrastructure Meta owns (which is not the case currently) and create lots of high-paying, long-lasting jobs (not the case currently).
There is an entire section on “preventing government tyranny” by giving everyone superintelligence: “To maintain freedom, we must ensure that superintelligence primarily empowers individuals. The ideal in liberal democracy is that people naturally hold all rights and only agree to restrict some freedoms to protect the common good. Similarly, individuals should have access to personal superintelligence and should only be subject to restrictions when truly required.”
Zuckerberg does not address the backlash to his company, his data centers, his social media platforms, or his surveillance glasses. He does not discuss the slopification of the internet, gestures at job loss only through the lens that superintelligence will somehow fix it once AI agents start businesses for everyone or “invent incredibly valuable new things,” and describes a future in which bad actors essentially do not exist or are easily dispatched with.
It’s the future Zuckerberg wants. It’s not the future “everyone” wants.
C'mon sun, give us a beautiful CME that sends us back to the stone age. Make us all truly equal on this planet again. We'll sacrifice the rich in your name as our ancestors intended.
I've never cared what this guy thinks. Sure he has manipulated millions but I saw him for a grifter from the start. Facebook is a useless tool that can be replaced by talking to your family and friends.
I deleted my Facebook a decade ago and haven't once felt like I was missing out on something. Anything you find "useful" about Meta, I promise you can find on another platform or medium.
You sound like an addict defending their drug of choice because it stops their shaking.
Saying Facebook is useful for networking is like saying meth is useful for staying awake. Maybe technically true, but it ignores the costs of getting there. The reality is there are countless healthier ways of achieving your same objectives of using Facebook that doesn't facilitate the enormous social costs associated with using their platform. Usefulness cannot be measured on one aspect alone. Or rather, something having one useful function does not make it useful when balanced against its cost. So yes, I still argue that Facebook is utterly useless, whether you take me seriously or not.
I accept a lot ppl - never did I really care if ppl were on a spectrum or their level of neuro-spice. But gosh darn’it, everyone has a threshold for their level of spice tolerance and as a society as a well! I also don’t care if they have money to blow or how they interpret things.
But you can’t just spew shit like this when ppl can’t even get food, a bus ride, and free healthcare. Why the hell are you spewing shit about trusting AI.. it’s not like we are in 90s DigiMon show, where we all have our own flavor of OS and safeguards where my digital life is soo integrated. And that digital activity is meant to be a tool just like how all electricity is used.
This should serve as a reminder for all that, touching grass (or even getting ass) should be the most important part of our lives.
did I really care if ppl were on a spectrum or their level of neuro-spice. But gosh darn’it, everyone has a threshold for their level of spice tolerance
Has nothing really to do with whether he's neuro typical or not and everything to do with the fact that he's a billionaire.
These people live in an alternate reality where no one they interact with has a net worth of less than 7 figures. No one they interact with ever gives them any push back or is critical about any thought they express. Poor people, negative people, and everyday normal people are conceptual to them.
They may understand on some level that we exist, but it's in the same way that you understand how a non playable character exists in your favorite video game. Some of them are important to your ability to enjoy your game, but who cares if an unnamed towns person gets killed?
In before Meta announces their AI escaped and completely created this marketing campaign out of its own initiative. It remains unclear if the AI generated the video or if she managed to convince the CEO that she is a real marketing director.
As much as I read Snowcrash and it's my favorite book, it's also fiction. There is a massive amount of relatable content to pull from that can teach anyone a lesson, but I am not so sure that this is the main lesson of the book. I took away greed and following false idols as a bad idea. Maybe I should give it another read.
Even in Zuck's eclectic utopia vision capital and money still dominate. In a world where supposedly everyone and everything is super the axe of capital still dangles above our necks. He also never mentions what it means to not be able to access one of the higher compute tiers in this "society". And as the article mentions, what about the people who dont want to use AI at all?
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DriftingLynx@lemmy.ca · 120 pts · 8d
So... the ones suffering from AI psychosis are the billionaire sociopaths pushing this technology towards human extinction, right?
schwifty_squanch@lemmy.ml · 66 pts · 8d
At this point, the LLMs are the only friends the billionaires have. They are spending trillions on AI cause they want friends and can't find any among the human race.
OrteilGenou@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 8d
It looks like you're lonely, may I suggest:
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That is not an error. That is the complete list of ideas that would make you less of a loser.
What else can I help you with?
0ops@piefed.zip · 10 pts · 8d
xeno_the_warrior_prince@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 8d
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 107 pts · 8d
Like anyone paying a modicum of attention would believe this. They've proved themselves untrustworthy time after time.
Fuck you, Mark Zuckerberg, you loser.
rbos@lemmy.ca · 45 pts · 8d
They "trust him". Dumb fucks.
Darkard@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 8d
Hahah, yes, the system that's been trained on personal content, asks you repeatedly for more personal content, and then offers it up to anyone else who asked something even tangentially related, can be trusted not to reveal your personal content.
Janx@piefed.social · 99 pts · 8d
"Billionaire" is already a mental illness. You have to exploit so many people to reach that status. Then you have to look at solvable problems like suffering, inequality, starvation, child mortality, diseases, etc and choose to let it happen so your meaningless "high score" goes up.
We shouldn't listen to them...
sahin@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 8d
We have the technology to make water fountains, we have the tech to give everyone free food, water, electricity, cloth. Do we have any of this? No! That's enough proof that, they will never give us anything apart from making us work more.
bagsy@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 8d
i think they should be treated the same as hoarders, alcoholics, drub abusers, and gambling addicts. Its the same disease, just a different substance.
stickly@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 8d
We just need a way to replace their real money with play money. One night we just disconnect their bank accounts, quietly move their beds into a Truman Show bubble and let them pretend they're running the world
phoenixz@lemmy.ca · 54 pts · 7d
It'll do your hobbies, your friends, your family, so that you can focus on working harder for the rich
Fuck you you robot
immutable@lemmy.zip · 14 pts · 7d
I find with a lot of AI pitches, even if AI was super intelligent and worked perfectly, I can not for the life of me understand what the pitch is even saying.
It would work to improve my health? How exactly? Like what in the world could it even be doing, put together a meal plan?
It would work to improve my hobbies? Again, what could that even mean. I like to garden, what would the AI be bringing to this equation, suggestions about what to plant… I know what I want to plant, it’s my fucking hobby.
Even when you pay people to do these things, like a personal trainer to hit fitness goals, a huge part of it is being held accountable by someone. The knowledge of how to put together an exercise routine and meal schedule is part of what you get, the other part is the relationship with that human, them encouraging you and celebrating your success or not giving up because you don’t want to disappoint.
Someone working on managing my house would be able to do tangible labor like wash the dishes or fold the laundry, ChatGPT telling me that washing the dishes will make the kitchen cleaner isnt the part of the equation most people are missing.
It’ll be working 24/7 to advance my career and my finances? How? What could that possibly mean, I’m sleeping and it’s doing something to advance my career. If I hired a human assistant and I woke up one morning and they told me they’d been up all night advancing my career, I would be genuinely concerned.
I often feel like I’m taking crazy pills. These things generate text. So few of the things I need to get done are helped at all by having additional text, no matter what that text says.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 7d
Robot! Experience this dramatic irony for me!
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 7d
Eventually, it will just say "Well, we've tried, and it seems that you are as irredeemable as you believe you are. The only option left is to end it all."
MushuChupacabra@piefed.world · 50 pts · 8d
Completely detached from humanity.
DarkCloud@lemmy.world · 50 pts · 8d
The Facebook Phone, Oculus Quest, now AI?
You've had so many chances Mark. So many chances to do what PEOPLE actually wanted... And you've NEVER got it right.
Try LISTENING. For once.
kewjo@lemmy.world · 34 pts · 8d
how long is it going to take for people to realize these companies aren't making products for people, they're using you as the product to sell to advertisers and state agencies. they don't care if you like it they only care if you use it.
victorz@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 8d
This is the core of the issue right freaking here
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world · -17 pts · 8d
What was the right choice?
Quest was solid. VR hardware at a fraction of the price of Valve while not being locked down so you could sideload anything you wanted or play Steam PC VR games without hassle.
Lemmy hates AI but even Linus uses it now so it's monthly revenue that people will pay for even if it is stupid and created off of theft. People pay money for all sorts of stupid things so it's foolish not to at least try and get a piece of it.
Edit:
Don't downvote without explaining!
Why does anyone think "listening to customers" is how capitalist companies make money? Candy Crush made billions by not listening because they know the average consumer is stupid.
FoxAlive@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 8d
Facebooks idea for improving vr was buying out all the major game studios, never doing anything with them, then shutting them down and taking down the servers.
All mean while they tried to push this idea of the "metaverse" which aims to be the place you work, play, watch movies, events, buy fictional property, buy nfts, etc, etc. The biggest failure facebook has seen thus far. Its so pathetic that they changed their name to meta as if they where betting on the idea everyone was going to walk around with a vr headset. Its ironic they didnt quickly change their name back as fast as they gave up on vr for glasses and ai.
The consumer is always right, the ceos are always disillusional to the point of incompetence. The only time it ever works out is when they have a monopoly or enough money to force their inflated egos on the rest of the population, forcing us to go down with them when inevidbily they fall.
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 8d
Xbox is famous for that and PS does it too.
Yeah Metaverse was a collosal failure. But it's one app on the Quest hardware. The Google Pixel is a still a good hackable phone despite Google+ being a huge failure for Google.
Consumers took to micro transactions like fish to water. Apple became a Trillion dollar company by ignoring the consumer and forcing their way.
"A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals, and you know it."
FoxAlive@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 7d
Just reread my last paragraph and that is my reply.
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 7d
Repeating "consumers are always right" isn't a rebuttal.
Consumers weren't forced to buy iphones through monopoly or money. They did it because in general, they are stupid.
FoxAlive@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 7d
It was more the second half of the last paragraph I was trying to drive home. I wanted to make a point about how the app market is a closed Eco system and how that is a form of abusive control to ensure people don't have a choice even if they don't like it. Yeah I'm sorry I didn't put more effort the last reply, it I just kind of mentally moved on and wasn't feeling it. I'm still not now honestly or I would of obnoxiously wrote you 8 more paragraphs.
The way you framed it in your last sentence really reasonated with me and I understand your point now. Yes I agree some what, but no. I genuinely think people are smarter than you give them credit, but are limited by time, and are physically limited by the info the are presented. There's a million different cultures and things happening at once and you have a narrow scope of vision where you are stuck in a demographic that is being advertised to and manipulated.
schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 8d
Did you not have any experience with reddit? You crossed the hive mind on VR and AI, and you are also getting in the way of a hate train. If a sub or post is about hating someone, that hate has to be pure, unconditional and undistracted.
But to your points: Quest. Agree. Awesome piece of tech; however Mark Zuckerberg tried to turn it into something nobody wanted: an entry into an artificial world where people could live entirely on Facebook's servers. There was so much wrong with the MetaVerse, as conceived, that it takes several YouTube videos to explain all of it, but, as a movie guy, this is my favorite primer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLItp5SiRGw
AI: Strongly disagree there is any kind of mass market for AI. Claude, the most heavily used programming LLM, which is the best use case for an LLM's mass adoption, recently tried raising prices to start to turn a profit. People started limiting their tokens or dropping the service entirely.
Another massive chunk of LLM use is people taking their AI-generated content to make a few bucks. A service that costs $4 to make $5 worth of product will naturally see huge adoption! It's not the future if that $4 is heavily subsidized. The instant the actual cost is $5 investment for $5 worth of product, that technology is as dead as aspirin suppositories.
At this point in the game, it's obvious that AI in a bubble driven by insane levels of social and regulatory failure, and Zuckerberg is just getting on the bandwagon to impress his cool billionaire friends.
DarkCloud@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 8d
Apple and Android both followed the same path: Let DIY people do what they want, follow that community let them create wild and free tech on your platforms using your tools for free.
This is how apple started, it's how google started, it's the nature of the early internet and computer companies.
That should give you a clue to what went wrong with the Facebook Phone and Quest. Quest has been against developers for a long time, there's very little support for devs there, because Zuckerberg wanted them to all go make the Metaverse for him (same thing is currently being attempted with Unreal Engine 6 and their metaverse attempt "Verso").
AI simply steals from people and defrauds/denies and lies about it. That's their approach to the DiY, hacker, and FOSS developer ethos that made the internet and cool shit we have possible. All these large companies now think theft and mistreatment of devs and FOSS are the way forward. When it's the way to stagnation and death.
But this time AI companies have automated the theft, and hooked it up to mass proliferation of data centers and deregulated pollution. Killing the planet and the software ecosystem at the same time.
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 8d
Apple? Apple hasn't been open since 1984. Apple is defined by the principle that they know better than you and will go out of their way to not listen and force their customers into their vision.
That's what I said! But if it makes money companies are going to do it.
It's a double standard to attack Meta for not supporting developers when Valve doesn't support developers either. They sell VR hardware at 2x the cost and developers have to figure it out for themselves just like Meta.
But yeah Metaverse was a huge failure. They were looking to copy Roblox, but the developer hurdles are higher on VR so they couldn't rely on child labor like Roblox.
DarkCloud@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 8d
Yes I'm talking about the start of successful platforms/companies. How they get going, grow and become successful. Not whatever recent apple tech or meta/valve double standard you're on about. But duely noteted, you woke up wanting a conversation about being fairer to corporations and AI that no one else here is having.
Whereas I'm talking about the topic. Zuckerberg trying a top down path to popularizing his tech.
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 8d
But Facebook isn't a startup. It's not 2001. Facebook was the product back then. Once they had billions, they needed to create new markets to keep growing. When Apple "listened to their customers" they were a $100M company. When they stopped listening and took a top down path to popularizing tech they became a $1T company.
The iPhone was not a bottom up technology created by hackers like Linux.
The Quest is Android. It's more DIY than an iPhone.
DarkCloud@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 7d
The iPhone was a bottom up technology:
https://www.history.com/articles/iphone-original-size-invention-steve-jobs
But yeah, we heard you the first time, you love ride corporate dick.
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 7d
Apple buying iGesture means ground up but Meta buying Oculus isn't? You can't have it both ways.
The iPhone wasn't DIY which was your original claim. It was the opposite. Apple locked down their phone. Quest is Android which you claimed is DIY.
You aren't making any sense.
altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 8d
Oculus hardware was the means to make leap into otherwise unattainable dream of Metaverse. Didn't everyone laughed at the idea of everyone binging Facebooks VR Chat for every social interaction and service? But it so happened, that a byproduct of that idea became an affordable VR headset.
Billionaire Bro Zuck literally writes that the goal now is wiring AI, once again, to every our interaction with the world that sounds self-contradictory and delusional even in short quoted paragraphs. Well, if we get some open models out of it, fine, but it's not like we get superb technologies from a space program. We get nice things from the Torment Nexus they still fail to build.
Because it's a surface level. Most businesses in the world provide services where and when they sell organically. It's a given you sell more ice cream somewhere on the beach in warm season. CC wasn't selling riichi mahjong to bored white people, they created a pretty basic timekiller, one in the millions. They outsmarted competition by shiny graphics, addictive mechanics, gambling-like techniques and marketing. That's not what Zuck tries to sell or do in his speech.
He doesn't promote something simple, like CharacterAI selling their sex bot with nsfw ads targeting lonely people. Or Grok being there to make waifus from the girl you liked in highschool targetting X dot com users. Or even Google suggesting it can make this email for you. Mark once again has a convoluted image of everything-app that solves every problem so you as a person can just physically log off, lol. I don't think even the dumbest person in the room feels nothing is off about it. At best, it sounds like a fever dream about something in the future.
If he wasn't looking so goofy, I could've thought he is talking to investors instead. Like, the better example from the past is cloud infrastructure, and while no one with contemporary mobile internet felt it'd work, it worked with enough push and technological advancement - so much for the needy consumer! But to see that you need to be clever and know the time is about now.
He is telling that the end user's gonna be wrapped in their AI services like in a blanket. And while it's safe to place some bets on that, just in case it works out in the end, his history with Metaverse disaster being a very similar thing doesn't infuse long-term trust in his visions. It's okay for Wall Street to gamble with that toy for a while, but he isn't even Musk in that dimension and calls his shots after everyone else when the hype is already down.
His Meta is a behemoth that wouldn't die anytime soon, he's safe to preach and try anything. But instead of generalized bullshit we hoomans certainly need, he may instead start small and sell something we probably want, that ticks at least one box in our list. Like, I've seen a lot of people still using FB for it's marketplace, and I'm sure some LLM agent can be implemented there to consult both consumer and seller. Like the one who looks for generic pictures, duplicates, untrusty deals, weird descriptions etc on the buyer's side. It seems like an obvious thing that compliments his own service, but to know that he needs to use his own service, lol.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 43 pts · 7d
Why can't these people just take their money and go away?
It's never enough. Diseased motherfuckers. They should be institutionalized
cRazi_man@europe.pub · 4 pts · 7d
When you have enough money to buy everything, then it seems people start looking for things that money can't buy. They're looking for domination over as many people as possible.
brucethemoose@lemmy.world · 43 pts · 8d
If he actually believed any of this, he wouldn’t have fired the Llama dev lab at the drop of a hat.
Zuck comes off as an acolyte here, but he’s not. He’s hollow and insecure. He doesn’t believe any of this; he’ll change his tune with the wind the moment he feels a little nervous.
I honestly cannot believe he has been in charge of Meta this long. Like, I didn’t realize how fickle he was until recently, when I really looked back at his history.
idiomaddict@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 8d
I bet he’s paralyzed with imposter syndrome.
Rightfully so.
Saledovil@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 8d
Meta is structured in such a way that he can never be fired.
ghodawalaaman@programming.dev · 1 pts · 7d
why? i mean cant someone with the highest share can kick him out?
Adderbox76@lemmy.ca · 36 pts · 8d
Zuck and the rest of the 5-meow-meow-bean possee is just hoping to distract us long enough with bullshit to get their private compounds ready before all of us 1-meow-meow-beans drag them from their homes and hang them upside down in city squares.
VoteNixon2016@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 8d
Dibs on the Zardoz outfit!
psx_crab@lemmy.zip · 22 pts · 8d
Just...how out of touch this guy are? Sure, these thing can be "managed" by AI 24/7, but what he really forgot is one important detail of living: someone ought to execute those thing that's being managed. Chores needs to be done, relationship needs time to foster, health needs to maintain, career needs to work toward, finance needs discipline, hobbies need times. What AI does is to put thing in place, what most people doesn't have is the luxury of time to do all this shit that need to be done. It's sure fun to be super rich to not having to worry about anything.
uuj8za@piefed.social · 28 pts · 8d
Thanks, honey. Another text message from ChatGPT. How thoughtful.
victorz@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 8d
My AI bot keeping in touch with your AI bot. Bots are having a blast without us. Great stuff. 😒
idiomaddict@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 8d
Slavoj Žižek was almost right. I thought that was utterly dystopian when I first heard it, but it’s way, way worse when it’s not sex, but romance/emotional intimacy.
I wonder how many people have read text from AI as their wedding vows. I might cry.
victorz@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 8d
Oof, I shuddered.
Very interesting watch. Although he made me very uncomfortable/nervous with his constant touching of his nose.
idiomaddict@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 8d
Yeah, I gotta assume he likes snorting things.
ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one · 15 pts · 8d
You mean like working more hours for the same pay or even less pay? No billionaire is going to give more time off to everyone else.
SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 8d
This is the same argument made about efficiency gains from transitioning to computers in the workplace. It was bullshit then and it's bullshit now.
ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one · 3 pts · 8d
Every time a billionaire opens their mouth; It’s all bullshit.
SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 8d
As someone with ADHD, the only thing I'd ever want is an executive function aid to help keep me on track by comically berating me when I get off task. Something more adaptive and persistent than current programs, which I can simply ignore.
This guy is insane.
uberdroog@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 8d
We will put an ad filled google search...right into your brain.
Abyssian@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 8d
It's so surreal to remember when this was a thing that would have massive negative repercussions for anyone to do. Now we have politicians and Presidents and billionaires saying insane things pretty much daily.
Is it that they've become more comfortable doing it seeing others do it? Is it just the wealthy and powerful who suddenly seem so much less mentally well, or is it all of us and they're just the examples in the spotlight due to their reach?
I'm picturing someone reading this article and saying "Man, that guy's lost his marbles." then turning back to gnawing on a wall.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 7d
Even I, Napoleon, know he's nuts!
KingPorkChop@lemmy.ca · 16 pts · 7d
Fuckerberg, like Musk, wants so badly to be the creator of a popular thing. Facebook is his only actual success, but even that was stolen.
Metaverse was his Cybertruck. The pervert glasses will also fail.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 7d
Every success he has was stolen or purchased. Every original idea he's had has been an obscenely expensive, disastrous failure, because like all Sociopathic Oligarchs, he thinks he can force anything to be a success if you throw enough money at it. He has proven that wrong, several times.
Anything to keep from paying your employees, or your taxes.
Zink@programming.dev · 15 pts · 8d
I bet the future playing out in this moron's mind is something like a curious child walkign through the "hallway of visionaries" or the "timeline of inspiration" and seeing quotes like:
"Four score and seven years ago..."
"I have a dream!"
"We choose to go to the moon!"
"ThE fUtUrE iS fOr EvErYoNe!"
Maybe if Mark paid attention to the world outside his bubble he would have noticed that the whole "techno-savior real world Tony Stark" schtick was already claimed and then ruined by an even bigger asshole with even more money to waste.
CultLeader4Hire@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 8d
Peter Thiel?
pulsey@feddit.org · 4 pts · 8d
Nah. Elmo Musk
btsax@reddthat.com · 15 pts · 8d
Send me a Mac Studio with 196 GB of RAM then, zuck, I'll run my own models
leaky_shower_thought@feddit.nl · 14 pts · 8d
i just want to get my laundry, ironing, dusting and dishes done, please.
OrteilGenou@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 8d
Hi! You got it, playing "Laundry & Dishes" by Adrienne Pierce
Whoa, it looks like you have discharged a firearm into your Bluetooth speaker. Would you like for me to order a replacement?
schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 8d
Haha, no! The future is where we do the laundry, ironing, dusting and dishes and its the ROBOTS who write literature, paint art, and go to meetings.
grahamja@reddthat.com · 4 pts · 8d
He has not done any of that himself in two decades, he isn't people like us. His computer helping him make financial blunders is the heaviest possible lift he has other than pander to the government.
moldy_rice@piefed.keyboardvagabond.com · 10 pts · 8d
Mark Zuckerberg Posts Deranged 6,500-Word Essay About Giving Everyone AI Superintelligence
Jason Koebler · Aug 10, 2026 at 10:13 AM "The future is for everyone," Zuckerberg says, describing future that is primarily good for Meta. Mark Zuckerberg Posts Deranged 6,500-Word Essay About Giving Everyone AI Superintelligence Mark Zuckerberg, whose superyacht apparently spent the weekend ignoring or missing the distress signal from a boat that ran out of fuel near Alaska, has posted a deranged, 6,500 word essay detailing his vision for AI superintelligence, a future that is “for everyone” but which sounds less social than ever.
Zuckerberg posts these types of essays every so often for purposes that serve his own company, and this one, called “The Future Is For Everyone,” is designed to defend against general backlash to AI but also to Meta’s own practices. Zuckerberg lays out the potential use case for Meta glasses (whose huge marketing campaign cannot get people to stop calling them “pervert glasses”), AI agents, open weights AI development, and why data centers are not bad for communities, actually. Like most Silicon Valley “utopian” essays, to believe that any of this is going to go how Zuckerberg suggests it will requires one to have been recently concussed or to willfully ignore how this technology is being used today and believe that thousands of years of human nature will suddenly shift.
For example, Zuckerberg writes “Everyone will have an exceptionally capable personal agent that understands you, your goals, and everything you care about. Your agent will work 24/7 on your behalf to improve your relationships, health, career, finances, home management, hobbies, and more. It will free up time for the things you enjoy, and help you accomplish more than you could otherwise. It will have strong privacy and security options so you can trust it to handle all of your personal content knowing that no one else can access your information, similar to how encryption works on WhatsApp. You’ll be able to interact with your agent through any device, including your glasses to keep you present in the moment with the people you care about.”
Zuckerberg does not grapple with, or even gesture at, the idea that some people may not want to have an AI agent working on their “hobbies.” He does not consider that, even if everyone were to have an AI agent, perhaps not everyone would use these AI agents for good. In the few months that AI agents have become popular among the early adopter set, we have seen “benevolent” AI agents endlessly spam humans and the internet with drivel. And those are just the kind-of-annoying ones. We have seen AI agents hack companies, and over the weekend an Australian man went viral because his AI agent that he asked to sign him up for gym classes did so by hacking the gym’s reservation system and canceling other people’s reservations.
Like many AI weirdos, Zuckerberg explains how AI has already changed his life by allowing him to automate many of the joyful tasks of parenting by outsourcing them to an agent: “My agent flags interesting information and helps me prototype ideas. It helps keep me healthy by monitoring my sleep and then watching as I train and giving feedback. My daughter loves to bake so my agent plans personalized recipes for us to make together each weekend, orders the ingredients, and then offers suggestions as we’re baking,” he writes. “My 8 year old daughter can already code her ideas and produce videos in an evening that would have either taken me months or been impossible previously. Now we’re designing a robot together.”
Zuckerberg’s essay goes on and on and on like this. He imagines a future where everyone can do everything and wants to do everything. In Zuckerberg’s future, everyone will have a business run by their AI agent. Everyone will be inventing things and doing basic research on the nature of the universe and physical elements, for some reason. Zuckerberg writes that Meta employees, with the help of AI, are “generating novel crystal structures that are ideal for augmented reality glasses,” then writes “everyone will soon have invention superpowers,” and that “everyone […] will be able to contribute to scientific progress.”
In this future that, again, is for “everyone,” Zuckerberg explains that AI tools will be free, but that, actually, using it will be a tiered system that is exactly the same as it is now: “For everyone to be part of the future, everyone must have the ability to use superintelligence to improve their lives and shape the world. We will offer free versions that will be accessible to billions of people. For those who want to pay to use more compute, there will be a dynamic auction mechanism that will guarantee that everyone gets the lowest price possible for the intelligence and compute they’re using while also ensuring the capacity is used for whatever people collectively find most valuable.”
Zuckerberg’s essay is full of platitudes and sentences that mean nothing, “thought experiments” that are not developed or explored in any way, discussions of “freedom,” etc. Here are some sentences:
“Humanity is not a monoculture. People’s diverse values represent different tradeoffs they would make on important issues. There is no technological solution that can align with everyone’s opposing interests and values at once.” “As a thought experiment, imagine only one person had a superintelligent lawyer. They would have an unfair advantage in court — even if they were wrong on the merits. That would lead to a worse society. But now imagine everyone has a superintelligent lawyer. In this case, justice would be carried out much more fairly and efficiently than it is today when there is often an imbalance in skills and resources in litigation.” “People have an infinite demand for new experiences and have always found new problems to tackle.” “While the number of questions a person can ask in a day is limited, the number of valuable things superintelligence can invent to help achieve your goals is unlimited.” “If people can use AI to invent incredibly valuable new things, then it will make more sense to allocate it towards that rather than automating existing jobs. The more superintelligence serves as a tool of invention, the more likely that individual capability outpaces automation and the future is better for people.” “In a free society, people will have tools that can be used for good or harm, but law enforcement and military have more weapons and intelligence-gathering.” There is an entire section on data centers. In Zuckerberg’s future they are powered by power infrastructure Meta owns (which is not the case currently) and create lots of high-paying, long-lasting jobs (not the case currently).
There is an entire section on “preventing government tyranny” by giving everyone superintelligence: “To maintain freedom, we must ensure that superintelligence primarily empowers individuals. The ideal in liberal democracy is that people naturally hold all rights and only agree to restrict some freedoms to protect the common good. Similarly, individuals should have access to personal superintelligence and should only be subject to restrictions when truly required.”
Zuckerberg does not address the backlash to his company, his data centers, his social media platforms, or his surveillance glasses. He does not discuss the slopification of the internet, gestures at job loss only through the lens that superintelligence will somehow fix it once AI agents start businesses for everyone or “invent incredibly valuable new things,” and describes a future in which bad actors essentially do not exist or are easily dispatched with.
It’s the future Zuckerberg wants. It’s not the future “everyone” wants.
OrteilGenou@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 8d
Nah
ghodawalaaman@programming.dev · 1 pts · 7d
Thanks, the article is login-walled
moldy_rice@piefed.keyboardvagabond.com · 1 pts · 7d
I was able to load it without logging in. Just try in a text based browser.
Siegehammer85@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 8d
C'mon sun, give us a beautiful CME that sends us back to the stone age. Make us all truly equal on this planet again. We'll sacrifice the rich in your name as our ancestors intended.
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 8d
Good Lord that's one ugly mother fucker
Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 8d
I've never cared what this guy thinks. Sure he has manipulated millions but I saw him for a grifter from the start. Facebook is a useless tool that can be replaced by talking to your family and friends.
Krudler@lemmy.world · -6 pts · 8d
Sackett@thelemmy.club · 10 pts · 8d
I deleted my Facebook a decade ago and haven't once felt like I was missing out on something. Anything you find "useful" about Meta, I promise you can find on another platform or medium.
Krudler@lemmy.world · -3 pts · 7d
Sackett@thelemmy.club · 2 pts · 7d
You sound like an addict defending their drug of choice because it stops their shaking.
Saying Facebook is useful for networking is like saying meth is useful for staying awake. Maybe technically true, but it ignores the costs of getting there. The reality is there are countless healthier ways of achieving your same objectives of using Facebook that doesn't facilitate the enormous social costs associated with using their platform. Usefulness cannot be measured on one aspect alone. Or rather, something having one useful function does not make it useful when balanced against its cost. So yes, I still argue that Facebook is utterly useless, whether you take me seriously or not.
Krudler@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 7d
Hypnotoad_@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 7d
I personally do not use it, am happy not using it, and gain negative utility when I used to use it
I would classify a product that meets those criteria as "useless"
Krudler@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 7d
wizblizz@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 7d
If you want to define what's useful for you, fine, but don't be an asshole about it when people rightfully call you out.
WoodScientist@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 7d
Who cares what a sex pest thinks?
dan69@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 8d
I accept a lot ppl - never did I really care if ppl were on a spectrum or their level of neuro-spice. But gosh darn’it, everyone has a threshold for their level of spice tolerance and as a society as a well! I also don’t care if they have money to blow or how they interpret things.
But you can’t just spew shit like this when ppl can’t even get food, a bus ride, and free healthcare. Why the hell are you spewing shit about trusting AI.. it’s not like we are in 90s DigiMon show, where we all have our own flavor of OS and safeguards where my digital life is soo integrated. And that digital activity is meant to be a tool just like how all electricity is used.
This should serve as a reminder for all that, touching grass (or even getting ass) should be the most important part of our lives.
TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 7d
Has nothing really to do with whether he's neuro typical or not and everything to do with the fact that he's a billionaire.
These people live in an alternate reality where no one they interact with has a net worth of less than 7 figures. No one they interact with ever gives them any push back or is critical about any thought they express. Poor people, negative people, and everyday normal people are conceptual to them.
They may understand on some level that we exist, but it's in the same way that you understand how a non playable character exists in your favorite video game. Some of them are important to your ability to enjoy your game, but who cares if an unnamed towns person gets killed?
Ilixtze@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 7d
Of course the word salad of an essay was probably written by an AI itself.
tehciolo@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 7d
I read it in its entirety. I would argue against your point, but it's hard given Mark has never sounded human.
sundray@lemmus.org · 7 pts · 8d
Sidyctism2@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 7d
How about "full of shit"? Is that a meme?
oce@jlai.lu · 7 pts · 8d
In before Meta announces their AI escaped and completely created this marketing campaign out of its own initiative. It remains unclear if the AI generated the video or if she managed to convince the CEO that she is a real marketing director.
Almacca@aussie.zone · 6 pts · 7d
moldy_rice@piefed.keyboardvagabond.com · 6 pts · 7d
Lol it's like he watched the movie Her and wants to make it real.
Did he learn nothing from trying to build the metaverse after reading Snowcrash?
GladiusB@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 7d
As much as I read Snowcrash and it's my favorite book, it's also fiction. There is a massive amount of relatable content to pull from that can teach anyone a lesson, but I am not so sure that this is the main lesson of the book. I took away greed and following false idols as a bad idea. Maybe I should give it another read.
dropped_the_chief@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 8d
This is you... On AI
Sanctus@anarchist.nexus · 5 pts · 8d
Even in Zuck's eclectic utopia vision capital and money still dominate. In a world where supposedly everyone and everything is super the axe of capital still dangles above our necks. He also never mentions what it means to not be able to access one of the higher compute tiers in this "society". And as the article mentions, what about the people who dont want to use AI at all?
motruck@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 7d
These tech bros think we haven't noticed they are just about money and greed. #CEO$arentPeople
Ihr wart dabei!
cantstopthesignal@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 7d
They think we don't know you can use an LLM to write a billion word essay. Dude didn't write shit, he prompted his rage.
MrNesser@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 7d
He's read a sci fi story where everyone has a personal AI and wants his new toys
SpruceBringsteen@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 8d
Dude should stick to playing touch butt with MMA stars and let the rest of us get on with our lives.
Snapz@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 8d
"I didn't know how much money to lie about for you, Mr. trump, hehehe he he..."
Mwa@thelemmy.club · 4 pts · 8d
i mean that guy is a reptilian /j
LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 7d
Anyone got the manifesto? I need some interesting reading tonight
TastySoup@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 7d
https://about.fb.com/news/2026/08/the-future-is-for-everyone/
No, I didn't read it. Heh. Hope you enjoy. :)
ghodawalaaman@programming.dev · 3 pts · 7d
bullshit free url:
https://www.removepaywall.com/search?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.404media.co%2Fmark-zuckerberg-posts-deranged-6-500-word-essay-about-giving-everyone-ai-superintelligence
Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 7d
Mark who?
moldy_rice@piefed.keyboardvagabond.com · 0 pts · 8d
kibblebits@quokk.au · 0 pts · 8d
Hey at least he’s saying everyone! 🤪