This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
When Zuck builds his inevitable broligarch dick rocket, he should try to land it on the sun.
You sir, deserve an upvote. Funniest shit I read so far today.
The one and only good thing about having less friends than in my teens is that I have more time to focus on work, which makes me money (directly proportional to how much I bill my clients). That and being able to move off Facebook because my friends are on Signal and Telegram.
Now, Zuck thinks I want fake AI friends so I could spend hours per day on Messenger again? Hell nah. I'll go grab a beer in the pub or message one of my remaining real friends. If I dedicate my life to chatbots, I'll soon have even fewer.
For several reasons (including this one), I deactivated my Facebook account a month ago, but have kept Messenger to maintain contact with people. Does anyone have a good suggestion for a different app that functions like Messenger, but helps me divest from feeding Markie Mark my valuable user data?
I don't know Mark, I might not, but at least I have good friends. Can you say the same for yourself?
The enshitification of everything continues
From the metaverse to his new AI fueled drivel. Zuckerberg has been very busy trying to convince us to divest from the real world and submerge ourselves into his virtual worlds of delight. Up to this point his products have been pure shit. But I worry the time will come where better engineered "mirrors in our cages" will succeed where the Zuck is just flopping about.
I would rather talk with the guards in Whiterun than your chatbot, zuck.
My cousin's out fighting dragons, and what do I get? Chat duty.
That is one of the sickest burns I've read in a while.
We don't want to chat with you Zuck.
Who needs friends when we have each other, amirite? Right guys? …guys?
YES. OF COURSE.
Funny, less than an hour ago I heard Ed Zitron speculate that these uber-rich tech bros invent these things because they don't know how to socialise, and they think everybody is like that.
We can put our spy specs on and update our spy site profile on our spy device and if there is anything left that is just ours we can now tell it to our spy friend.
Dammit, Zuck! You don't have to hide behind a "chatbot", just fucking tell me if you want to be my friend.
Also, no. But be fucking honest about it.
I don't think this guy understands the concept of a friend. "Friend" isn't just a speaking machine. Friendship is mostly about some deeds. In many cases even useful deeds, not just fun messing around.
I have very few friends, but chatbots are not the answer.
Detached
Bit of projection there, Mr. Suck.
Dude made Facebook because he had trouble getting a girlfriend and even now, with near infinite money, needs to make a chatbot because he still can't make friends.
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.
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.
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.
Does he really need to do that though? Isn’t he the majority shareholder and he can essentially do what he wants?
It’s the dude. He fucking built the system.
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.
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.
Yeah I can see what you're getting at here and I agree.
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.
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.
............
And to gather marketing Intel on the victim, I mean customer.
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.
Then use that to sell them products and adjust their worldview in profitable ways.
