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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.
I don’t need friends. I’m married.
android zuckerberg married to a human wife.
Impressive how a single guy pathology shaped an entire generation and the internet
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.
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.
How people still use meta products is beyond me
older people, and some right wingers do.
Whatsapp for my family group, Instagram rarely to keep with my friends (I'm gen z)
Is that so? Will the chatbots help me pack a van when I need to move? Will they stand next to me at my wedding? I'm thrilled to hear that bots can finally replace friends! (Something the people have been clamoring for)
he's right. I don't have any friends.
because I refuse to use his shitty platform and every human I have came in contact with for my entire life is so hollow and selfish they can't interact with a human being without some form of technology.
so I come on lemmy and harass fascist supporting scum as a hobby.
I tried making a new FB account recently, strictly for business purposes and they suspended my account immediately. Looked it up and apparently it’s pretty common. I was shocked at first but am now happy they did that. Fuck FB.
Now that the US has actual concentration camps and actual Nacht und Nebel disappearances, not to mention arrests of judges and political enemies, we have a lot of folk who have been promoted from silent bystander to collaborator or complicit in the imminent holocaust.
The next step for the regime is to decide imprisonment of the undesirables is too expensive and we should proceed to evacuation (id est, mass execution).
The complicit category includes every elected or appointed official that continues to cooperate with the current government without obstructing procedure until the facilities are closed and prisoners set free, including those on foreign soil. Democrats included.
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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
I would rather talk to a 37 year old human with a hello kitty pfp on some obscure otacore furry/anime forum that absolutely nobody has heard of than give your dogshit AI skinwalkers ten seconds of my attention dawg.
You took my routine. My health. My taste in music, the books I read, the places I go, the movies I watch. My every aspiration and passing thought was a transactional end point for slop firms.
I will die old and lonely before I let you turn my friendships into a fucking commodity LMAO.
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.
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Fuck you four eyes
- 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
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"the average American has fewer than three people who would suck their dick, fewer than three people that would even consider it. And the average person has demand for meaningfully more.”
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When Zuck builds his inevitable broligarch dick rocket, he should try to land it on the sun.
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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!"
That’s just cause he has no friends, so he assumes you don’t either.
He's half-right.
Guys a fuckin' dweeb
He thinks that based on the few years of bots people already talking to on his platforms. Wait for the announcement and see his creepy smile on stage while he says “you already been doing it and that’s ok”. Just. Like. Everything. Else.
Thanks, Cinco!
I'd love to see the source for this "3 friends" statistic, that sounds like a mountain of bullshit.
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.
A platform with so many people and that knows so much about them, if they really wanted to slap AI on it why not an AI matchmaker for making friends?
Want to make it profitable? Sell activities through it. "Meet a potential friend and go bowling, click to buy your ticket". While FB siphon off a bit of profit on the ticket sales.
I'm pretty sure that's called facebook. Have you ever added suggested contacts?. "Here are some people you might know"
That is people you might already know, not people you might like to get to know
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He's right, and none of my friends even post to Facebook anymore (neither do I).
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