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- enshitification@slrpnk.net
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg appears so determined to win the AI race that he is willing to sacrifice some employee privacy to make it happen.
In a leaked audio recording published by the worker advocacy group More Perfect Union, Zuckerberg purportedly answered an employee’s question about “device monitoring” with a six-minute monologue in which he said Meta employees are very smart and to win the most competitive technology race in history, he would need to collect their keystrokes, mouse clicks, and screenshots to make its own AI measure up to its rivals.
“We are using this to feed a very large amount of content into the AI model, so that way it can learn how smart people use computers to accomplish tasks. I think that this is going to be a very big advantage if we can do it,” Zuckerberg purportedly said during an April 30 meeting in which an employee asked about the “top of mind” issue.
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I love how he paid a consultant a lot of money to adopt the image of a giant fuckboy.
What’s crazy is that he could just have asked for volunteers and add a pay raise alongside agreement in participating in that crap and I’m sure half the company would be doing it willingly. Instead he just pissed off everyone and will likely get data poisoning from maliciously compliant employees, and lose highly skilled employees.
if i could insta-kill any company today….might not be THE best choice, but it would definitely be the most satisfying to kill meta
Google. You can easily avoid Meta. You don’t have to de-metify phones, you don’t have to use Meta’s browser. It’s really hard (and getting harder) to avoid Google. Meta is annoying, Google is cancer.
Meta provides zero value to the world anymore. It would be a net positive to be rid of it. Maybe I could go back to using Craigslist again instead of having to use Facebook to sell my used shit….
Craigslist is still fantastic and hasn’t changed for like 30 years.
I know buuut it has way less users than it did 10 years ago which means less eye balls looking at your stuff….
I would of course, go for Palantir.
Since corporations are ppl Death note would be good path.
Zuckerberg: People just submitted it.
Zuckerberg: I don’t know why.
Zuckerberg: They “trust me”.
Zuckerberg: Dumb fucks.
lol he will never win
Zuck should have his head put on a skewer.
Whoever stayed at meta this far deserves everything coming at them from this lizard
Ah, the good ole’ “the ends justify the means” school of immorality!
Won’t learn shit from meta employees. Biggest bunch of useless grifters I’ve ever met.
Ethics doesn’t matter. Morality doesn’t matter. The only thing that matters is profit.
“Every dollar spent is a vote cast”
It seems to me not even profits matter to them. Just control and power.
Yup. Money is important only in that it leads to control and power.
LINE GO UP!
Or “Capital”. You’ve just discovered the fatal flaw in capitalism: when money matters more than people, money will always win.
I discovered that decades ago. I’ve just been screaming into the void ever since.
I hear you. We live in the age of information. I pine for a period of time when people can find intelligence.
for Zuck specifically, it feels like ego.
More like fooling the investors that AI will bring profit
“I know you guys are the smart people, so I’m going to harvest all your data because I’m just a fucking idiot who got lucky on harvesting data and have no issues exploiting every single one of you.”
“We all have our parts to play in the machinery. The parts you are playing is that of cogs, and my part is owning them and make them do what I want. GO TEAM!”
To be fair he’s also been trying to make an AI version of himself.
The idea is a less atrocious if you don’t have to worry about any of your needs being met. But even then, there’s a huge difference between “I recorded myself doing X” and “we’re going to watch everything you say or do and hopefully put you out of a job with it”.
I’m just a fucking idiot
I doubt that he’s an idiot, if you’re using technical ability as the metric here (i.e. talking about Meta’s engineers). He’s certainly written code himself.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Zuckerberg
The New Yorker noted that by the time Zuckerberg began classes at Harvard in 2002, he had already achieved a “reputation as a programming prodigy”.[7] He studied psychology and computer science,[14] resided in Kirkland House,[15] and belonged to Alpha Epsilon Pi.[7] In his second year, he wrote a program that he called CourseMatch, which allowed users to make class selection decisions based on the choices of other students and help them form study groups.[16] Later, he created a different program he initially called Facemash that let students select the best-looking person from a choice of photos.
I’ve read the code he’s written. (I used to work at Facebook.) He’s an idiot.
He also hasn’t written any code since like 2008, and that shit atrophies.
Beyond this, even if he was a skilled coder at one point, he’s not the name on all the major AI research papers out there. Some of those people work for him and he plans to capture their keystrokes etc as well.
He is stealing the knowledge of the people he has hired to build it to use for hismelf.
People are fickle and difficult to control. If you can extract the knowledge from the meat sack so much the better.
Guillotines. Invest now before it’s too late!
And I defend the idea that Zuckerberg should be throw into a slow moving industrial grinder.
Is that Zuck or the A.I. Zuck created by Zuck so that Zuck won’t have to Zuck zo much ?
