• @reddig33@lemmy.world
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    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.

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      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.

    • @zephorah@lemm.ee
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      191 month ago

      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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        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.

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    1. The system makes people poorer in money and time, and social ability
    2. People can’t afford to make and keep as many friends
    3. The system gives people artificial friends that cost less

    1. The system uses people’s artificial friends to reinforce itself
  • @brucethemoose@lemmy.world
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    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.

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      101 month ago

      I think most of here see it. But then again we already understand enough to move away from corporate social.

  • @lobut@lemmy.ca
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    181 month ago

    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!”

  • @ryedaft@sh.itjust.works
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    171 month ago

    "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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        11 month ago

        But like, in the metaverse. Powerful engines. He could go down in history as the creator of the greatest dick sucking machine ever but instead he wants to make nonexistent pen pals.

    • @NoForwardslashS@sopuli.xyz
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      61 month ago

      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.

  • @GreenKnight23@lemmy.world
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    121 month ago

    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.

    • @PeteZa@lemm.ee
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      31 month ago

      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.

  • @nossaquesapao@lemmy.eco.br
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    71 month ago

    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

  • @ellypony@lemmy.world
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    71 month ago

    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.