Despite having almost nothing to show from his enormous spending on AI, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is doubling down.
    • oh_@lemmy.worldEnglish
      114·
      2 months ago

      Exactly. Zuck stole the original idea to Facebook. Then bought a ton of companies after that for innovation. He has no good ideas of his own, when he does think of stuff, they are wild big company pivots that fail.

    • Iusedtobeanalien@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      I have to admit, I did wonder what his vr would look like and then he showed off something that looked like an early alpha release of a cheap second life clone in a giant global presentation, hilariously funny.

  • apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.worldEnglish
    55·
    2 months ago

    His is such a bad company but so poorly run by its dictator. He can’t be ousted as he holds majority shares. It’d be funny as hell if it wasn’t facilitating the progression of the end of our world. Dumping billions that could be used to feed and support people in need. Instead we got the metaverse and datacenters on every corner.

    • kestrel7_7@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      2 months ago

      Right? Imagine if all of the money spent “building out” the metaverse had been invested in improving infrastructure in real life…

  • Almacca@aussie.zoneEnglish
    39·
    2 months ago

    Never interrupt your enemy while he’s making a mistake.

    Keep it up, Mark. You’re doing great.

  • late_pessimistic@slrpnk.netEnglish
    38·
    2 months ago

    Becoming a billionaire really does seem to get to people’s heads, the younger the billionaire the worse.

    Zuck is being completely reckless, burning through hundreds of billions of dollars hopping on every futuristic idea, and doesn’t listen to anyone’s fair criticism anymore.

    He probably even thinks he is some great visionary and everyone else is holding him back, and that’s why they work for him, not the opposite.

    In a sane socioeconomic system we wouldn’t people get this rich and powerful for their own good, especially young people.

  • flop_leash_973@lemmy.worldEnglish
    35·
    2 months ago

    Outside of Facebook what has he been responsible for that didn’t blow up in his face? The only other things Meta has that aren’t thus far miserable failures are Instagram and Whatsapp, both of which they bought.

    • merc@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      11·
      2 months ago

      And Google built a search engine. Everything else they’ve tried to build has failed, other than maybe Gmail which was just a Yahoo Mail / Hotmail clone. Everything else that has been successful has been an acquisition: Maps (Keyhole), YouTube, Android, Google Photos (Picasa), Doubleclick…

      We really need robust antitrust. How many of these acquisitions would be thriving companies in their own right, competing with the big tech giants if the tech giants hadn’t been able to absorb them.

      Google+ is an example of what happens when companies have to compete instead of acquiring other companies. Google poured billions into it and it flopped completely.

      • kestrel7_7@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 months ago

        IMO it’s almost worse than if G+ flopped completely. Google+ was actually awesome for the specific world of smalltime pen and paper RPGs. But of course, that one creative community of people designing & publishing cool stuff wasn’t enough to justify its cost, or challenge Facebook for supremacy, so they pulled the plug even though plenty of people were still using it. Just a waste.

        • merc@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          1·
          2 months ago

          If it takes multiple billions of dollars to create a product that is useful for a niche group of pen and paper RPG players, that product is probably not going to succeed.

          But, also, if Facebook didn’t have such an unassailable monopoly on social networking, small, focused social networks that targeted a niche group of people might have a chance of surviving.

  • WanderWisley@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17·
    2 months ago

    If you are still actively using Facebook you are either over 40 or live in a rural area of the country. As an example, I live in a small rural town of less than 4000 people everybody still uses Facebook and the amount of AI that they are liking sharing commenting on is absurd.

  • Cellari@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    2 months ago

    For those that want to read about the fault of human psyche:

    https://technophilosoph.com/en/2024/06/09/why-we-trust-ai-despite-the-gell-mann-amnesia-effect/

    The popular author Michael Crichton named this effect after his physicist friend Murray Gell-Mann, who had noticed how newspaper readers, for example, after studying an erroneous article on a subject in which they themselves are very knowledgeable, just shake their heads and find the reporting on it distorted, erroneous and lacking in understanding. However, if they then turn the page and read an article on another topic in which they themselves have little knowledge, they trust the information in this article almost without reservation.

  • hypno@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    12·
    2 months ago

    I hope that the whole facebook downfall and the inevitable enshitification of other facebook servies like instagram und whatsapp only accelerates the adoption of better alternatives, we’ll see if people are actually willing to leave whatsapp if its gotten bad enough

      • hypno@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        3·
        2 months ago

        I actually don’t mind this concept of a „town square“, but I think that it doesn’t work with so many people all just shouting into the void. The best form of social media seems to be this Reddit/lemmy forum style with categoriesed conversations in sub spaces

  • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    2 months ago

    He probably should have stuck with the Metaverse, I’m sure it would have worked eventually. I mean maybe, who knows…

    • raspirate@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      2 months ago

      There was a brief period of time where they were actually on the “right” track IMO. You’d pop the headset on, call your friend(s), and when they answered, immediately your VR avatars would be standing in the same virtual space or in your room if you’re using passthrough mode, and you could “look at” and speak to each other in a way that felt extremely natural. You’d start gesturing and naturally moving your body as you speak in the same way you would in a face-to-face chat. The same way you can be at a Halloween party and after a few minutes, you’re having a completely normal conversation with Abe Lincoln or a frog or whatever. Even though the avatars weren’t perfect, there were times that three of us just stood around for 30-45 minutes just chatting and catching up before anyone suggested playing an actual game.

      To me, the main selling point of VR is that it’s the best way to feel present with someone who isn’t physically there. It’s better than a video call or a traditional online game. It’s really the closest thing to just “hanging out” with someone who’s somewhere else.

      Of course, it only worked that way for a month or two before they made it so that you couldn’t gather like that unless you were inside the horizon worlds app, which everyone always hated. Typical dark pattern enshittification as usual.

      This is all beside the fact that it’s Zuck, Facebook, and all the other things everyone hates, but much like the perv glasses seem to be catching on, I think Zuck’s metaverse could have been somewhat popular if they hadn’t done… basically everything they’ve done to it.