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Mark Zuckerberg Wants to Feed You More AI Slop

by taylorbuley on 11/14/24, 5:54 PM with 19 comments

  • by barbazoo on 11/14/24, 6:22 PM

  • by araes on 11/14/24, 6:19 PM

    I don't really like Zuck all that much, he's made all kinds of horrifying comments over the years, yet this article confuses me. Also, this article itself seems like LLM content being produced in the high level fight among 1000 millionaires.

    Bloomberg writes like its better to keep all the AI content in walled gardens that only the wealthy or elite can access in a downhill dump on the unaware.

    How is it better to sell access than to just make it available to everybody?

  • by josefritzishere on 11/14/24, 7:01 PM

    I find no value in video fakes of people playing tennis with polar bear cubs. Is there any forseeable tipping point with where fb fundamentally ceases to be relevant to its users? Zuckerberg is chasing the AI dragon as if disposable content and meaninglessness has some kind of dadaist appeal.

    Can he make money selling real ads with fake content to fake users? Is that the future?

  • by gnu8 on 11/14/24, 6:27 PM

    No one has a right to be wealthy. Mark Zuckerberg and all of these other people are so narcissistic that not only do they believe they are entitled to their wealth, but they also have an insane urge to take even more from people while providing even less. The quality of information and interaction on Meta’s web sites is lower than ever, and their response is to machine-produce an increasing quantity of even lower quality sludge rather than shut down the company and disappear.

    What we need is a mechanism to terminate these entities, in the same way that chemotherapy eliminates fast-dividing cancer cells that have lost their ability to self-terminate.

  • by PreInternet01 on 11/14/24, 6:19 PM

    "People just submitted it. I don't know why. They 'trust me'. Dumb fucks"

  • by headcanon on 11/14/24, 6:41 PM

    Horrible take, typical FUD against open source. Of all the things to criticize Meta/Facebook/Zuck for, open-sourcing LLMs should be at the bottom of the list. All of the examples cited (halloween prank, general AI slop) could have been done with any set of open or closed source tools, and are ultimately inevitable problems to solve. Walled gardens just make the problem worse.

    Meanwhile, I'll be using local versions of Ollama and Qwen to experiment with my own agentic workflows and help me organize my life better.