• NoForwardslashS@sopuli.xyz
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      2 months 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.

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    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.

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      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.

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        I’m pretty sure that’s called facebook. Have you ever added suggested contacts?. “Here are some people you might know”

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    Who needs friends when we have each other, amirite? Right guys? …guys?

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    Funny, less than an hour ago I heard Ed Zitron speculate that these uber-rich tech bros invent these things because they don’t know how to socialise, and they think everybody is like that.

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    We can put our spy specs on and update our spy site profile on our spy device and if there is anything left that is just ours we can now tell it to our spy friend.

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    From the metaverse to his new AI fueled drivel. Zuckerberg has been very busy trying to convince us to divest from the real world and submerge ourselves into his virtual worlds of delight. Up to this point his products have been pure shit. But I worry the time will come where better engineered “mirrors in our cages” will succeed where the Zuck is just flopping abount.

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        Every generation does. When my parents were born, a computer was a job title. Both my grandfathers were born before the invention of powered flight, and lived to see men walk on the moon. The only constant is continuous change.

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          Yeah, but reality is going to keep getting harder to discern from AI fakery. Can’t imagine a few decades from now.

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      I’m not! Seriously, I see kids of that age everyday at work and they’re neither better nor worse than we were; maybe even better.

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    For several reasons (including this one), I deactivated my Facebook account a month ago, but have kept Messenger to maintain contact with people. Does anyone have a good suggestion for a different app that functions like Messenger, but helps me divest from feeding Markie Mark my valuable user data?

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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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    The one and only good thing about having less friends than in my teens is that I have more time to focus on work, which makes me money (directly proportional to how much I bill my clients). That and being able to move off Facebook because my friends are on Signal and Telegram.

    Now, Zuck thinks I want fake AI friends so I could spend hours per day on Messenger again? Hell nah. I’ll go grab a beer in the pub or message one of my remaining real friends. If I dedicate my life to chatbots, I’ll soon have even fewer.

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      Trading youth for slaving away for capitalism is lame tho.

      Money can’t buy youth and when it’s gone it’s gone.