Comment on Meta is shutting down VR social platform Horizon Worlds in further pivot away from the metaverse

• kat_angstrom@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It was “Meta”, but now they’re going all-in on AI, so they’ll probably want to go “MetAI” except that it’s lame and so are all the other various portmanteaus, so they’ll pivot to something inexplicable and wild like “Everything” or “AllAI”

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• breezeblock@lemmy.ca ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  AI

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• MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’m going to guess they’ll keep it and justify it as “metadata”. Like the metadata of it’s users that it sells

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• jaennaet@sopuli.xyz ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Well, by induction since the last hype was the “metaverse” and they rebranded to Meta, so because now the hype is “AI” they’ll rebrand to A

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  • brsrklf@jlai.lu ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Since there is still nothing actually worth calling “metaverse” as the sci-fi concept it was promised to be, they might go for something around AGI.

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    • jaennaet@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I really could see Zuck going for some AGI bullshit

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      • brsrklf@jlai.lu ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Oh great, because billionaires shitting on Tolkien wasn’t enough.

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• klu9@piefed.social ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Nothing But Bots ™️

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• XLE@piefed.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Molt

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• JoMiran@lemmy.ml ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  METAI

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• Rekall_Incorporated@piefed.social ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Dead Internet Company

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