- The system makes people poorer in money and time
- People can’t afford to make and keep as many friends
- The system gives people artificial friends that cost less
Mark Zuckerberg Thinks You Don't Have Enough Friends and His Chatbots Are the Answer
Submitted 3 weeks ago by avidamoeba@lemmy.ca to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.404media.co/mark-zuckerberg-ai-chatbot-friends-interview-podcast/
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avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
antisocialite@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
And to gather marketing Intel on the victim, I mean customer.
avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Then use that to sell them products and adjust their worldview in profitable ways.
Death_Equity@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
They will take the marketing data, sell the data, and then offer a service to guide users to use a product with the bots.
User: I am so busy and stressed out rn
Bot: Aw, I’m so sorry. When I am stressed I like to play Candy Crush Saga 2 and eat Doritos’ new spicy matcha flavor, available at most retail locations.
renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.net 3 weeks ago
- Artificial friends eat man, woman inherits the earth.
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
F me…
Does no one see the propaganda potential for this? Yeah, let’s give one guy influential control of the psyche of hundreds of millions.
avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
I think most of here see it. But then again we already understand enough to move away from corporate social.
toastmeister@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
I run my own anti-wef Bot. It alerts me of incoming digital currencies.
geography082@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Impressive how a single guy pathology shaped an entire generation and the internet
njordomir@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
When Zuck builds his inevitable broligarch dick rocket, he should try to land it on the sun.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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.
uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Now that the US has actual concentration camps and actual Nacht und Nebel disappearances, not to mention arrests of judges and political enemies, we have a lot of folk who have been promoted from silent bystander to collaborator or complicit in the imminent holocaust.
The next step for the regime is to decide imprisonment of the undesirables is too expensive and we should proceed to evacuation (id est, mass execution).
The complicit category includes every elected or appointed official that continues to cooperate with the current government without obstructing procedure until the facilities are closed and prisoners set free, including those on foreign soil. Democrats included.
lobut@lemmy.ca 3 weeks 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!”
ihatefascist@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
How people still use meta products is beyond me
hector@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Whatsapp for my family group, Instagram rarely to keep with my friends (I’m gen z)
Ledericas@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
older people, and some right wingers do.
hperrin@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
That’s just cause he has no friends, so he assumes you don’t either.
ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks 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.”
poopkins@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Compelling sales pitch for Fleshlight.
ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks 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.
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Of course he would say that, Chatbots are the only friends he has.
Ledericas@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
android talking to chatbots, he is among friends.
slaacaa@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Bit of projection there, Mr. Suck.
NoForwardslashS@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks 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.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
In order to be my friend, I’m going to have to require verification that you’re a human. Please tell me the exact GPS coordinates of all the traffic lights on Earth.
doodledup@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Not even opening that. I’m tired of these clickbait and hatebait articles.
Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Is that so? Will the chatbots help me pack a van when I need to move? Will they stand next to me at my wedding? I’m thrilled to hear that bots can finally replace friends! (Something the people have been clamoring for)
Demdaru@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
With amount of walker bots prototypes… Soon.
eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
I’m wondering whether this is a privileged/feels like deserves privilege white guy thing.
Down here with the queerdos and minorities, I’m seeing people engage more fully with each other, be more willing to take on friends and lovers, in the last few months.
Some are getting caught by chat bots, yes, but a lot of people are out there trying to grab human connection while we still can.
I certainly feel like the “I’m the übermensch and revel in cruelty, empathy is a weakness” mentality that the straight basic wypipo have adopted will not only discourage other people from wanting to be their friend, but also discourages themselves from seeking friendship, because they see it as a weakness.
nossaquesapao@lemmy.eco.br 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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.
fmtx@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
I mean he’s not wrong about the former, but he can fuck off about the latter.
kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Making fun of Zuck and his chatbots is a good way to bond with friends.
stoy@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
I have very few friends, but chatbots are not the answer.
PeteZa@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
I could live out the remainder of my life without using a Zuckerberg product and be totally fine with that.
RottenState@feddit.dk 3 weeks ago
You would in fact be better off.
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
No Facebook, Whatsapp, Instagram, Occulus Rift. And of course whatever else they will buy up in the future.
nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
I would rather talk with the guards in Whitehokd than your chatbot, zuck.
brsrklf@jlai.lu 3 weeks ago
My cousin’s out fighting dragons, and what do I get? Chat duty.
CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
That is one of the sickest burns I’ve read in a while.
veeesix@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Who needs friends when we have each other, amirite? Right guys? …guys?
Valmond@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
YES. OF COURSE.
MagicShel@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
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.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
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.
Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’m pretty sure that’s called facebook. Have you ever added suggested contacts?
lonesomeCat@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Sounds too good for this enshittified dystopia
mr47born@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
[deleted]antisocialite@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
They’re going to live to see some incomprehensible things.
skribe@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
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.
A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
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.
aesthelete@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Fuck you four eyes
A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
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.
Cocopanda@futurology.today 2 weeks ago
This dude will lose his money. Facebook and meta will collapse under the weight of fake content.
glibg@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Guys a fuckin’ dweeb
reddig33@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Dude could have just let Facebook be Facebook and been successful. Instead he has all these weird, unnecessary ideas about how to manipulate people.
avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Thing it’s not the dude. It’s the system that forces most dudes to come up with newer ways to grow and make 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 hostile or peacefully takeover the OG dude.
MagicShel@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Why do you act like this is a bad thing? You just described how it’s supposed to work.
Look at Tom from MySpace. He had it all. Got overtaken by the competition. Now he just travels the world, takes pictures, and does whatever the fuck he wants.
Zuck is never going to want for a damn thing for the rest of his life. The fact that he hasn’t just fucked off to paradise is a Zuck problem.
LucasWaffyWaf@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
When ya put it like that, it makes capitalism sound kinda like Roko’s Basilisk.
dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
Does he really need to do that though? Isn’t he the majority shareholder and he can essentially do what he wants?
MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
It’s the dude. He fucking built the system.
Ulrich@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
No, they can continue to make the same profit and still not open the door for competition. The need for ever-higher profits is driven by investors.
zephorah@lemm.ee 3 weeks 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.
dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
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 right the code.
They settled a lawsuit for a lot of money, at the time.
antisocialite@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
Same with all of these tech bros. The dude from Reddit said he’s anticipating the destruction of the country because he thinks only he’s ordained to rule over what’s left. Him and his accelerationist pal Musky.