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Mark Zuckerberg Thinks You Don't Have Enough Friends and His Chatbots Are the Answer

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨avidamoeba@lemmy.ca⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.world⁩

https://www.404media.co/mark-zuckerberg-ai-chatbot-friends-interview-podcast/

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  • hperrin@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That’s just cause he has no friends, so he assumes you don’t either.

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  • njordomir@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    When Zuck builds his inevitable broligarch dick rocket, he should try to land it on the sun.

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  • boonhet@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    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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    • Coreidan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Trading youth for slaving away for capitalism is lame tho.

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

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      • boonhet@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Wake me up when there’s a system out there where I don’t need money to buy a home or go on vacation somewhere warm when it’s -30 outside. Unfortunately I don’t have a trust fund, so for now it’s work rather than drinking every day and tons of extremely shallow friendships. To be clear, I’m not saying I don’t have friends, I’m just saying I no longer have hundreds of people on Facebook I could just randomly message “what’s up” to without it being considered weird. Now it’s down to maybe 10-20 people who would help me hide a body if I called them at 3 AM.

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  • 2xsaiko@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I don’t know Mark, I might not, but at least I have good friends. Can you say the same for yourself?

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  • Formfiller@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The enshitification of everything continues

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  • Ilixtze@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    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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  • nokturne213@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I would rather talk with the guards in Whitehokd than your chatbot, zuck.

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    • brsrklf@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      My cousin’s out fighting dragons, and what do I get? Chat duty.

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    • CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That is one of the sickest burns I’ve read in a while.

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  • MyOpinion@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    We don’t want to chat with you Zuck.

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  • slaacaa@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Image

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  • veeesix@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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    • Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      YES. OF COURSE.

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  • A_norny_mousse@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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  • seven_phone@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    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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  • MagicShel@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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    • Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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      • Cocodapuf@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I’m pretty sure that’s called facebook. Have you ever added suggested contacts?

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      • lonesomeCat@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Sounds too good for this enshittified dystopia

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  • Lembot_0002@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I don’t think this guy understands the concept of a friend. “Friend” isn’t just a speaking machine. Friendship is mostly about some deeds. In many cases even useful deeds, not just fun messing around.

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  • stoy@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I have very few friends, but chatbots are not the answer.

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  • Glitterkoe@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Detached

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  • empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Bit of projection there, Mr. Suck.

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    • NoForwardslashS@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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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  • mr47born@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
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    • A_norny_mousse@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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    • antisocialite@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      They’re going to live to see some incomprehensible things.

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      • skribe@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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      • mr47born@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
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  • reddig33@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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    • zephorah@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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      • dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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    • avidamoeba@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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      • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        It’s the system that forces most dudes to keep coming up with new ways to make ever higher profit. If they don’t, they open the door to competition that would.

        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.

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      • dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Does he really need to do that though? Isn’t he the majority shareholder and he can essentially do what he wants?

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      • MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        It’s the dude. He fucking built the system.

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      • LucasWaffyWaf@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        When ya put it like that, it makes capitalism sound kinda like Roko’s Basilisk.

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      • MagicShel@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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    • antisocialite@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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  • avidamoeba@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    1. The system makes people poorer in money and time
    2. People can’t afford to make and keep as many friends
    3. The system gives people artificial friends that cost less
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    • renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
      1. Artificial friends eat man, woman inherits the earth.
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    • antisocialite@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      And to gather marketing Intel on the victim, I mean customer.

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      • Death_Equity@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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      • avidamoeba@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Then use that to sell them products and adjust their worldview in profitable ways.

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