There is a huge amount of waste in AI, this is a prime example of it. All that time, effort, compute put into this, and for what? Something that no one will use.
This older article clearly shows the situation https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/zuckerberg-firing-hundreds-ai-developers
“Meanwhile, the industry is continuing to search for ways of generating revenue to start making up for billions of dollars in losses.” 😂
Something that no one will use.
Idea: let’s force all WhatsApp and Instagram users to use it by putting unwanted buttons in the UI
You know, I’m starting to think Zuck might have been a one trick pony.
He is just a php bro that made a fancy crud website. Always was.
He’s the loser of the tech bros. He’s never actually built anything of substance.
That’s true of most of the tech bros, though. They’re all losers that haven’t built anything themselves and that have been successful despite themselves, not because of themselves, just because they have money and fail upwards
He’s got a personal obsession with creating a world full of people he can control. Can’t do it in the real one so he’s plowing the lawnmower man
I like the idea of starting a meme of “Zuckerberg is plowing the lawnmower man”. lol
Member how the metaverse was supposed to revolutionise our lives, but they just spent dozens of billions on a shitty VR sim, renamed their whole company over it, then fired tens of thousands of workers when it flopped, but still jerked zuck off for his capitalist prowess?
He’s worth hundreds of billions more today! Capitalism is a fucking clown world.
psst 98% of Metas money comes from selling marketing dorks lies and scamming the larger economy.
That’s why they’re still afloat regardless of not having a product worth a damn.
To quote Frank Reynolds: “This is America: you’re either a duper or a dupee. I’m a duper. You guys are the dupees.”
Zuckerberg does not care if his products are culturally significant, the cash keeps rolling in.
Certainly changes the meaning of “super duper”
If we punished the ceo’s who steal billions the same way we punish a homeless person that steals $20 to buy food, the world would be a much better place
Capitalism just means that your theft has to be more organized, and done by a ‘company’. Then no one gets held personally responsible, even if they were the one at the top giving all the orders.
We should start to use RICO against businesses and punish every link in the management chain that makes that theft possible. Like at least 5 years in jail+fines
Capitalism is deeply flawed, but what you’re experiencing is a failure of social media and journalism.
Everyone guffaws about Meta because everyone hates them, so bloggers write shitty vacuous click baity articles that just twist and distort everything meta does to make them look as terrible as possible. And while they’re shitty, they’re not shitty and incompetent in every single possible way or else they wouldn’t be as rich as they are.
But these vacuous articles that bend over backwards and diatort the truth to paint them as incompetent in every possible way then leaves people going “how could anyone be that stupid?”, and the reality is that they’re not that stupid, you were just misinformed by outrage journalism.
Despite the guffawing about shutting down Horizon Worlds, there’s a good chance that Meta’s reality Labs bet will still be a smart financial play in the long term. Google, Apple, Microsoft, etc have made billions by controlling the dominant OSes and Meta has far and away the strongest augment reality operating system as we head into AR glasses actually being viable from a technology standpoint.
Downvoted for sane-washing meta glasses.
I also disagree with your other takes, mainly boiling down to the insinuation that competence and intelligence is how capitalists make money in a system that’s rigged in their favor…
No, they make money because they have enough people vendor-locked that they can convince advertisers to pay them to further enshittify their platforms, and that gives investors the confidence they need to keep writing blank checks.
I don’t think the technological limitations are what are making those AR goggles get poor reception. They face a couple of non-technological hurdles that I think are going to be nearly impossible for them to overcome:
- People don’t like strangers pointing cameras in their face to the point where they may even be brought to violence about it, so using these in public settings will continue to be isolating and potentially even dangerous.
- The companies making things like this are too big to be capable of making a good product ecosystem. It has been an inescapable trend for over a decade+ now that these mega corps have stopped being able to make anything without too much monetization to be good anymore, so adoption is lukewarm, and they kill off everything new after a few years. They are surviving on things they made before that time that they have not managed to mess up all the way yet.
What was the last product they created themselves and not bought, that was successful and profitable?
Facebook?
Kinda stole that idea actually.
Failing upwards baby! At this rate he might run for Congress!
They’re all gonna start claiming they have “too good to release” versions…
Because everything they release sucks.
But if they never let anyone not financially invested even see the “good one” then no one can say it’s actually shit.
It doesn’t matter if it works, it matters if it raises stock price. So eventually we’ll see them just not release it, it could only hurt the stock price.
An AI trained on Facebook comments would be stupider than an AI trained on nothing at all
Grok Vs Meta fighting for the title of artificial stupidity
