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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.
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
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"
Surprise, some Aspy Sociopathic Oligarch who has been out of touch with humanity since birth has no idea what actual humans want, and are willing to pay for.
Same thing with Musk lol failure after failure after failure but there are still clowns on the internet who call him a visionary.
Dude will crash his rockets and people say the company is successful. It’s bananas.
but the falcon 9 is objectively the most successful/flown rocket in history and it's not even close
The power of compound interest means that money can only make more money once it reaches a certain threshold. Whatever these guys were at twenty they're certainly not anymore, but they will never feel the pinch. They can only fail upwards from this point on.
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
I can't help but to feel like this is happening with all AI. Social media comments from Facebook, Reddit, X etc are low effort and flushed out with bots.
This was predicted early on with LLMs that the information would eventually go into a feedback loop where the AI feeds off other AI hallucinations and they all go downhill fast.
Imagine if LLMs remained mostly an academic interest for just a few years longer than it did before going commercial. How many issues could've been worked out by researchers and engineers with an eye towards scientific advancement rather than monetization?
Imagine if AI models were trained exclusively on peer-reviewed datasets, each one specialized in a single discipline, and maybe others specialized in interdisciplinary studies.
They might not be able to synthesize new ideas due to their fundamental architecture, but they could at least streamline certain tasks like literature reviews and metadata collation. They could provide sanity checks before submitting for review. Machine Learning models could even perform more complex data analysis tasks than LLMs would be capable of.
But no, instead we have Artificial Idiocy injected into everything, deepfakes and disinformation proliferating, and people going crazy from using chatbots to replace therapy...
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.
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.
I made this exact point on Reddit before and people were pissed
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
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
Meta is so overvalued it's insane
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
So his record is 1 for 3.
Yeah but look how much evil he's achieved with that 1. Respect.
Agreed. I say it with a condescending tone. From I’ve learned better self tolerance towards dopamine divulges.
Zuc specifically seems to be floundering more than the others, not that it matters obviously but I think it really shows he hit a jackpot not that he’s especially skilled, smart or talented.
I recall a brief flash almost a year ago where Meta released some kind of LLM framework open source and it seemed like it was taking off in the circles of developers I know. But then I never heard about it again. Similar flash in the pan about DeepSeek.
Actually Deepseek's having a resurgence because of their Engram module which is truly novel.
It's not so much that Deepseek is a flash in the pan but more like they do some cool new thing and everyone copies their work while they recede back into their research.
How much will this cost? Anything to waste money on besides paying workers or taxes. What, rockets ain't good enough for you?
he knows he's not smart enough for rockets. he couldn't even run an airliner. if he did, it'd be worse than spirit.
What was the last product they created themselves and not bought, that was successful and profitable?
Facebook?
Kinda stole that idea actually.
Yeah so the training data is only one part of it (possibly the easiest since you can just buy it). It’s the other components of model training that’s the real secret sauce. And without users it becomes harder and harder to get the feedback to continue training new models.
That’s why all the companies were rushing to get a product out.
lol
