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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." π
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
What was the last product they created themselves and not bought, that was successful and profitable?
Facebook?
Kinda stole that idea actually.
lol
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
Heβs the loser of the tech bros. Heβs 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
Look Iβve got to throw timing in there, whether by luck or design.
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
hes the only AI manifested as a android.
So, not just AI slop, but expensive, but even worse slop?
Artificial Simply Stupid - slop
Meta is so overvalued it's insane
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"
Fuck what does that make us?
Gullible
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.
An AI trained on Facebook comments would be stupider than an AI trained on nothing at all
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...
Grok Vs Meta fighting for the title of artificial stupidity
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.
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.
So his record is 1 for 3.
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 heβs especially skilled, smart or talented.
Yeah so the training data is only one part of it (possibly the easiest since you can just buy it). Itβs the other components of model training thatβs the real secret sauce. And without users it becomes harder and harder to get the feedback to continue training new models.
Thatβs why all the companies were rushing to get a product out.
