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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg appears so determined to win the AI race that he is willing to sacrifice some employee privacy to make it happen.

In a leaked audio recording published by the worker advocacy group More Perfect Union, Zuckerberg purportedly answered an employee's question about "device monitoring" with a six-minute monologue in which he said Meta employees are very smart and to win the most competitive technology race in history, he would need to collect their keystrokes, mouse clicks, and screenshots to make its own AI measure up to its rivals.

“We are using this to feed a very large amount of content into the AI model, so that way it can learn how smart people use computers to accomplish tasks. I think that this is going to be a very big advantage if we can do it,” Zuckerberg purportedly said during an April 30 meeting in which an employee asked about the "top of mind" issue.

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[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 109 points 1 week ago (6 children)

"I know you guys are the smart people, so I'm going to harvest all your data because I'm just a fucking idiot who got lucky on harvesting data and have no issues exploiting every single one of you."

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 20 points 1 week ago

To be fair he’s also been trying to make an AI version of himself.

The idea is a less atrocious if you don’t have to worry about any of your needs being met. But even then, there’s a huge difference between “I recorded myself doing X” and “we’re going to watch everything you say or do and hopefully put you out of a job with it”.

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[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 61 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Ethics doesn’t matter. Morality doesn’t matter. The only thing that matters is profit.

[–] Airfried@piefed.social 36 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It seems to me not even profits matter to them. Just control and power.

[–] kescusay@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

Yup. Money is important only in that it leads to control and power.

[–] areakode@riskeratspizza.com 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Or "Capital". You've just discovered the fatal flaw in capitalism: when money matters more than people, money will always win.

[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I discovered that decades ago. I’ve just been screaming into the void ever since.

[–] areakode@riskeratspizza.com 9 points 1 week ago

I hear you. We live in the age of information. I pine for a period of time when people can find intelligence.

[–] osanna@lemmy.vg 5 points 1 week ago

LINE GO UP!

[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 3 points 1 week ago

"Every dollar spent is a vote cast"

[–] terabyterex@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

for Zuck specifically, it feels like ego.

[–] REDACTED@infosec.pub 2 points 1 week ago

More like fooling the investors that AI will bring profit

[–] lmagitem@lemmy.zip 33 points 1 week ago (2 children)

What's crazy is that he could just have asked for volunteers and add a pay raise alongside agreement in participating in that crap and I'm sure half the company would be doing it willingly. Instead he just pissed off everyone and will likely get data poisoning from maliciously compliant employees, and lose highly skilled employees.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

data poisoning from maliciously compliant employees

Even if everyone cooperated faithfully and diligently fully in on the plan of being rendered redundant in a few years, what do they even have?

Just the generic motions of work. As soon as your business model shifts, or some interface changes, or you run into a problem that you haven't seen before...

They're cannibalizing themselves. That's the only way you can describe it. An organization that's hollowing itself out with management aware it won't last (or delusional enough to believe reality will never catch up with them).

If they're doing this with their infrastructure, how much does anyone want to bet they're playing fast and loose with their budgets and accounting as well?

This all screams Enron/Worldcomm waiting to happen.

There's a reason we abandoned monarchy. Zuck is effectively the king of meta. Literally. The founding corporate structure is designed so he literally can never be fired. And if you give anyone absolute unaccountable power, it's only a matter of time until they drive things right off a cliff.

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[–] chilldrivenspade@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago (4 children)

if i could insta-kill any company today….might not be THE best choice, but it would definitely be the most satisfying to kill meta

[–] PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Meta provides zero value to the world anymore. It would be a net positive to be rid of it. Maybe I could go back to using Craigslist again instead of having to use Facebook to sell my used shit….

[–] Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Craigslist is still fantastic and hasn't changed for like 30 years.

I know buuut it has way less users than it did 10 years ago which means less eye balls looking at your stuff….

[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Google. You can easily avoid Meta. You don't have to de-metify phones, you don't have to use Meta's browser. It's really hard (and getting harder) to avoid Google. Meta is annoying, Google is cancer.

[–] calcopiritus@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Disagree. You can easily degooglify for the most part. Except android. But you won't get your friends and family to contact you via anything other than Whatsapp (except in america).

And teens without Instagram just don't exist socially. Maybe with TikTok now. But not like TikTok is any better.

[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 2 points 1 week ago

You're right, I forgot about the cancer WhatsApp is. Degoogling phones is not that easy but it's definitely doable for someone with basic technical skills. Avoiding WhatsApp is basically impossible.

[–] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 9 points 1 week ago

I would of course, go for Palantir.

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[–] trashboat@piefed.social 19 points 1 week ago (2 children)

You’re not winning the race, Mark

[–] scytale@piefed.zip 16 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The race to the bottom perhaps.

[–] green_goglin@thelemmy.club 4 points 1 week ago

[mEtAvErSe noises intensify]

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

He won the race to the bottom before he even built/stole Facebook.

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[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago

Zuckerberg: People just submitted it.

Zuckerberg: I don't know why.

Zuckerberg: They "trust me".

Zuckerberg: Dumb fucks.

[–] HotsauceHurricane@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago
[–] Meat_Of_Nan@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago

And I defend the idea that Zuckerberg should be throw into a slow moving industrial grinder.

[–] Bloefz@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg appears so determined to win the AI race that he is willing to sacrifice some employee privacy to make it happen.

"Some of you will die but that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make"

[–] oldwoodenship@lemmus.org 11 points 1 week ago

I love how he paid a consultant a lot of money to adopt the image of a giant fuckboy.

[–] RustyShackleford@piefed.social 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] osanna@lemmy.vg 3 points 1 week ago

they trust me, the dumb fucks

[–] bigbangdangler@reddthat.com 9 points 1 week ago

Guillotines. Invest now before it's too late!

[–] nialv7@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

meta employees.. i am begging you. leave, now. at least form a union or something.

[–] magnue@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

Won't learn shit from meta employees. Biggest bunch of useless grifters I've ever met.

[–] vane@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

He said that the biggest problem is that they have leaks about what they want to do with AI. https://odysee.com/DYiMJ1JP_az:b44480746b23cb260ba4e23261e1e3e5dfee6f20

[–] SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

In the US, private employment == indentured servitude.

[–] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 5 points 1 week ago

Is that Zuck or the A.I. Zuck created by Zuck so that Zuck won't have to Zuck zo much ?

[–] Nofearfrontier@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Whoever stayed at meta this far deserves everything coming at them from this lizard

[–] droniecarp@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago

Zuck should have his head put on a skewer.

[–] tomiant@piefed.social 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Ah, the good ole' "the ends justify the means" school of immorality!

[–] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 week ago

Fuck Zuck, the cuck that sucks.

[–] Cornpop@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

lol he will never win

[–] mecen@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago

Win AI race to replace as many humans as possible and have monopoly on solution.

Messiah is there.

[–] Hairyfishnuts@feddit.online 2 points 1 week ago

We need to signal the plumber.

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