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🗓️ 2 May 2025
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0:00.0 | Across Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp, meta platforms is racing to popularize a new class of AI-powered digital companions that Zuckerberg believes be the future of social media. |
0:08.8 | Inside meta, however, staffers across multiple departments have raised concerns that the company's rush to popularize these bots may have crossed ethical lines. |
0:16.6 | Now, again, we've read careless people, right? |
0:19.3 | Presumably anyone who raised a concern was immediately like sent, sent to the prison for the company's benefit or, like, sexually harassed out of their job, first of all. |
0:27.0 | Also, what an obvious show of contempt on the part of, you know, Mark Zuckerberg, but also everyone senior at Facebook or messa or whatever. |
0:35.4 | Like, yeah, we think that what most people really |
0:38.1 | want is imaginary friends. And we've kind of been pushing that for a long time. So I mean, |
0:42.5 | like, yeah, I was going to say like, the only saving grace of all this is like the thing that |
0:45.8 | I kind of gleaned when I read careless people was like, these guys can't actually invent |
0:50.1 | anything that works. They like buy stuff that works. You know, if there's like another |
0:54.4 | company that is like making sex spots for children and they think that is useful, then they'll |
0:58.9 | probably buy it and it will be very scary. I am sort of relieved that their track record of making |
1:03.5 | things in-house on the basis of this is what we think people want have consistently failed. And |
1:08.9 | like what's interesting is that he hasn't really learned his lesson |
1:12.2 | from any of that because like you know the whole metaverse play was like yeah even make legs |
1:16.3 | that's right was like you know the whole metaverse play was like oh like people want like an |
1:20.2 | expansive virtual like big meeting room because they love going to work and they want you know |
1:25.6 | a more enhanced version of it which like obviously fucking stupid they want, you know, a more enhanced version of it, which like, |
1:27.8 | obviously fucking stupid. |
1:29.2 | They want PlayStation home. |
1:30.7 | Well, yeah, but with no legs. |
1:33.2 | They have such a bad strategy and it's all based on just the fact that they are completely |
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