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.
- oldwoodenship@lemmus.orgEnglish4 hours
I love how he paid a consultant a lot of money to adopt the image of a giant fuckboy.
- lmagitem@lemmy.zipEnglish6 hours
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.
1 hourdata 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.
- chilldrivenspade@lemmy.worldEnglish8 hours
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
- ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.netEnglish3 hours
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.worldEnglish2 hours
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.
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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.worksEnglish6 hours
Craigslist is still fantastic and hasn’t changed for like 30 years.
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I know buuut it has way less users than it did 10 years ago which means less eye balls looking at your stuff….
- Duamerthrax@lemmy.worldEnglish8 hours
Zuckerberg: People just submitted it.
Zuckerberg: I don’t know why.
Zuckerberg: They “trust me”.
Zuckerberg: Dumb fucks.
- Nofearfrontier@lemmy.worldEnglish9 hours
Whoever stayed at meta this far deserves everything coming at them from this lizard
Ah, the good ole’ “the ends justify the means” school of immorality!
- hperrin@lemmy.caEnglish21 hours
Ethics doesn’t matter. Morality doesn’t matter. The only thing that matters is profit.
- Airfried@piefed.socialEnglish21 hours
It seems to me not even profits matter to them. Just control and power.
Yup. Money is important only in that it leads to control and power.
- AreaKode@riskeratspizza.comEnglish21 hours
Or “Capital”. You’ve just discovered the fatal flaw in capitalism: when money matters more than people, money will always win.
- hperrin@lemmy.caEnglish21 hours
I discovered that decades ago. I’ve just been screaming into the void ever since.
- AreaKode@riskeratspizza.comEnglish21 hours
I hear you. We live in the age of information. I pine for a period of time when people can find intelligence.
- 23 hours
“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.”
“We all have our parts to play in the machinery. The parts you are playing is that of cogs, and my part is owning them and make them do what I want. GO TEAM!”
- [object Object]@lemmy.caEnglish21 hours
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”.
I’m just a fucking idiot
I doubt that he’s an idiot, if you’re using technical ability as the metric here (i.e. talking about Meta’s engineers). He’s certainly written code himself.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Zuckerberg
The New Yorker noted that by the time Zuckerberg began classes at Harvard in 2002, he had already achieved a “reputation as a programming prodigy”.[7] He studied psychology and computer science,[14] resided in Kirkland House,[15] and belonged to Alpha Epsilon Pi.[7] In his second year, he wrote a program that he called CourseMatch, which allowed users to make class selection decisions based on the choices of other students and help them form study groups.[16] Later, he created a different program he initially called Facemash that let students select the best-looking person from a choice of photos.
- hperrin@lemmy.caEnglish21 hours
I’ve read the code he’s written. (I used to work at Facebook.) He’s an idiot.
He also hasn’t written any code since like 2008, and that shit atrophies.
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Beyond this, even if he was a skilled coder at one point, he’s not the name on all the major AI research papers out there. Some of those people work for him and he plans to capture their keystrokes etc as well.
He is stealing the knowledge of the people he has hired to build it to use for hismelf.
- tempest@lemmy.caEnglish18 hours
People are fickle and difficult to control. If you can extract the knowledge from the meat sack so much the better.
- magnue@lemmy.worldEnglish15 hours
Won’t learn shit from meta employees. Biggest bunch of useless grifters I’ve ever met.
- 20 hours
And I defend the idea that Zuckerberg should be throw into a slow moving industrial grinder.
- NottaLottaOcelot@lemmy.caEnglish7 hours
Isn’t he? There was an entire Hollywood movie in 2010 that grossed $224M about what an abhorrent person he is, and yet he’s still more successful than ever.
The world has shown that it may not love that he’s a shitty person, but it’s too apathetic to stop using his products and lining his pockets
- 20 hours
He won the race to the bottom before he even built/stole Facebook.
