Mark Zuckerberg Cooks Up Dystopian Way to Speak to Staff

[highplainsdem]

Source: Daily Beast

Meta is building an artificial intelligence version of its billionaire founder, Mark Zuckerberg, to interact with employees on his behalf, according to the Financial Times.

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The company is prioritizing a Mark Zuckerberg AI character, three of the people said. Zuckerberg is personally involved in training and testing the animated version of himself, which is being built on his mannerisms, tone, publicly available statements, and his own thinking on company strategy—so that employees “might feel more connected to the founder through interactions with it,” one person said. The character is also being trained on images and his voice. Zuckerberg has been spending five to ten hours a week coding on AI projects and sitting in on technical reviews.

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Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/meta-is-building-an-ai-version-of-mark-zuckerberg-to-chat-with-staff/

[Walleye]

1. Seems like the ultimate narcissism to me

[cachukis]

2. Beyond dystopian.

[William Seger]

3. "might feel more connected to the founder" if you already think he's a robot (nt)

[DavidDvorkin]

4. Feel free to speak openly and honestly to AI Zuck

Which will never pass on anything you say.

[mopinko]

5. i predict unintended consequences.

unless he finds a way to bullet proof it, he’s in for some futuristic mocking.

[DonCoquixote]

6. if you do not want to interact with employees

why the F**k do you think we should pay you?
Seriously, lets go ahead wit replacing the CEOs with ai, they will probably do a better job, and treat humans better, if of no other reason that they know we can pull the plug on them.

[nuxvomica]

7. "Zuckerberg has been spending five to ten hours a week coding"

I find that hard to believe. I didn't think he was still coding or was very good at it when he was. That aside, it takes an especially clueless person to think employees interacting with an AI version of him will feel more connected to him. People like Zuckerberg don't realize all the effort to make these bots seem more human, or, short of that, more Zuckerberg, is actually a form of fraud. It's like when the demon in The Exorcist made Regan sound like Fr. Karras' dead mother. People don't like to be scammed like this. It's creepy.

[FakeNoose]

20. By the time this bot gets used, he will have fired everyone who personally knows him

The new employees will never get to meet him in person, so the only Mark Z. they will ever know will be the bot version.

[Martin68]

8. He wants to be the Wizard of Oz! What a creep.

Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.

[cynical_idealist]

9. I'm sure it will be bursting with charisma

[Hassin Bin Sober]

15. Just like him

Hell, it might be more human looking.

[thesquanderer]

10. This makes me think of the Kier animatronic in Severance. (n/t)

[BoomaofBandM]

11. Corporations in Max Headroom?

[Miguelito Loveless]

12. Wow!

We are even ignoring the lessons from Forbidden Planet.

[scipan]

22. Monsters from the id!!!

[bluestarone]

13. His parents mispelled his name. to many Z's. Gotta change that Z to a

F.

[Mysterian]

14. Sick motherfucker

[surrealAmerican]

16. So, he's replacing his own job with AI.

Now he can fire himself!

[EarthFirst]

17. "See! AI obsolescence isn't as bad as it's portrayed..."

“In creating an AI version of myself; I will essentially be writing myself out of the day to day operations here at META…”

[Moostache]

18. This is the single creepiest phrase of the 21st century to date.

“might feel more connected to the founder through interactions with it,”

Sweet fucking Christ crucified... that motherfucking weirdo clown needs to just go the fuck away before we really DO break out the pitchforks and torches because his freaky weirdo ass is HIGH on the list of billionaire clowns to be roasted and fed to the wolves...

[Quanto Magnus]

19. He can't be bothered

actually talking to his employees.... They are so beneath him.....

[duckworth969]

21. Avatar will be more real and alive than he is

Moron

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

23. He wants to be Hari Seldon from "Foundation".

Centuries from now, we will be able to interact with AI artifacts of Zuckerberg, Stephen Miller, Jerod Kushner, all the wise and knowing.

[PATRICK]

24. Dune Prequel

The very beginning of the trouble finds a group of elites taking over then making themselves immortal with their brains implanted in powerful mech bodies. Then the dumbest and laziest of them invents a computer to do all that pesky domination work. Voila Omnius the super AI who seizes planets and starts a looong war with the mechs and humans on surviving free worlds.

Fiction is sometimes only speculating on human nature taking its course.

The nasty idiots today of course only have one planet for all these games. For us, the future is always premature- and stupidly suicidal.