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Mark Zuckerberg's vision for humanity is terrifying
62 SirLJ 18 8/15/2025, 10:18:03 PM sfgate.com ↗
"Today, only a fraction of time spent on Meta’s services – 7% on Instagram, 17% on Facebook – involves consuming content from online “friends” (“friend sharing”). A majority of time spent on both apps is watching videos, increasingly short-form videos that are “unconnected” – i.e., not from a friend or followed account – and recommended by AI-powered algorithms Meta developed as a direct competitive response to TikTok’s rise, which stalled Meta’s growth"
"Social" media is just media now.
Meta's recent earnings report was great partially because AI was used to boost engagement on ads by 5% to 10%, which was enough to get investors on board for the massive capex. ("Datacenters the size of Manhattan" as per Zuckerberg).
Datacenters the size of Manhattan and dedicated nuclear power plants, for an 8.5% boost in advertising engagement. The world is in a very sad state in some respects. The ideal end state of this optimization process is quite literally zombie consumers. I would think that heading off outcomes like this is partly why we create rules and guardrails as a society, but despite the occasional pushback, I do think that for now we are generally embracing this dystopia. I'm a positive person and think AI is incredible and will do many great things, but Meta's earnings report got to me.
>Deny signups
>Notification blocked.
>Scroll down 2 screens consisting or 1.7 screens worth of ads.
>The ad-video I scrolled past becomes a sticky party of the header and consumes 30% of the screen real estate. Despite this a new static ad enters my screen before the last one is out of it.
Oh yeah it's totally Zucks vision that is the horror here.
https://www.theregister.com/2010/05/14/facebook_trust_dumb/
Critical thinking is not what most of the population is taught.
Meta being Meta is nothing surprising. Why do people even bother using Instagram and Facebook?
Their plan is to watch the world burn.
Make a social isolation app and attention sink, sell virtual friends to fill the void.
The best advice is to delete your Meta accounts and meet people in real life.
Hes a professional sociopath whose entire existence revolves around building the most advanced social engineering platform that has ever existed.
World would be a better place if he drowned the next time he went surfing at his private beach.
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