46 pointsby cdrnsf8 hours ago8 comments
  • bodash3 hours ago
    > AI companies see people's images and data as raw material to be exploited

    What a quote

  • encomiast6 hours ago
    Meta seems to be completely tone-deaf when it comes to products and features. I wonder if this is a function of a single person, surrounded by people with little incentive to disagree, having all the decision making power in a company.
    • j16sdiz6 hours ago
      They think like an Advesting company. They listen to their customers.
      • encomiast6 hours ago
        I guess it's obvious, but haven't really thought about this. Back in the day we had media companies and advertisers. Magazine publishers/newspapers/TV Studios on the one hand and the Leo Burnetts/Ogilvy/Wieden+Kennedy on the other. There was always a tension between what advertisers wanted and what creatives wanted. The studio/publishers knew that bowing completely to advertisers was a fast track to making crap and the advertisers knew they needed to remind the publishers that they are only as good as their audiences.

        With Meta we these have more or less merged. It's not really clear now who the customer is. They need to attract both eyeballs and money. I'm not sure what the long-term consequence of that is, but my hunch is it leads to accounting and advertising winning since they actually generate money. And the result is junk creative.

    • BenFranklin1006 hours ago
      The fish rots from the head. It’s Zuckerberg.
  • BenFranklin1006 hours ago
    This and and other thing like Zuckerberg’s desire to integrate facial recognition into Meta’s Ray-ban glasses puts him in squarely in the lead for world’s creepiest human.

    https://www.wired.com/story/meta-smart-glasses-face-recognit...

  • matchbok37 hours ago
    Any best on if they will just re-release this under the radar once the press attention dies down? Zuck isn't spending billions to just not release this stuff.
    • juliangmp2 hours ago
      > Zuck isn't spending billions to just not release this stuff. Well uh.. what happened to his metaverse?
    • altmanaltman2 hours ago
      Even after making insane capex moves, Meta has always remained profitable through it. In fact, Meta has never reported a quarter loss since going public.

      They literally can burn billions and be okay with it. This feature wasn't worth the billions though, the underlying ai tech was which will ofc be repurposed and is used elsewhere also

    • nemomarx6 hours ago
      I mean the feature is "you can tag another users handle to base images on them", that doesn't seem like core functionality?
      • noisy_boy6 hours ago
        It would be if it suddenly became popular and they could show more ads to people for using it.
  • SadErn6 hours ago
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  • jambalaya86 hours ago
    [flagged]
    • khurs6 hours ago
      Move slow and still break things?
  • B1FF_PSUVM6 hours ago
    "They trust me, the dumb fucks"
    • dvfjsdhgfv11 minutes ago
      People usually respond to this, "But he apologized". Well, of course he did. The question is: did he really change his attitude? Because from his actions we can infer not only he didn't, it became worse.
  • matthewfcarlson6 hours ago
    Good.