Zuckerberg blocked curbs on sex-talking chatbots for minors court filing alleges (opens in new tab)

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68 pointsjethronethro1mo ago13 comments

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These past few months have not been a great look for social media's AI solutions. Between this and Grok's Undressing[1] As A Service, social media's priorities seem to be kind of adrift.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46784478

Nevermark1mo ago

Twenty years of consistent behavior, rewarded in hundreds of $ billions of market cap, doesn't look "adrift" to me.

I think "relentless" or "disciplined" may be the words we are looking for.

Desafinado1mo ago

Deliberately misinforming hundreds of millions of people during the most critical juncture in human history isn't what I'd call disciplined. There are other words for it.

But they have made a lot of money, yea.

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replooda1mo ago

On the contrary, I believe they are, and have been for a while, sailing with clear purpose.

Desafinado1mo ago

At least they're going to go down on the wrong side of history for the next two millennia. Maybe not worth the extra beach house.

dangus1mo ago

Tech companies these days don’t even know why they lobby against regulations, they just do it out of blind habit.

Nevermark1mo ago

It's about maximizing their power to operate without any oversight. I.e. not just getting rid of specific hampering regulations, but nullifying the regulators.

dangus1mo ago

I just think the funny thing about it is that it doesn’t even seem to always be in their benefit.

For example, it used to be that tech companies wanted more regulations to keep newcomers out of their space. If you have a lot of regulations it’s hard to disrupt an industry with a startup.

I also think a more regulated AI industry with universal law-enforced privacy controls would lead to more consumer confidence and willingness to adopt the technology. It’s hard to adopt AI when I don’t really know what these companies are going to do with my data and I think they’re just going to lie and weasel word their way into harming me.

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ryandrake1mo ago

These past few months have not been a great look for social media's AI solutions. Between this and Grok's Undressing[1] As A Service, social media's priorities seem to be kind of adrift.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46784478

Nevermark1mo ago

Twenty years of consistent behavior, rewarded in hundreds of $ billions of market cap, doesn't look "adrift" to me.

I think "relentless" or "disciplined" may be the words we are looking for.

Desafinado1mo ago

Deliberately misinforming hundreds of millions of people during the most critical juncture in human history isn't what I'd call disciplined. There are other words for it.

But they have made a lot of money, yea.

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replooda1mo ago

On the contrary, I believe they are, and have been for a while, sailing with clear purpose.

Desafinado1mo ago

At least they're going to go down on the wrong side of history for the next two millennia. Maybe not worth the extra beach house.

dangus1mo ago

Tech companies these days don’t even know why they lobby against regulations, they just do it out of blind habit.

Nevermark1mo ago

It's about maximizing their power to operate without any oversight. I.e. not just getting rid of specific hampering regulations, but nullifying the regulators.

dangus1mo ago

I just think the funny thing about it is that it doesn’t even seem to always be in their benefit.

For example, it used to be that tech companies wanted more regulations to keep newcomers out of their space. If you have a lot of regulations it’s hard to disrupt an industry with a startup.

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