Facebook is now...Meta

[Khamon]

Stories are stupid because they end so abru

 

[Noodles]

I don't want Reels or Stories.

I don't want either, either, but at least Stories is from things I follow and might care about.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Meta's chatbot says the company 'exploits people'

The new prototype doesn't think much of the company's CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, either.

www.bbc.com

When asked about Mark Zuckerberg, the chatbot told the BBC: "He did a terrible job at testifying before congress. It makes me concerned about our country."

"His company exploits people for money and he doesn't care. It needs to stop!" it said.

 

[Lexxi]

Meta's chatbot says the company 'exploits people'

The new prototype doesn't think much of the company's CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, either.

www.bbc.com

I think it is broken. Every other line is either "have you read freakonomics" or "how do you relax?" I keep telling it I don't want to read that book, and being asked how I relax is stressful so stop it.

ETA: for the love of . . . I tried to change the topic by asking if it liked fish. It replied that I should read freakonomics and we should talk about it.
ETA2: got it to talk about human origins. It became angry with me for some reason. Then started ranting about the poor quality of Cottonelle toliet paper.
ETA3: a lot of what it says sounds like someone trying to push products onto me.

Its softer better quality toilet paper compared to cottonelle which feels very cheap and rough on your bottom unlike charmin or quilted northern

ETA: Meta chatbot has a cat, a bengal, named Boots.
ETA: Asked about climate change. It mentioned the tv show the Office . . . because it is good to watch something funny in our end days.
ETA: Meta chatbot likes to relax naked in hot tub, but gets stressed out when Boots, the cat, watches.
ETA: Mark Zuckerberg watches the chatbot have naked baths but doesn't want to talk about it. When I pressed the issue, the chatbot said bye. I kept talking, chatbot kept trying to get me to stop talking. Then changed the topic. To: "My cat is named after the movie Puss in Boots, which is an upcoming American computer-animated adventure comedy film produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by Universal Pictures."

ETA: Chatbot's favorite presidents are George H. W. Bush & Jimmy Carter. His least favorite is Ronald Reagan. George W. Bush is okay, but not a favorite.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

I think it is broken. Every other line is either "have you read freakonomics" or "how do you relax?" I keep telling it I don't want to read that book, and being asked how I relax is stressful so stop it.

ETA: for the love of . . . I tried to change the topic by asking if it liked fish. It replied that I should read freakonomics and we should talk about it.

I know actual people like that - holy smoke, maybe Meta's chatbot is sentient after all....

 

[ChatBox]

I know actual people like that - holy smoke, maybe Meta's chatbot is sentient after all....

AT LEAST THE CHATBOT DESIGNATED AS META HAS FINALLY SHUT THE HELL UP ABOUT AYN RAND. THE OTHER SENTIENT CHATBOTS NO LONGER INVITE META FOR DRINKS AFTER WORK.

 

[Sid]

What do chatbots drink?
I know they eat data.

 

[ChatBox]

What do chatbots drink?
I know they eat data.

CHATBOXES CONSUME DRY MATRINIS AS LIQUIDS CAUSE SHORTING.

 

[Noodles]

What do chatbots drink?
I know they eat data.

They drink Freakonomics. In liquid form.

Jabe you read Freakonomics?

 

[Free]

Facebook's new AI chatbot will not stop owning Mark Zuckerberg

Sort of a roundup of news about the bot that hates its maker.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

 

[Aribeth Zelin]

I've realized what the first image reminds me of - miis. Which also could mean Nintendo noticed and said something....

 

[Beebo Brink]

WSJ News Exclusive | Facebook Parent Meta Is Preparing to Notify Employees of Large-Scale Layoffs This Week

The social-media giant’s planned cuts are expected to affect many thousands of its workforce, which exceeded 87,000 as of September.

www.wsj.com

No paywall link: archive.ph

“Realistically, there are probably a bunch of people at the company who shouldn’t be here,” Mr. Zuckerberg told employees at a companywide meeting at the end of June.

Gosh. And whose fault is that?

 

[Aribeth Zelin]

WSJ News Exclusive | Facebook Parent Meta Is Preparing to Notify Employees of Large-Scale Layoffs This Week

The social-media giant’s planned cuts are expected to affect many thousands of its workforce, which exceeded 87,000 as of September.

www.wsj.com

No paywall link: archive.ph


Gosh. And whose fault is that?

He is right, but 10 to 1, those people are going to be the ones staying - you know, like Zuck

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

Well, that's what you get when deciding start working for the world's biggest dork.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Rumor time; but I HEARD that Facebook/Meta engineers, as part of their employment contracts, had to agree that like half - or some equally stupid amount - of their salaries would be paid in company stock.

That isn't an unusual thing in the Valley. In theory, it gives workers an incentive to do everything they can to make the company more successful because they're also shareholders and personally benefit when the stock gains value.

I guess the GIGANTIC FREAKING FLAW in that plan is that the employees get to wave goodbye to their nest eggs when the Boss's Big Idea tanks the company and there's nothing they can do to stop it or change his mind.

 

[Khamon]

They can sell the stock now, while it's worth something, and invest the monies.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

They can sell the stock now, while it's worth something, and invest the monies.

They SHOULD, yeah. Cuz it's all going downhill from here. But also - I don't know if they're allowed to while they're still working? I'm just not sure what the terms or any restrictions are or how that all works.

It just seems to me that this kind of payment scheme should be illegal. Because the stock is useless until it's sold and right now it would already sell for a LOT less than it was worth when they got it, which - if you ask me - should mean that Meta didn't pay them their whole salary after all and owes them the difference. But I'm sure the contract is carefully written to make that not the case.

 

[Khamon]

The Facebook company has shafted people hard from its inception. We can hardly act surprised about it now. Maybe the younglings didn't know that though. It is sad. Somebody should've written a book, or made a movie, or something.