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Post by spencerflem »

fullshark wrote: post #257
afavour wrote: post #220

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I know it's selling him short but I can't help but feel like Zuckerberg is one of the luckiest tech CEOs out there. From all the way back in the mid 2000s when FB totally whiffed on smartphones (Google bought Android and pivoted hard, Facebook could have done the same and just... didn't) I've never come away with any clear sense of what Zuck thinks Facebook is or should be. He took initial market advantage and made a…

His smartest move was ignoring any non-poaching agreement and exploding developer salaries in order to build out a trillion dollar company / ad network. For that I will always appreciate him.

Why do you appreciate building an ad network?

Like good for him I guess but it doesn't make me happier.

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Post by Nasrudith »

Avicebron wrote: post #253
InkCanon wrote: post #230

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If they gave us Ready Player One or Necromancer they would have crushed it. Gibson knows what possessed them to make the best possible impression of an office space in Purgatory.

Yeah what's crazy is that VRchat has existed for years, aside from getting sick and looking like an idiot, what people want out of VR seems like a solved problem...

Maybe we are thinking of different things, but my first thought was "We don't have DNI down yet for VR."

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Post by cloudking »

We're at the tipping point where average users cannot tell the difference between AI generated and human content. It's already very evident on Facebook and Threads, just spend a few minutes on either platform, you'll find a post with an AI generated image or video and tons of human engagement supporting it.

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Post by phillipcarter »

muglug wrote: post #70

Instagram just asked if I wanted to chat with a Hawk Tuah AI bot. To me that’s the clearest possible evidence that the product people over there have basically given up. It reminds me of when Facebook went all-in on Live Video in 2016 — a product direction that pretty obviously came from the top.

> To me that’s the clearest possible evidence that the product people over there have basically given up.

Is it really though? I had my annual bubble-breaker family visit for the holidays and at least two of my family members would have totally gone for that.

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Post by hibikir »

qwertox wrote: post #236
onlyrealcuzzo wrote: post #104

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This is sort of TikTok, right? Wasn't TikTok known for becoming viral by having tons and tons and tons of fake upvotes for everything to make everyone think TikTok was a better place to post content [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]? Facebook and Instagram had the same "problems", they just addressed it much earlier than TikTok. I would imagine they have already tested fake likes to maximize how believable the like ratio can be, b…

I feel so stupid about never having thought of this; how naive am I? I mean, yes, I knew about people paying for likes in order to boost their visibility, but never imagined that the platforms themselves would add fake likes to accounts in order to make their users feel more happy about the platform. This makes me question the reason for X making the move to hide the origin of likes, even if my posts never receive an…

This happens in videogame matchmaking too: Someone that loses too much quits, so you want to giving people a positive boost of a very easy game every so often if they lose too badly. Filling lobbies with bad bots does this effectively

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Post by greenhearth »

herbst wrote: post #283
greenhearth wrote: post #268

So this is basically the bitcoin of social media engagement? I don't have any followers, I will just make some? Who's to say they're not real followers? What is this "real" anyway?

You can make bitcoins? Either way, that's the exact way social media works right now. There is nothing real about it anymore. All numbers are inflated.

Yes, you can make your own fake money now. Are you from around here?

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Post by datadrivenangel »

spencerflem wrote: post #291
fullshark wrote: post #257

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His smartest move was ignoring any non-poaching agreement and exploding developer salaries in order to build out a trillion dollar company / ad network. For that I will always appreciate him.

Why do you appreciate building an ad network? Like good for him I guess but it doesn't make me happier.

Developer market salary. FB helped bring up total developer compensation.

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Post by freehorse »

smallmancontrov wrote: post #216
freehorse wrote: post #192

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My impression from reddit posts was that replika had/has a lot of female users. Though I do not think that I personally understand it, I think that there are many reasons people can "fall" for something like this and circumstances that can drive it. Loneliness is not to be underestimated. In any case, I am not sure it is _that_ much "dumper" than the parasocial relationships with onlyfans (or other) influencers, for…

Back when character.ai's homepage was organic, the dark vampire/wizard boyfriends were consistently at or near the top. Loneliness is definitely not unique to men.

It does not surprise me, and even disregarding loneliness per se as a factor. The erotic fandom/fanfiction space, and in general (written) erotica, was afaik always female dominated. I have not really followed this space recently, but it would not surprise me if roleplaying with yaoi-trained llms (or whatever is trending nowadays) was a thing right now in such subcultures. People there have _a lot_ of material to train stuff on.

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Post by dagmx »

blululu wrote: post #203
dagmx wrote: post #155

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Meta leadership have rarely had a vision beyond “how do we capture the success others are having in this space”. I suppose that’s a vision in and of itself but not a very inspired one. This is the case for most of their successful products: - Facebook itself started this way for Zuck - Instagram and WhatsApp were purchases to corner that market against incumbents, as is Thread - Oculus was a purchase to try and get t…

In general this all feels right, but I don' think that a lack of a grandiose vision is necessarily a problem for a company (Facebook's mission of 'make the world more open and connected' boiled down to 'senator - we sell ads'). Product design is about delivering things that people want. Observing trends and trying to get ahead of them somehow is a big part of what makes for a successful product. The bigger issue for…

Yes, part of successful product design is skating to where the puck is (what consumers want), but vision is thinking multiple steps forward to get it where it needs to be (what consumers need but don’t know yet).

That account issue is precisely because meta doesn’t have vision. At best, they’re slightly better than Google, but they very much are cut from the same cloth of throwing multiple takes of something at the wall to see what works. Other companies do so internally, Meta and Google do so externally and go through many deadends as a result.

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Post by Tarsul »

exe34 wrote: post #277
lazide wrote: post #254

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Lt. Barclay is both hero and cautionary tale.

honestly if addiction was the only impediment, I wouldn't care. it's just that I don't care enough anymore.

Did you get bored of your AI friends?
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