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Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly building an AI clone to replace him in meetings

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Re: Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly building an AI clone to replace him in meetings

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This is extraordinary. The FT piece says "They added that the character was being trained on the billionaire’s mannerisms, tone and publicly available statements, as well as his own recent thinking on company strategies, so that employees might feel more connected to the founder through interactions with it." Surely the more likely outcome is that employees feel less connected to "the founder" because they know that…

> might feel more connected to the founder through interactions with it Also... is that a thing most people want?

Robo-Zuck seems to think so... and his AI agrees.

Re: Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly building an AI clone to replace him in meetings

#34

I can understand the appeal; being able to be "present" without the time cost can mean (possibly significantly more) presence at the same cost. This could be very attractive especially to those managing personal relations, like sales representatives. But I'm surprised that the risks seem to be so underestimated. Once this clone exists, what happens if it gets out into the wild? Imagine everyone having full access do…

The real risk is when shareholders realize an LLM can do the CEO's job.

Re: Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly building an AI clone to replace him in meetings

#35

This is extraordinary. The FT piece says "They added that the character was being trained on the billionaire’s mannerisms, tone and publicly available statements, as well as his own recent thinking on company strategies, so that employees might feel more connected to the founder through interactions with it." Surely the more likely outcome is that employees feel less connected to "the founder" because they know that…

> might feel more connected to the founder through interactions with it Also... is that a thing most people want?

Yes. People don’t always frame it as “ooh, if only I could meet Mark Zuckerberg”, but most people IME are at least a little wistful about the kind of company where you’re on friendly terms with your CEO.

Is this a meaningful replacement for that? Probably not, but I’m not prepared to rule it out. Give 1 in 1000 Claudes a Zuckerberg persona and you’d get some chuckles out of it I bet.

Re: Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly building an AI clone to replace him in meetings

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post #27

I can understand the appeal; being able to be "present" without the time cost can mean (possibly significantly more) presence at the same cost. This could be very attractive especially to those managing personal relations, like sales representatives. But I'm surprised that the risks seem to be so underestimated. Once this clone exists, what happens if it gets out into the wild? Imagine everyone having full access do…

Very ironic for the billionaire to be openly replacing himself with AI, I suppose he believes his job is easy enough that an LLM can do it, so we definitely don't need him

Yes, exactly. Anyone training a model to replace themselves, is replacing themselves -- with something that can run 24/7 and can easily scale. And the better the model, the easier to replace.

Hence why I'm so surprised that MZ, of all people, is arguing in this direction.

I would think that the potential for malicious abuse alone should have scared him off of this.

Re: Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly building an AI clone to replace him in meetings

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> Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg could soon have an AI clone of himself to interact with and provide feedback to employees, according to a report from the Financial Times.

https://www.ft.com/content/02107c23-6c7a-4c19-b8e2-b45f4bb9c...

https://archive.is/mtVXJ

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