In an interview this week, Mark Zuckerberg said most Americans have only 3 friends, but they’d like 15. Never fear, he has a solution to how to get 5 times more friends. Meta will create AI friends for you. As it will own them, as befits the world’s second largest advertising company, their primary purpose will really be to sell you stuff.
Even in an episode of ‘Black Mirror’, this vision of the future would rank as one of the bleaker dystopian hellscapes. It says something about how out of touch Big Tech has become with the lives of ordinary people, it never even occurred to Mark Zuckerberg how appalling this sounds to most people.
My vision of the future doesn’t have Mark Zuckerberg in it.
My vision of the future has Mark Zuckerberg getting eaten by a polar bear after trying to pose with it for a Coke ad.
My vision of the present doesn’t have Mark Idontknowwho in it
Mine has him poor, serving McD’s burgers. Then some new (or is it?) TikTok trend drops, where a large shake gets chucked into the server window and hits him straight on. He has no choice but to continue working as the shake remnants slide down his uniform and through his hair, since minimum wage is all he’s got, and he needs the money.
I don’t have IRL friends, what makes them think I want Ai friends? Are they stupid?
There’s no way I want 15 friends.
Healthy people have a resilient emotional support network and that can mean different numbers for different people - but 15 channels of commercial messaging bots is not that
I thought alphabet was the biggest advertising company?
Yes, Meta are 2nd, I amended the text.
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How cute! I hope it stays a vision.
He’s definitely got some people imprisoned in solitary confinement with only ai bots for company, right now.
Reinventing high school friends selling you MLM
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Sound like a beautiful world! /s
