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Poor Facebook workers. Making 8x the median wage. Working hard to make life worse for everyone on the planet. I hope they have to find retail jobs.
Yeah give all their money to Zuck instead!
Unfortunately I think this has to happen for it to crash. Basically we need some big companies to dismantle themselves in favour of AI doing their work, and then it all going spectacularly wrong. Amazon have had a small scale event this week, but it needs to be bigger.
It’s going to take about 5 years for a full depreciation cycle on the current investment. If they are forced to replace the AI hardware without having made a profit on it, investors should finally dump it. Everyone’s talking about the AI crash. It’s probably got room to grow. There’s always a chance it does meet productivity goals too 🤷♂️
Well, in fairness, if you happen to work for one of the world’s biggest dicks, at some point you have to expect to get the shaft.
Good.
I hope all those affected get severence packages, and find a new place of employment.
Then I hope the bubble pops, and meta just collapses inward due to low staff numbers.
Get rid of the people who do work to keep the money hole going! We’re almost there!
Zuck has always been lagging behind with every initiative. First the meta world, a massive flop. Next, his AI which will be another massive flop.
Of course, the cost is peoples livelihoods because this billionaire is incompetent. He’ll for sure say “we’re laying off 20% because AI is that good!” (or something along those lines)
Meanwhile, his company is underperforming and down 20% over the last 6 months
There’s a reason their company has only stolen or bought ideas, I don’t think they’ve innovated at all.
There’s a reason their company has only stolen or bought ideas, I don’t think they’ve innovated at all.
You could say that again. Young people might not be aware, but in the mid-late 00s Facebook underwent frequent changes. Anyone else remember the fun, personalized features you used to be able to put on your profile? I remember having a “flair” app/widget/whatchacallit that looked like a bulletin board pinned with buttons. You could pick existing “flair” or make your own, and build a quirky, personalized board that reflected your interests. There were loads of add-ons like that, as well as games (such as the infamous Farmville), all of which made each Facebook profile unique.
But over time, Facebook got rid of such features, while adding on features that were clearly stolen from other social media sites. From introducing chat, to adding likes/“reactions”, to prioritizing group pages on the feed over your actual friends, Facebook was shameless in introducing changes that were stolen from other sites, none of which users ever asked for. I remember ranting after most updates, asking why Facebook was culling its own individual identity in favor of cloning other sites. Today the site is unrecognizable from the early days. The features that made it fun for me back then are all gone, replaced with features that make engagement more shallow and forgettable.
I used to write blog posts in Notes (a feature that is either gone or hidden from pages, last I checked. Which was a few years ago.) That change hurt for me in particular, because when a friend of mine passed away in 2011, I wrote a eulogy and poem on a Note and shared it with his family. Now, I can’t find it anymore. Like it poofed away into the ether without a warning. What the fuck, Facebook?
Those who’ve only used Facebook over the past decade have no idea what they missed out on. There are reasons Facebook got popular in the early days, reasons which no longer exist on the platform today. It’s like Zuck decided to take a living, successful organism, cut out its healthy limbs and organs, and morph it into a Frankenstein’s monster built of other sites’ parts. All while it was still conscious.
Yup, the good days. Now I can’t even have my “feed” in order and I rarely see my friends posts, just ads.
I stopped using it after it went from a timeline to feed. It’s also mostly bots now
Try requesting a full export of your data… I’m pretty sure they have that feature (or at least used to… I haven’t been on facebook in years). The note may be lurking in there, and while I hate how much data they retain, it would be great if you could get that back!
But AI is a free force multiplier. Everyone at meta is 10x more efficient. Why would you lay anyone off?
Give the AI agency over all the system files while you’re at it.
How amazing would it be if “AI” brought meta down? I’m getting wet.
Don’t feel too bad for them, I’m sure the redundancy pay is pretty good for a Meta engineer
I’d be interested to see how much it costs to replace those engineers when everyone wakes up and this bubble bursts. And I hope its enough to make Zuck hurt
Good. Let’s just push a little further until…
That poor lad will be wearing rags shortly if he doesn’t quickly handle the curse of AI inflicted upon his business…
Nhaa, he has been rich for too long. He’ll be bailed out by the government.
