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[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

While ChatGPT’s goal is to become a “super assistant” that increasingly does more work on your behalf, Meta’s goal is to fill the free time you will theoretically get back. This strategy, while potentially dystopian, plays more to Meta’s core strengths: maximizing engagement and monetizing that engagement better than anyone else. This idea — that Meta wants to fill the free time created by productivity-focused AI — is what Zuckerberg and his deputies have been pitching more directly both internally and to recruits.

Fucking lmao

Nobody's getting any extra time back from AI so this is a fucking useless plan.

[–] Damarcusart@hexbear.net 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This strategy, while potentially dystopian

That's not "potentially" dystopian, that's literally the plot of like, 30% of Black Mirror episodes.

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 6 points 2 months ago

Basically how social media has always operated. Addict people and gameify to take over their time as much as possible.

Get in their pocket too and take over every single moment of spare time they have throughout the day to look at their phones and engage with notifications.

Work out daily routines of the individual using location data. Give notifications at moments of the day where the user is most likely to engage with them based on the routine data gathered.

They've distilled that shit down to a dystopian art at a technical level.