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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg appears so determined to win the AI race that he is willing to sacrifice some employee privacy to make it happen.

In a leaked audio recording published by the worker advocacy group More Perfect Union, Zuckerberg purportedly answered an employee's question about "device monitoring" with a six-minute monologue in which he said Meta employees are very smart and to win the most competitive technology race in history, he would need to collect their keystrokes, mouse clicks, and screenshots to make its own AI measure up to its rivals.

“We are using this to feed a very large amount of content into the AI model, so that way it can learn how smart people use computers to accomplish tasks. I think that this is going to be a very big advantage if we can do it,” Zuckerberg purportedly said during an April 30 meeting in which an employee asked about the "top of mind" issue.

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[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 82 points 6 days ago (6 children)

"I know you guys are the smart people, so I'm going to harvest all your data because I'm just a fucking idiot who got lucky on harvesting data and have no issues exploiting every single one of you."

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 16 points 6 days ago

To be fair he’s also been trying to make an AI version of himself.

The idea is a less atrocious if you don’t have to worry about any of your needs being met. But even then, there’s a huge difference between “I recorded myself doing X” and “we’re going to watch everything you say or do and hopefully put you out of a job with it”.

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[–] lmagitem@lemmy.zip 26 points 5 days ago (2 children)

What's crazy is that he could just have asked for volunteers and add a pay raise alongside agreement in participating in that crap and I'm sure half the company would be doing it willingly. Instead he just pissed off everyone and will likely get data poisoning from maliciously compliant employees, and lose highly skilled employees.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

data poisoning from maliciously compliant employees

Even if everyone cooperated faithfully and diligently fully in on the plan of being rendered redundant in a few years, what do they even have?

Just the generic motions of work. As soon as your business model shifts, or some interface changes, or you run into a problem that you haven't seen before...

They're cannibalizing themselves. That's the only way you can describe it. An organization that's hollowing itself out with management aware it won't last (or delusional enough to believe reality will never catch up with them).

If they're doing this with their infrastructure, how much does anyone want to bet they're playing fast and loose with their budgets and accounting as well?

This all screams Enron/Worldcomm waiting to happen.

There's a reason we abandoned monarchy. Zuck is effectively the king of meta. Literally. The founding corporate structure is designed so he literally can never be fired. And if you give anyone absolute unaccountable power, it's only a matter of time until they drive things right off a cliff.

[–] eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 5 days ago

Yup. "Meta Pioneers" or some shit.

Hell I always assumed that my work computer had a keylogger and was instrumented to shit, I might well have taken 10% at my old job.

[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 46 points 6 days ago (6 children)

Ethics doesn’t matter. Morality doesn’t matter. The only thing that matters is profit.

[–] Airfried@piefed.social 29 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It seems to me not even profits matter to them. Just control and power.

[–] kescusay@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago

Yup. Money is important only in that it leads to control and power.

[–] areakode@riskeratspizza.com 10 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Or "Capital". You've just discovered the fatal flaw in capitalism: when money matters more than people, money will always win.

[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I discovered that decades ago. I’ve just been screaming into the void ever since.

[–] areakode@riskeratspizza.com 8 points 6 days ago

I hear you. We live in the age of information. I pine for a period of time when people can find intelligence.

[–] osanna@lemmy.vg 4 points 6 days ago

LINE GO UP!

[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 2 points 5 days ago

"Every dollar spent is a vote cast"

[–] terabyterex@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

for Zuck specifically, it feels like ego.

[–] REDACTED@infosec.pub 2 points 6 days ago

More like fooling the investors that AI will bring profit

[–] chilldrivenspade@lemmy.world 17 points 5 days ago (4 children)

if i could insta-kill any company today….might not be THE best choice, but it would definitely be the most satisfying to kill meta

[–] PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world 11 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Meta provides zero value to the world anymore. It would be a net positive to be rid of it. Maybe I could go back to using Craigslist again instead of having to use Facebook to sell my used shit….

[–] Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 6 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Craigslist is still fantastic and hasn't changed for like 30 years.

I know buuut it has way less users than it did 10 years ago which means less eye balls looking at your stuff….

[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Google. You can easily avoid Meta. You don't have to de-metify phones, you don't have to use Meta's browser. It's really hard (and getting harder) to avoid Google. Meta is annoying, Google is cancer.

[–] calcopiritus@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

Disagree. You can easily degooglify for the most part. Except android. But you won't get your friends and family to contact you via anything other than Whatsapp (except in america).

And teens without Instagram just don't exist socially. Maybe with TikTok now. But not like TikTok is any better.

[–] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 5 points 5 days ago

I would of course, go for Palantir.

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[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 14 points 5 days ago

Zuckerberg: People just submitted it.

Zuckerberg: I don't know why.

Zuckerberg: They "trust me".

Zuckerberg: Dumb fucks.

[–] Bloefz@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg appears so determined to win the AI race that he is willing to sacrifice some employee privacy to make it happen.

"Some of you will die but that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make"

[–] oldwoodenship@lemmus.org 8 points 5 days ago

I love how he paid a consultant a lot of money to adopt the image of a giant fuckboy.

[–] trashboat@piefed.social 14 points 6 days ago (2 children)

You’re not winning the race, Mark

[–] scytale@piefed.zip 12 points 6 days ago (2 children)

The race to the bottom perhaps.

[–] green_goglin@thelemmy.club 2 points 6 days ago

[mEtAvErSe noises intensify]

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[–] NottaLottaOcelot@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 days ago

Isn’t he? There was an entire Hollywood movie in 2010 that grossed $224M about what an abhorrent person he is, and yet he’s still more successful than ever.

The world has shown that it may not love that he’s a shitty person, but it’s too apathetic to stop using his products and lining his pockets

[–] Meat_Of_Nan@lemmy.world 11 points 6 days ago

And I defend the idea that Zuckerberg should be throw into a slow moving industrial grinder.

[–] bigbangdangler@reddthat.com 8 points 6 days ago

Guillotines. Invest now before it's too late!

[–] magnue@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago

Won't learn shit from meta employees. Biggest bunch of useless grifters I've ever met.

[–] nialv7@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

meta employees.. i am begging you. leave, now. at least form a union or something.

[–] RustyShackleford@piefed.social 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] osanna@lemmy.vg 2 points 6 days ago

they trust me, the dumb fucks

[–] HotsauceHurricane@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago
[–] vane@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

He said that the biggest problem is that they have leaks about what they want to do with AI. https://odysee.com/DYiMJ1JP_az:b44480746b23cb260ba4e23261e1e3e5dfee6f20

[–] droniecarp@lemmy.zip 3 points 5 days ago

Zuck should have his head put on a skewer.

[–] Nofearfrontier@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

Whoever stayed at meta this far deserves everything coming at them from this lizard

[–] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 4 points 6 days ago

Is that Zuck or the A.I. Zuck created by Zuck so that Zuck won't have to Zuck zo much ?

[–] mecen@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 days ago

Win AI race to replace as many humans as possible and have monopoly on solution.

Messiah is there.

[–] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 3 points 6 days ago

Fuck Zuck, the cuck that sucks.

[–] Cornpop@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

lol he will never win

[–] tomiant@piefed.social 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Ah, the good ole' "the ends justify the means" school of immorality!

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 2 points 6 days ago

He really is drinking his own cool aide.

[–] Hairyfishnuts@feddit.online 2 points 6 days ago

We need to signal the plumber.

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