while it is no doubt the case that most big tech companies are engaged in perpetual wars of attrition against their users, i can’t help but feel that this AI posters thing is different from the examples you provided. at least in those examples, the users have something to gain from sacrificing their privacy. and the company also stands to gain something as well. (although typically the company stands to gain way more from these exchanges.) but in this case, i’m not really sure how anyone benefits. nobody seems to want to be tricked into talking to an AI, and i don’t see how that would make the company more money. maybe they think it would drive up “engagement” somehow? but that seems like a hard thing to accurately predict. it seems more likely that zuckerberg is convinced that AI is automatically good in any tech company, and this is the most obvious way to shove AI into social media websites. so therefore it must be a good idea somehow.

it’s not really like elon has kept any company representatives on staff though. after a year or so of seeing “we reached out for comment and received an automatic reply containing a poop emoji” in every news article about twitter, i don’t blame anyone for not trying to contact the company directly. at this point, grok is probably the best we’ll get. if elon doesn’t like that, maybe he should hire a PR department

i find it incredible that despite having access to basically unlimited information about its users, facebook makes stupid decisions that seem almost designed to piss off its users. and then you have situations like this, where facebook was told ahead of time that this decision would make a lot of people angry, and then facebook went and did it anyway only to walk it back a few days later and say it was a mistake. why?

i’m not buying it

ah yes, mr beast, the world renowned humanitarian

if luigi hypothetically did participate in this plan, wouldn’t that itself be a crime (accessory to murder)? so they could still get him for something if they found out about the plan, but probably for less than if he did actually kill someone. i’m not a lawyer though so i don’t really know how this stuff works or if it would even be feasible to prosecute him for any of those things (if he did them)

it shouldn’t be too surprising that he cheats in online games given that he cheats in pretty much every other aspect of his life as well

it would be a pretty funny post for the full 5 minutes it would last until it got stalin sorted out of lemmy.ml