Zuckerberg lays out how he thinks this will work in the AI era: “If trends continue, then you’d expect people to spend less time in productivity software, and more time creating and connecting. Personal superintelligence that knows us deeply, understands our goals, and can help us achieve them will be by far the most useful.”
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.
AI’s going to get your work done for you so you have more time to scroll through reels of OF models on Instagram.
what free time lol, capitalists will just make you do more work in the time you gained by being more productive. you will never “get back” that time until all the capitalists are gone. Of course, since CEOs jobs are easily replaceable with a basic AI, it’s clear they’ll get more time to look at . But not the average prole, no.
I love when some tech CEO mouths off about superintelligence and it’s the same half-broken chatbot crap theyve been shoving into everything.
“If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him”; but Its invention is the apotheosis of a Speak-n-Spell.
Ah, the age old dilemma:
“I’m getting my employees to work all the time so I can maximize the amount of surplus value I extract.”
“But if everyone is busy working, who is going to consoom my products?!”
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.
This strategy, while potentially dystopian
That’s not “potentially” dystopian, that’s literally the plot of like, 30% of Black Mirror episodes.
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.
The future is all AI slop, which will finally give me time to catch up on all the real media made by humans that I’ve missed over the years
Thanks Zucc. You really know what I need.
Keep reading for my chat with a Figma exec
What’s figma?
figma balls
That’s my go-to joke at work (we use Figma)
