Dude could have just been successful letting Facebook be a tool to keep in touch with friends and family. Instead he has all these weird, unnecessary ideas about how to manipulate and spy on people.

1. The system makes people poorer in money and time, and social ability
2. People can't afford to make and keep as many friends
3. The system gives people artificial friends that cost less

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6. The system uses people's artificial friends to reinforce itself

F me…

Does no one see the propaganda potential for this? Yeah, let’s give one guy more intimate, influential control over the psyche of hundreds of millions.

When Zuck builds his inevitable broligarch dick rocket, he should try to land it on the sun.

Impressive how a single guy pathology shaped an entire generation and the internet

online human friends still can't compete with seeing them in person ... wtf a chatbot gonna do to fix this?

Not saying we shouldn't talk to friends online and stuff it's just that real humans are having difficulties filling these gaps.

Also, why the fuck would I want a friend like that'll snitch me out and be used to sell me shit? I swear, he wants us hooked on these things and be like, "Subscribe now or your friends will be shut off forever!"

That’s just cause he has no friends, so he assumes you don’t either.

he's right. I don't have any friends.

because I refuse to use his shitty platform and every human I have came in contact with for my entire life is so hollow and selfish they can't interact with a human being without some form of technology.

so I come on lemmy and harass fascist supporting scum as a hobby.

How people still use meta products is beyond me

"the average American has fewer than three people who would suck their dick, fewer than three people that would even consider it. And the average person has demand for meaningfully more.”

Bit of projection there, Mr. Suck.

Of course he would say that, Chatbots are the only friends he has.

In order to be my friend, I'm going to have to require verification that you're a human. Please tell me the exact GPS coordinates of all the traffic lights on Earth.

I have very few friends, but chatbots are not the answer.

Is that so? Will the chatbots help me pack a van when I need to move? Will they stand next to me at my wedding? I'm thrilled to hear that bots can finally replace friends! (Something the people have been clamoring for)

Dammit, Zuck! You don't have to hide behind a "chatbot", just fucking tell me if you want to be my friend.

Also, no. But be fucking honest about it.

Who needs friends when we have each other, amirite? Right guys? …guys?

Not even opening that. I'm tired of these clickbait and hatebait articles.

I already know a couple of people who already talk to chatbots as if they were their friends. This is so depressing... And by the current state of things, I might be reading bot publications and replying to bots here and there, without knowing. That just increases my will to die

I would rather talk to a 37 year old human with a hello kitty pfp on some obscure otacore furry/anime forum that absolutely nobody has heard of than give your dogshit AI skinwalkers ten seconds of my attention dawg.

You took my routine. My health. My taste in music, the books I read, the places I go, the movies I watch. My every aspiration and passing thought was a transactional end point for slop firms.

I will die old and lonely before I let you turn my friendships into a fucking commodity LMAO.

I could live out the remainder of my life without using a Zuckerberg product and be totally fine with that.

I would rather talk with the guards in Whiterun than your chatbot, zuck.

Fuck you four eyes

Funny, less than an hour ago I heard Ed Zitron speculate that these uber-rich tech bros invent these things because they don't know how to socialise, and they think everybody is like that.

Correct, I have no friends, and I intend to keep it that way.