Meta cheerfully boasts about its intentional creation of AI bots, however primarily to drive engagement.
Meta’s fake-user initiatives remind me of its failed “metaverse” applications.
As with the “Useless Web Principle,” the “metaverse” idea was a dystopian nightmare dreamed up by novelists as a warning to mankind. The “Useless Web Principle” is a conspiracy concept that makes an attempt to elucidate how the web went horribly incorrect. However to Meta, the “metaverse” and “Useless Web concept” are product roadmaps.
Meta is proving itself to be an anti-human firm that’s working onerous to get individuals away from the true world and trapped for a lot of hours every day, going nowhere, doing nothing, and interacting with nobody.
Meta will fail. The general public will reject its dystopian objectives.
However the remainder of us ought to be taught from their dangerous instance. What the general public actually needs — one thing Meta used to grasp — is human connection: individuals connecting to different individuals. Promoting, articles, posts, feedback, and chats made by individuals slightly than bots have gotten tougher to seek out and, as such, additionally extra invaluable.
As a result of a “connection” with no one is not any connection in any respect.
