If you’re one of Meta’s 79,000 employees and can’t get hold of the boss, don’t worry. The owner of Facebook and Instagram is reportedly working on an AI version of Mark Zuckerberg who can answer all your queries.
The AI clone of Zuckerberg, the company’s founder and chief executive, is being trained on his mannerisms and tone as well as his public statements and thoughts on company strategy.
The rationale behind the project, according to the Financial Times, is that employees might feel more connected to one of the most powerful people in Silicon Valley.
The Meta chief has a history of creating and experimenting with digitalised versions of himself.
Ewww
Well, at least they won’t have to worry about overcoming the uncanny valley.
Can this still be considered masturbatory if you involve 70k other people? Extreme Exhibition maybe?
Nonono, it is so the boss can talk down to and micromanage every employee individually.
In order to remain employed by the company, you must engage with this entirely optional ™ volunteer-based free service ™ for at least 30 minutes each week. The amount of time spent will be noted as a line item upon your performance review, and in that of your direct supervisor.
[1] Employment with this company is optional and at-will [2] Volunteering service hours is not required, however 36 hours are mandatory each week. •Direct supervisor has access to your chat logs, keystrokes, eye placement on screens, and inquiry history with the company AI.
being trained on his mannerisms and tone as well as his public statements and thoughts on company strategy.
I didn’t know he had mannerisms or tone
+1 for gigglesnort.
This is exactly the S-Tier business move I’ve been calling for all along. The most impactful places for AI automation are the c-suite. Think about it! The most expensive employees. Mostly useless and performative. They “hallucinate” at least as much as LLMs. It’s the perfect place.
It also has proven business parallels. Remember when EVs started. Car companies struggled to break into markets with low end, eco & cost conscious models. EVs kicked into high gear with the high margin performance models like Tesla S. The high margins justified the production costs and only as they gradually refined the technology and scalled up did the costs go down to fit successively lower markets.
Zuckerberg gunning for the Global C-Suite is exactly what McKinsey&Co would advise. We’re entering a new era - This bad-boy right here is kicking off what historians will refer to as The Second Corporate Wars. I approve. Let the bodies hit the floor.
I would have preferred a wooden marionette.
In what fucking world would anybody want to talk to him?
Now just prompt engineer to give all the employees raises and watch how quick it gets unplugged
Why would anyone work for facebook/meta?
its still an important social media product for elderly people.
Important?
Elderly people don’t need Facebook. The cloud is right there to be yelled at.
Let’s look at this from the other perspective too.
“Rich boss can’t stand human contact, trains a computer to think and talk like him to interact with underlings in his place.”
That’s why. Because Zucker can’t be bothered to speak with the rest of us any more then he must.
So… Did they digitalize an android?
No need to. They digitized him when they first booted him up, and this time they launched just the software and called it a new AI.
Ah ok, so just was a cloning of the code.
