"I think we’re going to add a whole new category of content, which is AI generated."

In a quarterly earnings call that was overwhelmingly about AI and Meta’s plans for it, Zuckerberg said that new, AI-generated feeds are likely to come to Facebook and other Meta platforms. Zuckerberg said he is excited for the “opportunity for AI to help people create content that just makes people’s feed experiences better.” Zuckerberg’s comments were first reported by Fortune.

“I think we’re going to add a whole new category of content, which is AI generated or AI summarized content or kind of existing content pulled together by AI in some way,” he said. “And I think that that’s going to be just very exciting for the—for Facebook and Instagram and maybe Threads or other kind of Feed experiences over time.”

  • Cruxifux@feddit.nlEnglish
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    4 days ago

    Every change and addition made to Facebook since it first started has been for the worse. This manchild is a monster who’s irresponsibility has literally caused genocides in Africa.

  • Cruxifux@feddit.nlEnglish
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    4 days ago

    I learned today that every AI prompt uses about 16 ounces of clean water. It was really depressing.

    • ClamDrinker@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 days ago

      If you think that’s depressing, wait until you find out that it’s basically nothing in the grand scheme of things.

      spoiler

      Most sources agree that we use about 4 trillion cubic meters of water every year worldwide (Although, this stat is from 2015 most likely, and so it will be bigger now). In 2022, using the stats here Microsoft used 1.7 billion gallons per year, and Google 5.56 billion gallons per year. In cubic meters that’s only 23.69 million cubic meters. That’s only 0.00059% of the worldwide water usage. Meanwhile agriculture uses on average 70% of a country’s daily fresh water.

      Even if we just look at the US, since that’s where Google and Microsoft are based, they use 322 billion gallons of water every day, resulting in about 445 billion cubic meters per year, that’s still 0.00532%. So you can have 187 more Googles and Microsofts before you even top a single percentage.

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      And as others have pointed out the water isn’t gone, there’s some cyclicality in how the water is used.

    • pup_atlas@pawb.socialEnglish
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      4 days ago

      It doesn’t use water in the sense that it is consuming it. It “uses” water in the sense that it is temporarily in a datacenter, gets a little hot, and then leaves the datacenter. I don’t even think a lot of datacenters use actual drinking water, instead taking water directly from a river, warming it slightly, and putting it back in said river.

      Not to say I like AI, or think it’s a good thing. But this phrase that’s been going around just bugs me, because it’s really misleading. We should be focused on the ridiculous amount of energy it consumes, not the water it temporarily uses.

      • agent_nycto@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        4 days ago

        From what I learned the problem is they don’t put it back in the river, it’s just in the coolant systems and stays there. And they won’t disclose how much they are actually using.

        • pup_atlas@pawb.socialEnglish
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          4 days ago

          Well it has to go somewhere, you can’t just take in water forever with nowhere for it to go. So either it’s non-potable water being returned to its source, or it’s closed loop. In either case, it’s not really a problem.

        • cowpattycrusader@thelemmy.clubEnglish
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          4 days ago

          There are two types of cooling systems: Closed Loop and Once Through.

          This response consumed 16 oz of water but I am not sure in which manner.

    • aesthelete@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 days ago

      I setup 2FA on Facebook using one of those USB keys ages ago. I tried to login again recently but it tells me to use an authenticator app which I never configured, and when I try to use the USB key it blinks at me. I know the key works because I use it for other things. When I looked into logging in somehow else it brought up some crazy page telling me I’d have to send my license to Facebook or some such shit. Oh well, guess it’s a dead profile now.

  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    4 days ago

    Am i mistaken or did he regress to a typical CEO type, from the way he can’t put together one single sentence without stumbling over another one?

    • ayyy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      4 days ago

      Statements made in quarterly financial calls are a very particular level of legally binding, so CEOs sound like that because they are terrified of making promises that won’t be kept.

  • spector@lemmy.caEnglish
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    4 days ago

    The goal has always been engagement prisons. Where people never leave the platform. With generated content this must seem like a final step. They don’t need to make people to interact with each other in ways that keeps both of them engaged. They don’t need to leech content from other sites while preventing people from going to the site. With generated content people will interact with themselves while engaged in completely fabricated content. It’s even more dystopian than ever.

  • homoludens@feddit.orgEnglish
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    4 days ago

    a whole new category of content, which is AI generated or AI summarized content or kind of existing content pulled together by AI in some way,

    Good to know that they really have thought it through. Reminds me of the kind of user story our project manager writes.

    • ayyy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      4 days ago

      Keep in mind that in quarterly financial statements, any forward-looking promises made are pretty much legally binding so CEOs never give specifics.

  • Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    4 days ago

    This man is a Muppet. He just wants to exploit the people who live in this world and use his services for profits. What a legacy to leave behind…

    He won’t get me. I deleted Facebook over a decade ago. The writing was all over the walls, everyone…

  • andallthat@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 days ago

    I think I’m with him on this one. Replacing all the people on social with AI agents would give us back so much free time! And we could even restart socializing for real.

    Go on Zuckerberg, give us a Facebook made only of AI agents creating fake pictures of inexistent gatherings and posting them, so other AIs can recommend them and million of other AIs can comment on them!

    You are an unsung hero, Zuckerberg, but one day they’ll understand and thank you

    • skulblaka@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      4 days ago

      Genuinely curious how long you could continue getting people to sink advertising dollars into the bot playground. If he played it smart I bet he could get a solid decade or so of people paying to show ads to AIs without telling them all the people are gone. Maybe longer, if he’s really smart and actually tells them for real that there’s no people in there but that their marketing materials will be incorporated into the AI in/output.

  • andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    5 days ago

    It’s probably to nullify the incentive to use external LLMs, thus marking everything generated on the platform by the platform as such and also meaning Zuck can regulate what can actually be generated controlling the flow of LLM-gen content. If you put it that way, it doesn’t sound that senseless.

    • T156@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 days ago

      It might also be an attempt to fence in AI-generated content in its own feed, so that doesn’t infest everything else as much which doesn’t seem that unreasonable either.