Meta has appointed right-wing, anti-LGBTQ+, anti-DEI conspiracy theorist Robby Starbuck to advise them on preventing political bias in AI.
  • brucethemoose@lemmy.worldEnglish
    72·
    7 days ago

    Zuckerberg is such a coward.

    He bends over backwards for even the slightest change in wind, like VR or a fascist govt. He dropped open-weight llama at the first experimental stumble.

    Mark my words, if a mega liberals got into power, he’d fire this guy and act as woke as can be.

    • artifex@piefed.socialEnglish
      34·
      7 days ago

      It’s not cowardice, it’s intentional. He wants a timeline where techno-lords with divine authority oversee their vassal states and nations are a thing of the past. Bending over for a fascist party is the fastest way to get there.

      • brucethemoose@lemmy.worldEnglish
        16·
        7 days ago

        I honestly think Zuck is more of a coward than the Palantir CEO and that techno feudalism crowd. He’s just so obviously insecure in all his decision making it’s unreal.

        • chaogomu@lemmy.worldEnglish
          31·
          7 days ago

          If he was a coward he would never have hired Joel Kaplan.

          Joel Kaplan was a Bush toady who participated in the Brooks Brothers riot.

  • Steamymoomilk@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    543·
    7 days ago

    I love the irony of people trying to make there AI’s not gay.

    BROTHER

    TURING WAS GAY THE GODFATHER OF COMPUTERS.

    oh the irony

  • dinckel@lemmy.worldEnglish
    51·
    7 days ago

    Delete your facebook accounts, and anything else related to this company. If your argument is that your family still uses one, then force them to get rid of it too.

    Don’t participate in the fascist echochamber

    • boonhet@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      1·
      6 days ago

      Damn near impossible if you drive a shitbox, Facebook groups are where you get car parts :/

    • AutumnReaper@lemmy.worldEnglish
      32·
      7 days ago

      I really wish I could delete my Facebook and Instagram, but my late brother’s account is on both and I really miss him. I try to do my part by not making content for the machine nor interact with the platform and only go on when I really miss my brother

      • ShadowZone@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9·
        7 days ago

        I never started using it. It’s the cancer version of messaging.

        I sometimes get weird looks from people when I tell them I refuse to use it.

        Signal is the way to go.

        • lemmyknow@lemmy.todayEnglish
          1·
          6 days ago

          Man, I so wish I could do that. I felt I was finally in a position where I could leave once and for all. No groups for work or study stuff, just family and several mostly unused contacts. Surely my family would choose Signal rather than lose all contact. Then I got myself into a volunteering thing, and I need WhatsApp again (for groups and 1-on-1)

      • sykaster@feddit.nlEnglish
        72·
        7 days ago

        I quit everything except whatsapp, it’s virtually impossible without actually impacting my life negatively. Been trying and some friends have started using Signal, but most people don’t.

        • youmaynotknow@lemmy.zipEnglish
          5·
          7 days ago

          I guess it’s all about choosing what each of us deems worse. “Do I want a saner life even if it means not having some convenience, or is this change going to mess with my life for little benefit?”.

          7 years ago I told everyone I was leaving WhatsApp and moving to Signal on day X. Some installed signal and we started using that exclusive, some others didn’t, and we stopped chatting, just did phone calls.

          Fast forward to today, most of the people in my life use Signal, some of them exclusively to use it with me, and the rest, I haven’t missed (they call every now and then though).

          It is a scary move, 100%, but well worth it, in my opinion.

          • zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
            2·
            7 days ago

            Yeah in my experience I’ve been able to use regular texts, discord or signal instead. People will accept at least one most of the time

    • DarthFreyr@lemmy.worldEnglish
      123·
      6 days ago

      Is there actually something behind all these comments about his appearance, or is it just typical internet name-calling that mostly falls into the same anti-LGBTQ+ bucket?

  • voodooattack@lemmy.worldEnglish
    24·
    7 days ago

    From the way American mega-corporations are going all-in on this, it seems like a long-term choice; so I think it’s one of two things: the shareholders are demanding that they go full republican (which isn’t happening AFAIK), or they’re trying to survive because they know something you don’t.

    Disclaimer: not a US citizen/resident, but sad to see this happening tbh.

    Edit: or it’s short-term and caused by Trump pressuring everybody to do controversial stuff in order to distract the public from the Epstein files.

    • Nalivai@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      6 days ago

      They are on it just as much as they were on progressive issues very little time ago. Corpos don’t have believes, they do what they think will bring them more money now

    • barnacul@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      6 days ago

      Silicon Valley elites quietly became deeply entrenched in some wild god-complex groupthink over the last 5-10 years, and it aligns fairly well with fascism.

  • RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    22·
    7 days ago

    Robby Starbuck

    That sounds like a name from some shitty fiction. Bobby Bucks you kidding me

  • Chaotic Entropy@feddit.ukEnglish
    17·
    7 days ago

    Meta seems to really want to overcorrect… they demanded Meta remove their diversity policies, so Meta said that they’d do one better and just start stringing people up in the office.