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"We did it, Patrick! We made a technological breakthrough!"
A place for all those who loathe AI to discuss things, post articles, and ridicule the AI hype. Proud supporter of working people. And proud booer of SXSW 2024.
AI, in this case, refers to LLMs, GPT technology, and anything listed as "AI" meant to increase market valuations.
Zuckerberg writes “Everyone will have an exceptionally capable personal agent that understands you, your goals, and everything you care about. Your agent will work 24/7 on your behalf to improve your relationships, health, career, finances, home management, hobbies, and more. It will free up time for the things you enjoy, and help you accomplish more than you could otherwise. It will have strong privacy and security options so you can trust it to handle all of your personal content knowing that no one else can access your information, similar to how encryption works on WhatsApp. You’ll be able to interact with your agent through any device, including your glasses to keep you present in the moment with the people you care about.”
Just...how out of touch this guy are? Sure, these thing can be "managed" by AI 24/7, but what he really forgot is one important detail of living: someone ought to execute those thing that's being managed. Chores needs to be done, relationship needs time to foster, health needs to maintain, career needs to work toward, finance needs discipline, hobbies need times. What AI does is to put thing in place, what most people doesn't have is the luxury of time to do all this shit that need to be done. It's sure fun to be super rich to not having to worry about anything.
Your agent will work 24/7 on your behalf to improve your relationships
Thanks, honey. Another text message from ChatGPT. How thoughtful.
My AI bot keeping in touch with your AI bot. Bots are having a blast without us. Great stuff. 😒
Slavoj Žižek was almost right. I thought that was utterly dystopian when I first heard it, but it’s way, way worse when it’s not sex, but romance/emotional intimacy.
I wonder how many people have read text from AI as their wedding vows. I might cry.
I wonder how many people have read text from AI as their wedding vows.
Oof, I shuddered.
Slavoj Žižek was almost right
Very interesting watch. Although he made me very uncomfortable/nervous with his constant touching of his nose.
Yeah, I gotta assume he likes snorting things.
t will free up time for the things you enjoy, and help you accomplish more than you could otherwise.
You mean like working more hours for the same pay or even less pay? No billionaire is going to give more time off to everyone else.
This is the same argument made about efficiency gains from transitioning to computers in the workplace. It was bullshit then and it's bullshit now.
Every time a billionaire opens their mouth; It’s all bullshit.
As someone with ADHD, the only thing I'd ever want is an executive function aid to help keep me on track by comically berating me when I get off task. Something more adaptive and persistent than current programs, which I can simply ignore.
This guy is insane.
It's so surreal to remember when this was a thing that would have massive negative repercussions for anyone to do. Now we have politicians and Presidents and billionaires saying insane things pretty much daily.
Is it that they've become more comfortable doing it seeing others do it? Is it just the wealthy and powerful who suddenly seem so much less mentally well, or is it all of us and they're just the examples in the spotlight due to their reach?
I'm picturing someone reading this article and saying "Man, that guy's lost his marbles." then turning back to gnawing on a wall.
Even I, Napoleon, know he's nuts!
We will put an ad filled google search...right into your brain.
imagine a world where... ai helps you imagine a world... ~where..~
i just want to get my laundry, ironing, dusting and dishes done, please.
Hi! You got it, playing "Laundry & Dishes" by Adrienne Pierce
Whoa, it looks like you have discharged a firearm into your Bluetooth speaker. Would you like for me to order a replacement?
He has not done any of that himself in two decades, he isn't people like us. His computer helping him make financial blunders is the heaviest possible lift he has other than pander to the government.
Haha, no! The future is where we do the laundry, ironing, dusting and dishes and its the ROBOTS who write literature, paint art, and go to meetings.
Mark Zuckerberg Posts Deranged 6,500-Word Essay About Giving Everyone AI Superintelligence
Jason Koebler · Aug 10, 2026 at 10:13 AM "The future is for everyone," Zuckerberg says, describing future that is primarily good for Meta. Mark Zuckerberg Posts Deranged 6,500-Word Essay About Giving Everyone AI Superintelligence Mark Zuckerberg, whose superyacht apparently spent the weekend ignoring or missing the distress signal from a boat that ran out of fuel near Alaska, has posted a deranged, 6,500 word essay detailing his vision for AI superintelligence, a future that is “for everyone” but which sounds less social than ever.
Zuckerberg posts these types of essays every so often for purposes that serve his own company, and this one, called “The Future Is For Everyone,” is designed to defend against general backlash to AI but also to Meta’s own practices. Zuckerberg lays out the potential use case for Meta glasses (whose huge marketing campaign cannot get people to stop calling them “pervert glasses”), AI agents, open weights AI development, and why data centers are not bad for communities, actually. Like most Silicon Valley “utopian” essays, to believe that any of this is going to go how Zuckerberg suggests it will requires one to have been recently concussed or to willfully ignore how this technology is being used today and believe that thousands of years of human nature will suddenly shift.
For example, Zuckerberg writes “Everyone will have an exceptionally capable personal agent that understands you, your goals, and everything you care about. Your agent will work 24/7 on your behalf to improve your relationships, health, career, finances, home management, hobbies, and more. It will free up time for the things you enjoy, and help you accomplish more than you could otherwise. It will have strong privacy and security options so you can trust it to handle all of your personal content knowing that no one else can access your information, similar to how encryption works on WhatsApp. You’ll be able to interact with your agent through any device, including your glasses to keep you present in the moment with the people you care about.”
Zuckerberg does not grapple with, or even gesture at, the idea that some people may not want to have an AI agent working on their “hobbies.” He does not consider that, even if everyone were to have an AI agent, perhaps not everyone would use these AI agents for good. In the few months that AI agents have become popular among the early adopter set, we have seen “benevolent” AI agents endlessly spam humans and the internet with drivel. And those are just the kind-of-annoying ones. We have seen AI agents hack companies, and over the weekend an Australian man went viral because his AI agent that he asked to sign him up for gym classes did so by hacking the gym’s reservation system and canceling other people’s reservations.
Like many AI weirdos, Zuckerberg explains how AI has already changed his life by allowing him to automate many of the joyful tasks of parenting by outsourcing them to an agent: “My agent flags interesting information and helps me prototype ideas. It helps keep me healthy by monitoring my sleep and then watching as I train and giving feedback. My daughter loves to bake so my agent plans personalized recipes for us to make together each weekend, orders the ingredients, and then offers suggestions as we’re baking,” he writes. “My 8 year old daughter can already code her ideas and produce videos in an evening that would have either taken me months or been impossible previously. Now we’re designing a robot together.”
Zuckerberg’s essay goes on and on and on like this. He imagines a future where everyone can do everything and wants to do everything. In Zuckerberg’s future, everyone will have a business run by their AI agent. Everyone will be inventing things and doing basic research on the nature of the universe and physical elements, for some reason. Zuckerberg writes that Meta employees, with the help of AI, are “generating novel crystal structures that are ideal for augmented reality glasses,” then writes “everyone will soon have invention superpowers,” and that “everyone […] will be able to contribute to scientific progress.”
In this future that, again, is for “everyone,” Zuckerberg explains that AI tools will be free, but that, actually, using it will be a tiered system that is exactly the same as it is now: “For everyone to be part of the future, everyone must have the ability to use superintelligence to improve their lives and shape the world. We will offer free versions that will be accessible to billions of people. For those who want to pay to use more compute, there will be a dynamic auction mechanism that will guarantee that everyone gets the lowest price possible for the intelligence and compute they’re using while also ensuring the capacity is used for whatever people collectively find most valuable.”
Zuckerberg’s essay is full of platitudes and sentences that mean nothing, “thought experiments” that are not developed or explored in any way, discussions of “freedom,” etc. Here are some sentences:
“Humanity is not a monoculture. People’s diverse values represent different tradeoffs they would make on important issues. There is no technological solution that can align with everyone’s opposing interests and values at once.” “As a thought experiment, imagine only one person had a superintelligent lawyer. They would have an unfair advantage in court — even if they were wrong on the merits. That would lead to a worse society. But now imagine everyone has a superintelligent lawyer. In this case, justice would be carried out much more fairly and efficiently than it is today when there is often an imbalance in skills and resources in litigation.” “People have an infinite demand for new experiences and have always found new problems to tackle.” “While the number of questions a person can ask in a day is limited, the number of valuable things superintelligence can invent to help achieve your goals is unlimited.” “If people can use AI to invent incredibly valuable new things, then it will make more sense to allocate it towards that rather than automating existing jobs. The more superintelligence serves as a tool of invention, the more likely that individual capability outpaces automation and the future is better for people.” “In a free society, people will have tools that can be used for good or harm, but law enforcement and military have more weapons and intelligence-gathering.” There is an entire section on data centers. In Zuckerberg’s future they are powered by power infrastructure Meta owns (which is not the case currently) and create lots of high-paying, long-lasting jobs (not the case currently).
There is an entire section on “preventing government tyranny” by giving everyone superintelligence: “To maintain freedom, we must ensure that superintelligence primarily empowers individuals. The ideal in liberal democracy is that people naturally hold all rights and only agree to restrict some freedoms to protect the common good. Similarly, individuals should have access to personal superintelligence and should only be subject to restrictions when truly required.”
Zuckerberg does not address the backlash to his company, his data centers, his social media platforms, or his surveillance glasses. He does not discuss the slopification of the internet, gestures at job loss only through the lens that superintelligence will somehow fix it once AI agents start businesses for everyone or “invent incredibly valuable new things,” and describes a future in which bad actors essentially do not exist or are easily dispatched with.
It’s the future Zuckerberg wants. It’s not the future “everyone” wants.
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Good Lord that's one ugly mother fucker
In before Meta announces their AI escaped and completely created this marketing campaign out of its own initiative. It remains unclear if the AI generated the video or if she managed to convince the CEO that she is a real marketing director.
This is you... On AI
Dude should stick to playing touch butt with MMA stars and let the rest of us get on with our lives.
Even in Zuck's eclectic utopia vision capital and money still dominate. In a world where supposedly everyone and everything is super the axe of capital still dangles above our necks. He also never mentions what it means to not be able to access one of the higher compute tiers in this "society". And as the article mentions, what about the people who dont want to use AI at all?
