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Mark Zuckerberg's vision of the future: 80% of your friends will be AI, owned by Meta, and they'll always be selling you stuff. (futurology.today)

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In an interview this week, Mark Zuckerberg said most Americans have only 3 friends, but they'd like 15. Never fear, he has a solution to how to get 5 times more friends. Meta will create AI friends for you. As it will own them, as befits the world's second largest advertising company, their primary purpose will really be to sell you stuff.

Even in an episode of 'Black Mirror', this vision of the future would rank as one of the bleaker dystopian hellscapes. It says something about how out of touch Big Tech has become with the lives of ordinary people, it never even occurred to Mark Zuckerberg how appalling this sounds to most people.

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[–] [email protected] 70 points 1 week ago (4 children)

My vision of the future doesn't have Mark Zuckerberg in it.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

My vision of the future has Mark Zuckerberg getting eaten by a polar bear after trying to pose with it for a Coke ad.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Mine has him poor, serving McD's burgers. Then some new (or is it?) TikTok trend drops, where a large shake gets chucked into the server window and hits him straight on. He has no choice but to continue working as the shake remnants slide down his uniform and through his hair, since minimum wage is all he's got, and he needs the money.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

My vision is him dying on the first floor of the tower as he and a thousand other billionaires become trapped in the Nerve Gear.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

My vision of the present doesn't have Mark Idontknowwho in it