"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.”

  • BananaTrifleViolin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    35·
    4 hours ago

    The metaverse a resounding failure, Facebook has latched on to the AI hype train in hopes of making the company relevant. They’re basically put of ideas on how to feed the beast of “forever growth” the markets demand.

    • Trainguyrom@reddthat.comEnglish
      62·
      4 hours ago

      They have a slim chance if they keep subsidizing VR headsets to hold a and luceative chunk of the VR market when that actually takes off. VR is genuinely cool enough that enough people will get hooked once they experience a headset on their face with a VR experience that jives with them

      • NocturnalMorning@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        2 hours ago

        I’ve played VR before. But I don’t see it as a necessity just to play video games. It’s also incredibly disorienting after playing for a while, and it’s expensive to get the VR headsets, usually, also requiring you to already have a console, or PC to hook up to, so why wouldn’t we just play regular games then?

        • paraphrand@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          2 hours ago

          All of the things you listed are either being worked on, or are mischaracterizations of the state of VR.

          • NocturnalMorning@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            28 minutes ago

            I’m just not sold on it. I can play the same games without VR, and they work just fine for me. I think most people feel the same way.

          • CarbonIceDragon@pawb.socialEnglish
            4·
            1 hour ago

            While I do agree, I also find that even though I find VR a lot more intense and enjoyable than any flat screen game I’ve played, I also only rarely use mine even still. There’s something about it that seems to make it a hassle to use casually somehow, between actually getting the headset straps feeling comfortable, getting the passthrough cables plugged, launching driver programs on both the pc and the headset just to get to steamvr. It’s not a problem at all if I’m feeling specifically like doing VR stuff for a couple hours as it doesn’t take that long, but if I’m recently home from work and want to just chill for a bit without really knowing what, even that inconvenience means that the VR stuff basically never gets used for me.

            My current VR headset feels a lot more polished than my previous, older one, or previous experience with earlier devices owned by people I was visiting, and admittedly I bet it’s probably a bit smoother on standalone than on pc passthrough like I go for, but I feel like to really take off, putting it on is going to need to not feel like setting up a printer whilst wearing a box on your head.

  • borth@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    61·
    3 hours ago

    “And I think that that’s going to be just very exciting for the…”

    Plebs? He almost slipped lol

  • peanuts4life@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    3·
    2 hours ago

    Something which clarified Zuck’s behavior in my mind was an interview where he said something along the lines of, “I could sell meta for x amount of dollars, but then I’d just start another company anyways, so I might as well not.”

    The guy isn’t doing what financially makes sense. He’s Uber rich and working on whatever projects he thinks are cool. I wish Zuck would stop sucking in all his other ways, but he just doesn’t care about whether his ideas are going to succeed or not.

  • TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org
    152·
    4 hours ago

    Funny, the first thing I do when I recognize that something is AI-generated media, I make an effort never to visit that site/channel/feed/whatever ever again.

  • Lvxferre@mander.xyzEnglish
    5·
    3 hours ago

    For real. Companies being extra pushy with their product always makes me picture their decision makers saying:

    “What do you mean, «we’re being too pushy»? Those are customers! They are not human beings, nor deserve to be treated as such! This filth is stupid and un-human-like, it can’t even follow simple orders like «consume our product»! Here we don’t appeal to its reason, we smear advertisement on its snout until it needs to open the mouth to breath, and then we shove the product down its throat!”

    Is this accurate? Probably not. But it does feel like this, specially when they’re trying to force a product with limited use cases into everyone’s throats, even after plenty potential customers said “eeew no”. Such as machine text and image generation.

  • podperson@lemm.eeEnglish
    6·
    4 hours ago

    Soooooooooo……. More ads and bullshit then? I regret not the 5 or so clicks it took to delete my account.