Legendary? Give me a break, media.
It must be a pretty shitty little legend seeing as I didn’t recognize his name. If he somehow manages to completely destroy Meta for the good of mankind, then we can call him legendary. Until this he is just an entitled piece of shit.
Do Facebook execs also come in VMax and Gigantomax forms? Like if this guy is a legendary Pokemon, what else does Meta have in its deck?
Also, more seriously, if tech companies can’t be profitable without eminent domaining everything else, maybe they should be eminent domained themselves. Be utilities for the public good or shut the fuck up and play by the rules like all the other kids.
The entirety of the public domain is right there, Clegg.
I made a comment a few months ago saying exactly this, and that it’s clear they are fighting it so hard in court because they won’t be able to even use LLMs there will be so little training data otherwise. People said I was incorrect and that fb, etc would just pay for it. Turns out I was correct.
The absolute arrogance of these people.
They don’t seem to understand that we DON’T NEED AI.
If it’s only “profitable” by stealing then don’t fucking do it.
I have an awesome business model for a company that gives guided tours of celebrity houses, but I’ll never make any money if they just keep locking their doors on me! That’s unfair and discriminatory, and I will not be profitable unless I can enter those houses whenever I wish!
Have you noticed that all social media companies are involved in AI?
The second use case (that looks even uglier) is to use it to simulate users on their platform and influence them via chat.
Not only to buy certain products but also to change political views. Imagine how much money one can make by doing that. No more bot farms needed.
Don’t forget to show Taylor Swift’s bathroom as she’s pooping! You gotta have that on the tour!
What do you MEAN she called the cops?? This is a violation of my entitlement!!! I’m rich and therefore don’t have to play by others rules, or make any sense! The world revolves around ME!!! Never forget that! Money is the most important aspect of life, and I won’t take sass from a wage slave!
fuck do you mean “legendary”
he’s just another shithead capitalist
Legendary cunt maybe.
He came third in the UK election in 2010. The first thing he did was join hands with the Conservatives, put them in power and start a spiral of decline.
Fuck him and everything he ever stood for.
Of all the comments, why is it just you and one other questioning this ‘legendary’ status?
There is absolutely nothing you can do at any social media company to receive that title.
I’m going to do something we should all do, block this “news outlet” from everything you possibly can. Godamn.
I thought Facebook executives could be ‘infamous’ at best.
Better headline:
"Former Facebook exec admits AI will never be profitable’
Say’s that they definitely WILL continue to steal people’s possessions.
Because PROFITS before ETHICS.
fwiw, this only applies to LLMs.
Which is what everyone means now when they say AI.
“Thief says robbing houses wouldn’t be profitable if you had to ask the owners for consent first”
Totally this.
Nick Clegg is not “legendary” in the slightest.
It is kind of a legend that he managed to turn a whole generation against the Liberal Democrats for being a spineless Tory sucker.
Fair point.
There are legendary villains too. But truthfully, he doesn’t even fit that bill either despite having worked for Facebook. Maybe he’s just the legendary wart on the arse of history.
Fortunately warts can be removed.
Are you sure his name isn’t Nick Scoffs? That’s my takeaway from the title.
Facebook Exec Scoffs, Says AI Could Never Be Profitable
You can stop reading there.
I had a millisecond thought that like okay so they’re going to stop doing it then?
funny thing? if they’d limit it to “black or chinese” posts and plastered it with ads, they’d probably make bank
what is a “black or chinese” post?
My business of stealing items from the local Walmart and then selling them to people for a lower price outside of Walmart will never be profitable if I have to pay for those items or ask Walmart to give them to me first.
(What’s hilarious is that even the above business plan holds more water than the average AI service which cannot achieve a profit even if the thefts are legalized because of the still high operating costs.)
the irony here is that genAI is more expensive in all domains: environmental, financial and ethical
It’s not stealing. They are just copying. They haven’t deprived you of anything.
As if that makes it any better.
I mean it’s the excuse that laughably is used anytime folks justify pirating. I find it funny most ignore or can’t see the parallel.
What? Who uses that argument?
Quite a lot of voices say ‘you can only train on my content, [if you] first ask.’ And I have to say that strikes me as somewhat implausible because these systems train on vast amounts of data. I just don’t know how you go around, asking everyone first,
Never does the question of NOT training these “systems” at all enter the conversation.
If you can’t afford to pay for one of the raw materials required to make your product, then you don’t deserve to have a business selling that product.
In any other scenario would this even be in question?
In any other scenario would this even be in question?
In any other industry that has been successfully regulatory captured…
It’s the same BS business spout when people want the minimum wage increased.
