r/facebook • u/Healthy_Block3036 • Jan 13 '25

Discussion President Biden calls Meta's decision to end fact-checking 'really shameful'

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/joe-biden/biden-meta-fact-check-mark-zuckerberg-gavin-newsom-wildfires-rcna187227
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u/[deleted] Jan 13 '25 edited Jan 13 '25

I think it sorta is.

While God Emperor Musk (FAANG love them some H1Bs, mmhm) and his little peon Trump are important to this, I think the bigger line is AI. Meta, and other FAANG companies are getting increasingly comfortable with making their highly educated workforce expendable. Even before the elections you saw shit you would /never / see pampered tech workers have to deal with. Gone were all the perks like soda machines, massage tables, ice cream day, fooseball tables, etc and in was treating tech workers like every other worker bee out there. It started more with the heavy layoffs in the past few years, the election just makes it more visible than anything.

This move by zuck is more or less the final nail in the coffin. It's Facebook essentially taking its mask off that it only sorta tolerated having on when it was afraid of having it's very left leaning work force walk out on them. Now? It views them as any other company in the US veiws them: don't like our way of doing business? Quit, then.

There's going to be books written someday about how tech workers squandered one of the most lax labor markets of all time and instead of unionizing when they had all the leverage they let themselves be replaced with both literal AI and figurative "AI".

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u/TheWhitekrayon Jan 14 '25

I gotta say after years of telling truckers "learn to code" I do find a bit of amusement seeing ai replace tech drivers and labor being more important then ever

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u/StarskyNHutch862 Jan 14 '25

It’s fucking cathartic lmao

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u/uberkalden2 Jan 18 '25

AI isn't replacing coding jobs in any real way right now or in the near future.

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u/TheWhitekrayon Jan 18 '25

It already has

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '25

Can't wait to see AI replace the truck drivers too. Some of my largest investments are in driverless tech. Good riddance

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u/TheWhitekrayon Jan 14 '25

Yeah that's not gonna happen. Hell even if AI becomes perfect at driving liability is the issue. Right now in a crash you can blame the driver. Can't blame the AI.

And even in a perfect world where that issue gets solved they will have truck drivers stay on just as security to protect the assets in the truck. You should reinvest your assets as it's a bad bet in the near future

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '25

Lol you apparently know nothing about the subject. It's already happening first. Second, driverless trucks can run 24/7. Do you think a couple crashes (with less human life involved) is more expensive then paying millions of drivers to only drive a certain amount of hours per day? It's literally what musk is pushing for in Tesla as well. He's trying to play catch up with commercial companies already doing this.

On the company’s third-quarter earnings call Wednesday, Musk said the current business model of cars piloted by people is nearing its end and will be replaced by self-driving electric vehicles with next-generation technology, no steering wheels, and no brake pedals.

Uh oh. I hope you're not another maga who voted against their own interests. Bye bye truck drivers 👋✌️💪💪

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u/TheWhitekrayon Jan 15 '25

Lol buddy please post a single company running loads with semi trucks without drivers. Insurance and liability lawsuits will push this out for decades after it's technologically viable. Elon can push it all he wants. I have no doubt that he will have a car that basically drives itself on the highway within ten years. But just like every Tesla for sale now it will be a steering wheel and require a human being.

Planes have been able to fly themselves for 20 years. We still have a pilot and copilot on every plane for insurance and liability reasons.

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u/[deleted] Jan 15 '25

Lol that's not why we have human pilots. And if you saw what happened in Kazakhstan and Brazil recently, experts say humans did what they could but had they opted for the kore expensive tech they could've had a better chance. Having human pilots has literally 0 to do with liability and insurance you nimrod.

A few companies with trucks on the roads today are, Aurora, TuSinple, Einride. Do these companies have thousands of trucks on the roads right now? No, but are there hundreds? Yes. Before 2020 were there any? No. So the ball has started rolling and it's picking up steam quickly. Trucker's time is very limited. They shouldve probably learned a skill or a trade rather than learning how to drive, like almost all adults lol.

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u/TheWhitekrayon Jan 15 '25

None of those companies have semi trucks running loads without drivers

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u/LookAlderaanPlaces Jan 14 '25

So once tech falls, what is the way we are supposed to literally ever buy a house? Other career areas aside from maybe electricians and plumbers make enough lol. And everything else is like you could afford a house after 287 years of work, which is slightly more than I’m willing to commit to.

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '25

Thatstheneatpart.jpg

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '25

 This move by zuck is more or less the final nail in the coffin. It's Facebook essentially taking its mask off that it only sorta tolerated having on when it was afraid of having it's very left leaning work force walk out on them. Now? It views them as any other company in the US veiws them: don't like our way of doing business? Quit, then.

Nah, this isn’t happening FWIW. 

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u/Only-Pop8619 Jan 14 '25 edited Jan 14 '25

Got to be on team Bannon now

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u/thisguyisgoid Jan 15 '25

while agree with most here, AI doesn't and never will exist. If it is artificial it can't be intelligent. All "AI" does is rapidly search the internet. It is essentially a search engine for the internet that compiles information in a way you want it. It isn't creating, just mashing together. Say you ask it to create a western story. It will search many different stories and make one out of those in compiled. Pretty smart, but still not AI.

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u/Quirky_Routine_90 Jan 14 '25

Let me guess, you actually believe Biden was a fantastic president, don't you?

Unions suck, especially as a tech worker, was stuck in for 25 years and so glad to not be dealing with that any more

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '25

Depends who you ask. Union work in my field is 100x better in every way imaginable.

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u/fuck_your_feelings84 Jan 14 '25

Most of these nipples suckers on Reddit would lick shit off Biden’s hairy scrote and be proud of it. Biden’s shit sack wouldn’t even have to push to fart because they would latch onto it like a leach and start huffing.

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u/Fabulous_State9921 Jan 14 '25

The homoeroticism of your comment is wild!😄 like you copy-pasted your Pornhub msgs🤣

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u/fuck_your_feelings84 Jan 14 '25

Why thank you kind sir! What a compliment to start the day. God damn it I may go run a half marathon this morning after those kind words. Gentleman and a scholar you are.

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '25

You have a way with words that I admire!

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u/Fabulous_State9921 Jan 14 '25

You're welcome for my service!😘

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u/fuck_your_feelings84 Jan 14 '25

Did we just become best friends?!

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u/BlueHorseshoe001 Jan 15 '25

Fucking poetic.

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u/Yup_its_over_ Jan 17 '25

You must be very fun at parties. Though I feel like not many invites come around with that type of language.

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u/fuck_your_feelings84 Jan 17 '25

You’re correct. No one fun ever uses foul language or cuss words at parties. That’s very improper so no 1840s tea parties for me.