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Why not?

Zuckerburg has already realized that local social networks will be utterly replaced by AI chatbots, which are superior in like 99% of cases.

It doesn't matter if others find "Facebook" icky, because the people who would find it icky, don't use facebook anyways. The critical factor is getting a new group of users onboard, to form a sustainable core of users.



> local social networks will be utterly replaced by AI chatbots, which are superior in like 99% of cases.

how do you use social networks?

I cannot imagine how my usage of social networks would be replaced by chatbots.

Although.. cripes, does nobody remember Google People?[0]

[0] https://qntm.org/person


I can see it. Lots of lonely people use social media as a means of experiencing connection, and being gaslit by a pornbot is not strictly worse than being gaslit by one of the pretty ladies trying to get you to invest your life savings on bitcoin…


Oh, is that what they want?

I keep offering them Safeway Gift Cards, but they lose interest pretty fast...




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