Zuckerberg Says It's Fine to Train AI on Your Data Because It Probably Has No Value Anyway

[joelr]

If it were up to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, content creators and rights holders should just let these companies make use of their work for free.

In an interview with The Verge, Zuckerberg went as far as to argue that "individual creators or publishers tend to overestimate the value of their specific content," a comment that will likely come as a slap in the face for those whose work is being used to create these models.

If creators were to opt out of having their content be scraped, Zuckerberg said, "then we just wouldn’t use their content."

"It’s not like that’s going to change the outcome of this stuff that much," he added.

 

[Jason]

If it were up to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, content creators and rights holders should just let these companies make use of their work for free.

In an interview with The Verge, Zuckerberg went as far as to argue that "individual creators or publishers tend to overestimate the value of their specific content," a comment that will likely come as a slap in the face for those whose work is being used to create these models.

If creators were to opt out of having their content be scraped, Zuckerberg said, "then we just wouldn’t use their content."

"It’s not like that’s going to change the outcome of this stuff that much," he added.

So he's saying the content creators aren't talented enough?

I wouldn't say a lot of them aren't talented, but that the market is saturated. That leads to a dog-eat-dog situation until one of them has enough marketing to come on top.

 

[Cedric]

He’s delusional. Fame has risen to his head.

 

[Shawn Gossman]

The content that I create on Facebook resonates with my followers to a point to where they come to my page rather than searching for their answers on FB's search feature. To me, that makes me feel like my content is worth more than Zuck thinks.

He sure needed us to put the content there back when FB was all about building up content.

 

[Shortie]

The more I see said by Mark Zuckerberg the more I realize just how much the success of Facebook and Meta has gone to his head.

The fact that he clearly does not value the hard work that content creators put into their work is shocking!

 

[Heatman]

Mark Zuckerberg is just a silly man. Anyways, I don't blame because he's already on top of the social media world. He can come out and say trash like that and it wouldn't have any serious blow back to him and his Meta products.

If he's looking for something to do, he should work on his support system on all his Meta brands and not have bots doing everything.

 

[Carlos]

The problem is Mark just doesn't see things from the customer's point of view.

- Redesign was good and bad. Good: Reducing redundancies on the server side. Facebook was running on an old version of PHP, that Mark wanted to get off of. I love the zend framework that he worked off of. It introduced the now-industry-standard, push alerts. You see it now on most platforms, even in platforms that have nothing to do with social media. While all this change was good, it interrupted a lot of things. Pages are now "profiles." Which now gets less traffic than the old pages. Bad: Redesign was the perfect time to put in an algorithm. Put in censorship, to pediculate to the CCP. Yup. Here's what I said on an article I wrote:

I registered to Twitter in 2008. I registered to Facebook in 2008. I registered to YouTube much, much earlier than that: 2007.

But, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and yes, Twitch, all have aligned themselves, have been kissing China’s ass. Starting with Mark Zuckerberg. In 2012, Mark Zuckerberg’s wife is hailed as the “American dream.” In 2014, Mark Zuckerberg told his wife’s family, that they were getting married. In 2016, Mark Zuckerberg met propaganda chief. In 2014, Facebook welcomed a “censor-in-chief” to its world heaquarters. In 2017, Zuckerberg met with China’s officials. Zuckerberg also met Xi Jinping in 2017.

I don’t know about you, Zuckerberg, but this shit is DANGEROUS in many ways. I don’t know if Zuckerberg realizes this, but China is communist. I don’t know if you could just waltz in there, shake your in-laws’ hands and walk away without getting killed, silenced, or shamed in public. Even if you walk away, unscathed… they’ll intimidate you later. Sigh. Surely your wife, Priscilla told you the atrocities of China…?

Source: My startup pitch during pandemic (late 2019–2021)

Facebook isn't the only censorship product of the new "meta." Instagram has been dealing with censorship since it got bought out by Facebook. It heavily censors even the most miniscule of bikini-clad images. I posted a fellow youtuber in bikini, but got like cake on her legs, and they called it... "porn." I'm going like "Huuuuh?" I dunno about you, it's weird, yes... but c'mon... sexy? A fucking cake covering a woman's baby bottom! You're gonna say... THAT'S PORN!? What the fuck!?

*stammers*

I got censored TWICE for the same image of Donald Trump with the fist in the air. You know the one.

- Redesign caused profiles/pages to have less traffic than before. I think this is more to do with the algorithm than anything. It used to be a feeds algorithm, but people complained about feeds and "recommendations."

So, to say content creators put less value into what they post, is absolute horseshit. If anything, most Facebook/Instagram users are trying to get new users, new views, and whatnot. And they keep removing features that allowed them to grow their brands. Instagram removed a lot of features that made Instagram, instagram. Hashtags for example is now sort-of downranked, and Mosseri wouldn't listen to the instagram community on why we use hashtags...

Threads was launched after the layoffs of Twitter/X. Hashtags are not a feature of the platform. It's harder to grow on Threads than any other platforms. Oh my god.

I do like the interconnectivity of Instagram and Threads. Hell yeah. But what about discovery. They don't want it. It's basically leftist bullshit. The wokification of meta staff.

 

[Ravenfreak]

Zuckerberg clearly only cares about himself and his money. This is a slap in the face for content creators, and this is why I'm not really a fan of AI. Though then again AI is a tool, and like any tool it can either be used for good or for bad, I just feel like it's being used for more bad than good at this point.