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Why has Emperor Zuck given us this bounty? (news.ycombinator.com)

submitted 8 months ago by corbin@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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In this big thread, over and over, people praise the Zuck-man for releasing Llama 3's weights. How magnanimous! How courteous! How devious!

Of course, Meta is doing this so that they don't have to worry about another 4chan leak of weights via Bittorrent.

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[–] 200fifty@awful.systems 16 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

"You’ll also soon be able to test multimodal Meta AI on our Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses."

Now this is interesting. I've been thinking for some time now that traditional computer/smartphone interfaces are on the way out for all but a few niche applications.

Instead, everyone will have their own AI assistant, which you'll interact with naturally the same way as you interact with other people. Need something visual? Just ask for the latest stock graph for MSFT for example.

God, I hope not. Maybe it's just me, but this sounds insanely annoying? It kind of reminds me of the objection I've seen to the metaverse, where it's actually a more inefficient way to do stuff, so it doesn't make sense to imagine it replacing the text-based internet.

Like, I'm not even a fan of smartphones these days, but surely in a world where you could only access information via yelling at your smart glasses, the invention people would be crying out for would be a way to use it silently with your hands, with a screen you could use to easily show it to other people...?

[–] yellowcake@awful.systems 17 points 8 months ago (1 children)

“Ray-Ban, show me cumsluts but like discreetly cause I’m on the subway”

[–] sc_griffith@awful.systems 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)

"ray-ban, I see what you're saying. but there's no way this game will make me cum in 60 seconds"

[–] Evinceo@awful.systems 15 points 8 months ago

Please put an NSFW tag on this. I was on the train and when I saw this I had to start furiously masturbating. Everyone else gave me strange looks and were saying things like “what the fuck” and “call the police”. I dropped my ray bans and everyone around me saw this augment. Now there is a whole train of men masturbating together at this one augmented reality. This is all your fault, you could have prevented this if you had just tagged this post NSFW

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 10 points 8 months ago

If you look between the lines, you’ll see this is just a repitch to Glassholes but totes cool now because people “will want to wear Ray-Ban sunglasses amirite”

I look forward to hearing they burned another $3b or whatever on this

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 9 points 8 months ago

I’ve been thinking for some time now that traditional computer/smartphone interfaces are on the way out for all but a few niche applications.

I'm sorry what? What is this even supposed to mean? You're sure as fucj typing it on a "traditional" browser mate, that a niche application?