That includes call centre reps and other low-level jobs

Are you 12?

Think about screen writers that have an idea of a movie that no one agrees to produce and now with ai engines it comes to life even as a trailer / short movie that people consume.

Heck, AI might even help them refine the script or allow unheard of cinematography visuals

The business model of ads and film making is definitely going to change to allow more creativity but it does bring up issues like rights and distribution

Even presentations will probably be more entertaining to watch ;)

There are about 100 ML personalized news readers already, the 'social' component seems pointless unless it's got some novel way of interaction.

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Combine it with Wolfram Alpha!

Uh, Meta's not involved with Artifact as far as the article goes...

Recovering some raw materials from a usable item is not recycling. How hard is that to understand. Recycling when conducted properly has a primary goal of salvage and return to use for the original intended purpose of an item. Recovery of raw material is the absolute worst case last resort in recycling.

Shredding up a bunch of 5 year old computers that are the product of a considerable amount of human labor, energy, raw materials and transportation activities when they still have years of serviceable life remaining is not recycling, and it is not sustainable. Full stop.

Any circumstances making that a common outcome need to be challenged and mitigated. Both on the part of manufacturers and the original end users or purchasing institutions.

Meta's not involved with this?

It's the Instagram co-founders, but they are not part of the Facebook group anymore.

Dude. You have no idea how many companies don't properly manage things. It's astonishing how backward so many company IT departments are.

We already get too much news from social media. These people need to stop.

The exact same shit was said about Japan not so long ago… (that they can’t innovate and just steal all the tech from the west, and everything made in Japan is low quality). And actually the same has been said about Germany as well a little longer ago. So I would be cautious with these kind of statements, they don’t have a good track record.

Also there are already examples of fields were China is more technologically advanced and more innovative then the west, for example renewable energy or some aspects of EV manufacturing (new battery tech for example)

Cool. Now do the other parts.

I would never trust a news app from Meta or anyone involved with Meta.

As all of these companies, they became too greedy.

I was a PayPal customer for years and did most of my invoicing through them. They gradually increased their fees up until the point they charged me almost 6% on each invoice.

That’s when I left. I’m pretty sure I’m not alone.

Maybe they finally fixed all the terrible software and they're done? Oh wait,it still runs like shit across every platform... my bad.

They are playing hot potato with a hand grenade. They know it's going to go off but none of them is planning to be the one holding it when it does. Also this wouldn't be the first time in history that a few people have tried to conquer the world. We would work and they would rule.

Why in god's name would Paypal need 28,500 employees to begin with? I realize it's a big important company, but that just seems insane to me.

Oh man i am completely sure that meta is a fully trustworthy company and completely not bias at all and it completely is and will be free from all sorts of misinformation.

-source: the voices

edit: it seems the developers are not part of meta anymore.

They were a little late but it’s 2023 now and my Tesla car does 96% of my total mileage autonomously, including off-highways.

Of course they are making foolish decisions. In your example they are simply gutting a division and possibly getting out of a specific business. My point was that companies were not "swapping" employees to keep wages low.

These companies are paying good severance, and the new guys would be coming in totally unprepared for the systems and projects underway. That would completely consume any imagined savings from driving wages down.

There is also the consideration of things stored in flash memory and processor and motherboard caches which while requiring pretty complex know how to get anything out of are still possible. It’s not just the hard drive.

These devices in theory are being recycled and I would say it’s easier to recycle Apple devices as they are made of mostly recycled materials already and most of that is aluminum which is very easy to recycle. Until you can find a way to ensure there is no way to discover data off an old device there is no other way than destruction.

The companies you are speaking of are mostly like I stated: government institutions working to protect state secrets, hospitals looking to protect patient records, financial institutions like your bank or insurance company protecting your financial info. A lot of this is done to protect people like you from getting their data stolen, it’s not just to protect themselves. Additionally many of the institutions I mentioned are bound to security standards set forth by government institutions as a minimum to prevent leaks so it’s not necessarily up to them, it’s just good practice in general although not every company employs device destruction and it’s not for every class of device.

That's a lot of companies from my experience. Seems it's a lot cheaper for some to just be seen as a shitty customer experience than investing in people/policies that help. Otherwise I'd imagine they wouldn't do it.

How about a law that you can’t fire more than 1000 people at a time without getting rid of the CEO too?