potpie@beehaw.orgtoTechnology@beehaw.org•Stop Trying to Make Social Networks Succeed [Opinion]
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1 year agoEven worse, just making money isn’t enough: you also have to become a fucking global monopoly.
Even worse, just making money isn’t enough: you also have to become a fucking global monopoly.
That is by far the most likely scenario. Hell it’s already happening with the AI we do have. Teslas driving into walls, facial recognition mistaking an innocent person for a criminal (mentioned in the article).
Doomsday science fiction is fun to toy with but it usually involves a lot of hand waving.
Pay billions for a userbase, then drive away the ones that aren’t Nazis or bots.