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Imagine still using Meta products in 2025.
by remon 1y ago
Imagine still using Meta products in 2025.
- rzz3 1y agoI agree with you apart from WhatsApp. I automatically know you’re from America if you don’t use WhatsApp.
- lurk2 1y agoIt’s not particularly popular in most of the Anglosphere.
- pmlnr 1y agoThis. Never thought that once we had Skype we'll still not solve video calls cross-platform on every bloody device by 2025, including, but not limited to, linux, TVs, Android boxes, Chromecast with Google TV, and so on. I really want to get off Whatsapp, but everyone simply refuses to do so out of simplicity, lazyness, and ignorance. Signal is the easy and obvious alternative. XMPP/Matrix are different paths that also work (and both rely on TURN/STUN, like everything), but that requires someone running those servers in your vicinity of friends.
- brap 1y agoI mean, every single person I know uses either WhatsApp/IG/FB
- tdhz77 1y agoI own the meta glasses. I enjoy them. Last night, I asked meta to look at the menu and calculate the best meal by price. It calculated that the protein in the chicken Marsala was the best deal for the price. I then asked it to look at the wine menu and tell me a good dry wine that wouldn’t be too expensive. The wine list was over 100 wines and the answer retuned in seconds. I enjoyed the meal and the wine. I will continue to use the glasses in 2025 as I’m finding creative ways to use them.
- pmlnr 1y agoI'll bookmark this as the saddest thing to do with food in 2025.
- jahsome 1y agoI'm trying very hard not to be judgemental, but this comment fascinated (or horrified) me. I grew up with some relatively minor food insecurity, and so outsourcing my food and beverage choice to a soulless machine sounds like my own personal hell.
- NBJack 1y agoAnd now Meta knows your location at that time, can use that lovely menu to derive ads better suited for its competition, has data on when you like to eat out, who else was there (let's not forget about DeepFace!), etc. While you ate your meal, you fed some juicy tidbits to their data repo on you and those around you. Oh, hey, is that an ad for a local winery?
- tdhz77 1y agoI’m in favor of banning all ads too. That ain’t an argument against ai.
- righthand 1y agoHow does it know the affordability of a menu item? If it’s only looking at a menu the odds are that it doesn’t have a lot of information such as serving size and calorie cost. You just asked an AI to give the statically correct item for affordability. The wine it chose was how far down the list? Was it chosen at random or did it just match “chicken wine” with the first result? This seems like you’re assuming the glasses help you decide but really it probably did what anyone would do and pick a random option or just give you the popular choice. Why even use glasses for that and instead just point somewhere on the menu?
- tdhz77 1y agoIt reasoned its choices. Told me the vineyard, what most people say about it. It gave me 3 food options originally and I said go by best value. It would be the same as if a friend recommended it to you or a server. How do I know the AI is giving me good advice? I don’t, but I’ve lived on earth long enough to know it’s not bad advice. End of day, the human makes the decision. We don’t lose agency unless we just say ok to everything. In this case, it was reasonable other cases maybe not. We still make decisions even if we use ai.
- joefarish 1y agoThere are plenty of people who are aware of the "trade-off" of using their products but are still happy to do so. Just because they've come to a different conclusion to you doesn't mean they are in some way "wrong" to do that.
- pmlnr 1y agoNo, not always. In this case, yes.