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I can't understand the psychology of people who think like this. You really think a throwaway quote when Zuckerberg was a college student applies nowadays? Yo

I can't understand the psychology of people who think like this. You really think a throwaway quote when Zuckerberg was a college student applies nowadays? You really think Meta would risk getting a massive (losing) lawsuit on their hands, in exchange for what? Middling amounts of training data?

alex1138 1mo ago
Throwaway? Which one. "Dumb fucks"? "If you need information on anyone at Harvard, just ask"? "I'm going to fuck them [Winklevoss twins] in the ear"? Applies nowadays? Ok, when? When he copied Snapchat into every single product? When he retracted all his messages on Facebook? (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16770818 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16770818) When he explicitly killed Instagram (buying it) because 'they can hurt us'? Do you want more examples...?
customguy 1mo ago
> You really think a throwaway quote when Zuckerberg was a college student applies nowadays? What does "nowadays" mean? What changed? > You really think Meta would risk getting a massive (losing) lawsuit on their hands, in exchange for what? And what is the risk? Food companies are at risk when they put addictive chemicals into food because they get controlled regularly. What is the equivalent here?
lunar_mycroft 1mo ago
Meta literally ran a man in the middle attack to spy on it's user's encrypted network traffic when they used third party apps [0]. More recently (and relevant to this issue), the engaged in industrial scale piracy to get training data for their LLMs [1]. The idea that they have changed since Zuck was a college student creeping on his female classmates and now wouldn't commit actual crimes against their own users in order to get a bit more data is just demonstrably false. [0] https://www.techradar.com/computing/cyber-security/facebooks-onavo-vpn-used-to-wiretap-competitor-data-court-filings-reveal https://www.techradar.com/computing/cyber-security/facebooks... [1] https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/meta-staff-torrented-nearly-82tb-of-pirated-books-for-ai-training-court-records-reveal-copyright-violations https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intell...
- alex1138 1mo ago
  +1 The credulity amazes me but mixed in with the brilliant minds here are some real 'temporarily embarrassed millionaires'. It's embarrassing, all right.

alex1138 1mo ago

Throwaway? Which one. "Dumb fucks"? "If you need information on anyone at Harvard, just ask"? "I'm going to fuck them [Winklevoss twins] in the ear"? Applies nowadays? Ok, when? When he copied Snapchat into every single product? When he retracted all his messages on Facebook? (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16770818 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16770818) When he explicitly killed Instagram (buying it) because 'they can hurt us'? Do you want more examples...?

customguy 1mo ago

> You really think a throwaway quote when Zuckerberg was a college student applies nowadays? What does "nowadays" mean? What changed? > You really think Meta would risk getting a massive (losing) lawsuit on their hands, in exchange for what? And what is the risk? Food companies are at risk when they put addictive chemicals into food because they get controlled regularly. What is the equivalent here?

lunar_mycroft 1mo ago

Meta literally ran a man in the middle attack to spy on it's user's encrypted network traffic when they used third party apps [0]. More recently (and relevant to this issue), the engaged in industrial scale piracy to get training data for their LLMs [1]. The idea that they have changed since Zuck was a college student creeping on his female classmates and now wouldn't commit actual crimes against their own users in order to get a bit more data is just demonstrably false. [0] https://www.techradar.com/computing/cyber-security/facebooks-onavo-vpn-used-to-wiretap-competitor-data-court-filings-reveal https://www.techradar.com/computing/cyber-security/facebooks... [1] https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/meta-staff-torrented-nearly-82tb-of-pirated-books-for-ai-training-court-records-reveal-copyright-violations https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intell...

alex1138 1mo ago
+1 The credulity amazes me but mixed in with the brilliant minds here are some real 'temporarily embarrassed millionaires'. It's embarrassing, all right.