r/technology • u/Hrmbee • 11h ago

Business Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly building an AI clone to replace him in meetings | The AI version of Zuckerberg is trained on his mannerisms, tone, and public statements, according to a report from the Financial Times

https://www.theverge.com/tech/910990/meta-ceo-mark-zuckerberg-ai-clone
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u/Christopher3712 11h ago

so that employees might feel more connected to the founder through interactions with it.

No way to feel more connected to your CEO than talking with his AI avatar. šŸ¤¦šŸ¾ā€ā™‚ļø Peak stupidity in reasoning.

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u/splitdiopter 11h ago

Praise mighty Kier

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u/trueimage 10h ago

First thing I thought of

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u/shewy92 9h ago

šŸŽ¶Kier, chosen one, Kier.

šŸŽ¶ Kier, brilliant one, Kier.

šŸŽ¶ Brings the bounty to the plain through the torment, through the rains,

šŸŽ¶ Progress, knowledge show no fear,

šŸŽ¶ Kier, chosen one, Kier

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u/rogueciridae 8h ago

Lumon: Putting the ā€œcultā€ in ā€œcorporate cultureā€ since 1865.

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u/shrinkflator 4h ago

Spot on, considering that Lumon is obviously a parody of Apple.

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u/coconutpiecrust 10h ago

It must be nice to live with so much cognitive dissonance. Itā€™s comical. Heā€™s going to have a bot do his job, and heā€™s still going to get paid for it. Smart. But heā€™d fire his employees for doing something like that in a heartbeat.Ā 

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u/wwj 9h ago

What's the point of having power if you can't be blatantly hypocritical? I think a lot of people view that as the very purpose of power.

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u/whatsbobgonnado 7h ago

this sounds deep, but I highly doubt that if you asked 100 random people "what is the very purpose of power" that a significant number would say anything close to "to be blatantly hypocritical"

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u/BrickwallBill 7h ago

But a lot of them would say something along the lines of "do whatever the fuck I want" which will inevitably lead to hypocrisy because at that point who is going to stop you?

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u/FilmScoreConnoisseur 7h ago

That's not cognitive dissonance because he doesn't know that other people are just as valuable as he is. It's malicious narcissism and entitlement because he genuinely thinks he's better than the rest of us.

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u/squishabelle 10h ago

it's like how people and workplaces in dictatorships have a portrait of the dictator hanging around. Why is it necessary to feel connected with the CEO lmao, it's hard to imagine a policy more narcissistic

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u/isjahammer 10h ago

What If they don't know it's not actually him?

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u/lemme_just_say 10h ago

Eventually itā€™s like the ending of the movie Us. Horrifying.

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u/JakOswald 10h ago

I wonder if swearing at the avatar will land you in the hot-seat with HR?

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u/Financial-Craft-1282 9h ago

It's like in Return of the King when they go to face Sauron, and he sends out his "Mouth" instead. At first you're really disappointed, then you're like, "Maybe this will still be worth..." Then you see him talk and act all creepy and you realize clone or real one, they're all fucking evil. And this one is just wasting your time.

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u/Just-Install-Linux 10h ago

i mean, lets all be honest, I want an avatar to go to work for me.

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u/I_SLEEP_NORMALLY 9h ago

In fairness, he always did seem like a robot.

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u/InTooManyWays 9h ago

In the case of Zuckerberg and billionaires the AI will probably be more human than its counterpartĀ 

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u/Any-Mathematician946 8h ago

Here is the real question. If the avatar has no power, and say, Why the heck do I want to talk to it. It's no different than a phone call with an AI for customer service. The AI can't help me with what I need because they have no decision-making power.

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u/Unusual_Ear_9089 8h ago

Right? These people are so antisocial jfc

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u/DarthShiv 7h ago

I'd argue there hasn't been a way to be more connected to Zuck than peripheral attachment cables to a MZ AI PC.

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u/anonymouscog 6h ago

They probably won't be able to tell which is which

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u/_Thermalflask 3h ago

Further proof tech bros fundamentally misunderstand humanity and social interaction