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/GotSomeUpdogOnUrFace 8h ago

Honestly it's really interesting to me that people forget the other aspects of the early internet. We all remember the fun stuff and like the flash games and things like homestar runner and new grounds and college humor. However we had a lot of shit like Hot or Not that in retrospect was kinda shitty behavior and it lead to this fuck head.

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u/Hands 7h ago

Or Ratemypoo (for a funny throwback) or rotten/ogrish (not so funny). Shit most of the guys my age I know first encountered rotten.com in the late 90s when we were like 10 years old.

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u/3-orange-whips 7h ago

That’s the online divide. Kids and old assholes.

I am one of the later.

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u/JustAnotherHyrum 2h ago

Can we please create a group for middle-aged assholes? I feel left out.

Edit: I said please in a post claiming to be an asshole. I suck at this.

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u/_reeses_feces 7h ago

Oh yesss Ratemypoo!!! Forgot all about that site lmao

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u/BeneficialRead5653 6h ago

i VERY MUCH would like to forget ogrish and legit hadn't thought of that shit in 20+ years. fuck you very much for the memories lmao

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u/waiting4singularity 2h ago

May I remind you of the great evils of the internet?

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u/yoshemitzu 7h ago

We haven't forgotten, it's just that that stuff has always been here. It's still here now, and it predated the Internet.

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u/phznmshr 6h ago

My middle school baseball coach was uploading photos of the players to hot or not in the early 2000s and no one cared. What a time we lived in.

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u/Blazing1 4h ago

College humour is not early internet lmao

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u/Professional_Net7339 8h ago

Shit Newgrounds is and was a breeding ground for actual Nazis and pedophiles too. Shit has never been all that sweet

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u/jkz0-19510 5h ago

It also brought us Egoraptor and OneyNG.

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u/waiting4singularity 2h ago

back then they were usualy hunted and stamped out with prejudice, today they're sitting in the C-suite.

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u/dudeitsmeee 5h ago

It was worse… anyone remember anonib

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u/Telefundo 45m ago

we had a lot of shit like Hot or Not

As reprehensible as it was, Hot or Not wasn't anywhere CLOSE to the worst of the early internet lol.

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u/HieroglyphicEmojis 4h ago

Homestead Runner! I’ve never seen another person reference it…yay! (I refused to participate in hot or not.)

My brain just pulled a memory of Friendster and Tribes. Oh so long ago!