> "What do you mean people like the AI more than me?!!!"

Should you have input on your own clone? I'm sure we all question ourselves from time to time, "I don't say that", "I don't act like that", "I don't sound like that", etc when in reality we do. The need to feel accepted and present a specific image might hinder the actual usefulness of said clone mimicking yourself.

An AI Clone might be more informative in those Senate hearings.

I have nothing

because I can't wait to see how this goes over. Zuck has to be so disconnected from reality, and hasn't learned from the metaverse VR failure. There is a reason why people want to meet in person, and it's not to meet an AI a personality, it's not you. But you have to keep the investors pumping the money into meta, so keep rolling the same thing out with a different name. Also, would you want an LLM making decisions for you?

Given how tightly a lot of meetings are really wrapped up in power (all the ones that could have been an email but are about who you an force to show up and all the ones that could have been an email but are about cutting someone out of the loop in a visible way) it tracks that the desire to be in your meeting while skipping your meeting would come from the top; probably accompanied by some questionable theories about how your management is so valuable that even a mechanized distillation of it will better the minions exposed to it.

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

If they believe this, then they have no understanding whatsoever what 'connected' means in a vaguely human context.

Of course, if you asked me if there was a single human on earth that current GenAI could imitate flawlessly, it would be Zuckerberg.

I am Zuck the great and powerful! Who are you?

Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain! Er, wait a minute, there's nobody there...

Ok they found one use case where the AI is going to be better than the real thing, but they're going to need more than that to sell AI credits to the average person.

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

I once worked at a startup that made it big. I once had to update some 10 year old code where the comments said, this code is tricky, do not modify it without talking to so-and-so. So-and-so was now the CEO. So I fired off an email to the CEO asking what I should be careful about. 45 minutes later the CEO is pulling up a chair in my office and we proceed to pair program for the next three hours. He's enjoying it, enjoying his brief escape from all the high level management BS that is his normal day.

If you look at history. Some of the most famous CEOs, even after their companies became industry leaders, would routinely go down to the shop floors and talk to the workers and shop foreman to see how things were going. To find out if they had everything they needed, if the processes were good, etc. Skipping all the layers of ass kissers between CEOs and workers, and getting to the truth directly.

Similarly, some of the most famous generals were notorious for not being in their command center, and being found sitting in some foxhole talking to a corporal or sergeant.

The fact that Zuckerberg thinks an AI avatar is a way to connect just shows that investor efforts to educate him to be a good manager have completely failed.

He's going to say the same things in internal meetings as he says publicly? Really?

Developers, developers, developers, developers!!! Yeahaw:)):!;!(&5@5@4&!4!!!!!!!!

How on earth does he think people will feel more connected to him, talking to a digital simulacrum? Fundamentally, how does someone who made himself a billionaire on the back of our social connections to each other not know what it is human beings want from connection?

"Mark is way more personable and likable nowadays and I can't figure out why"

At least according to the summary, it seems that the AI Zuck is just a standin for the meetings he would never attend otherwise.

that's it, that's the post

Why would anyone want to feel more connected to Mark Zuckerberg? The article failed to articulate that.

It explains a lot about why our society is the way it is

The guy is ash h a tool. (Rich, of course. But still a tool)

I thought he did that already years ago and not only for meetings.

of thousands of Meta associated being let go, replaced by their own avatars.

Meta already wants to provides AI bots so your dead relatives can sell you things, which is comparably worse

Would -you- be able to distinguish the actual Mark Zuckerberg from an AI simulacrum?

What? He's not?

I thought that was an AI bot all along!

More connected? I can't think of anything more alienating.

Copy & paste, right? I mean, really, it's trivial to close a bot.

This is an astounding lack of grasp of how humans interact from the owner of the biggest social network. I really want to know how that can happen. Can I have his brain and dissect it?

If CEOs can be replaced by AIs then they should be the first to be laid off. They make the most money, which means that they represent the biggest cost cutting opportunities.

So the current production version of Mark Zuckerberg is building a newer version with a more intuitive human interface, I get it.

being such a disconnected person that you thought making an AI clone would be a BETTER representation of you i would think the AI would be smart enough to tell him that's not a smart move

Having an AI avatar take meetings for you sounds like a good way to ensure plausible deniability.

"I do not recall ever personally directing subordinate X to do action Y."

What are the chances this has factored into his thought process?

Warhammer 40,000 enjoyers will appreciate the cynicism.

It is quite telling that billionaire CEOs want to do even LESS work and receive more compensation. Zuck is openly expressing that he can be replaced by an AI, but then he still wants to receive all the monies. This is not a luxury extended to the average person. An AI generated to replace the average person would results in termination. If Zuck wants to go down this road, he should be laid off and put the AI in charge.

Nothing engenders a feeling of connecting with another human quite like knowing there's a significant probability that you're really interacting with a bot.

In the not so distant future, you will rarely interact with colleagues. In a business context, you will have a digital clone, an agent that talks to the agent of your colleague. Your digital clone will act for you on your behalf when you are offline or even when you have left the company. This allows for immediate feedback in asynchronous communication like emailing or chatting. Also people are less reluctant to ask dumb questions to an AI. OTOH for people managing hundreds to thousands of other people its

Hey I wouldn't be complaining, I would see this as a great opportunity to jailbreak the boss and get myself a raise.

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

This kind of Founder Worship is surreal, although it does exist to a large degree in cults. This goes beyond putting statues and busts of Zuck in all the offices.

He wants to be the first immortal founder.

"has also started spending five to 10 hours per week coding"

oh come on now. Not even coders spend that much time coding any more. Not if we want to keep our jobs!

I'd just start asking real business/job questions and then publishing all the stupid wrong answers it spews.

Why would anyone in management set themselves up like this?

I'm surprised it got down this far without someone saying [1]"Didn't they already do this?" [youtu.be]

[1] https://youtu.be/y8oIfhsdDPM?t=10

Anything to avoid talking to a living npc. Robots have more personality...

Seriously, what could make you feel more "connected" to your CEO than an AI bot? Would you even be able to tell the difference?

This points to a leader that doesn't want to deal with the people under him and really doesn't care what those people think.

is that Zuck is not already some AI avatar...

"Meta Research is now recommending that meta-Zuck be given signature authority in management decisions, this following an analysis that showed, surprisingly, that meta-Zuck is not only better-regarded than his original, but is known for actually completely reading and considering the reports he's given." "Staff are now reporting that they've had zero incidents stemming from a random wild hare that Zuck was known for chasing, and that project prioritization discussions are much more consistent." "At least w

If the AI clone is good enough to be in meetings, why not just replace the Zuck completely? Sell the savings in stock payouts and other compensation to the shareholders and watch them kick him out.

It will be fascinating to see how the CEOs build their digital avatar agent thingies to do their work for them. They will be instructed to do what the CEO _thinks_ he does, rather than what he _actually_ does. Fun times for onlookers as the behaviours diverge.

Surely if the CEO can't be bothered to show up for meetings then he ought not be paid so much?