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If this essay is right, one corollary is that Meta will stop investing in Llama once they notice GenAI makes people use social media less.
by gcr 2y ago
If this essay is right, one corollary is that Meta will stop investing in Llama once they notice GenAI makes people use social media less.
- willvarfar 2y agoMeta would invest more in AI, trying to tune it to stop it from making people use social media less?
- gcr 2y agoIf users leave Facebook because spam, and if spam is easy to generate with Llama and friends, Meta wouldn’t open-source models that so easily generate spam, I mean. The incentives are misaligned.
- willvarfar 2y agoMeta probably publicly released llama to undermine the hype openai was getting at the time. They were seen as the incumbents about to be disrupted by the new kid and they needed to assure the markets that they were also leading ai and also to drain the perceived moat that was fuelling the openai stock price?
- senkora 2y agoMeta is weird because Zuckerberg has a controlling stake. As he has shown with the VR/Metaverse push, he has the ability to get Meta to invest heavily in new businesses that have high risk / high potential. I suspect that if he thinks that Gen AI will substitute for social media, then that will lead him to invest more in Gen AI, not less, and try to be a winner in the AI platform business.