I think it's too easy to leap to a conspiracy theory when well known facts explain things perfectly well. Every one of the major tech companies is shedding tens of thousands of jobs. This is simply a market correction. They had massively over hired, massively overextended, all on the expectation that the ludicrous growth of the last 20 years could possibly continue. All while working on the technology that would make obsolete a lot of jobs, including those within the company.

I don't think it takes conspiracy to explain that they just can't afford it anymore.

Because he generally keeps quiet.

Did they change what crucial means

While I love all the Musk-hate, why is Zuckerberg not catching the same if not more heat?

Zuckerberg stole all our medical data; all of it.

Zuckerberg has sold our data to China and Russia; often. There's verified records of it.

Zuckerberg sold our data to a company (Cambridge Analytica) and funded a multi-year campaign in order to sway US presidential elections to better fit his business use case.

Zuckerberg maintains an ads platform known to repeatedly manufacture disinformation campaigns targeting innocent users-- older and younger people that don't know better and are susceptible to manipulation.

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They are the new IBM

The same country that banned synthetic meat to protect traditional Italian cuisine.

They’re not pro-privacy - their conservative government are just anti-progress.

Yeah an idiot. This probably breaks a shitload of European regulations and will result in significant fines for facebook.

I tried doing the same but found that I could come up with better ideas on my own ironically. I use it when I need a bunch of low quality assets that would otherwise be an afterthought. I was making a card game prototype and I was working solo, so I had no time to really make a different card art for each one..normally I would have had a few redundant placeholder artworks and I would have recycled them for similar cards, or I would have straight up removed the images from the cards, but with Midjourney I could quickly make a bunch of okay images, then I passed them through a few filters to make them appropriate for the game vibe and..that was about it, 2 hours of work and I had something I would have otherwise straight up skipped. But when I asked Midjourney to make anything more specific or important, usually it failed and I went back to manual drawing for stuff like enemies etc.

They're competing with Google but Google doesn't publish a lot of text as far as I know.

I don't see how they're a competitor to Reddit.

Ugh.. soon the ads will be integrated into the AI prompt generated outputs without notifying users

Who’s going to do that? Joe Biden?

LaMDA + Google Conversations was "it." They quite literally had developed the cutting edge tech already. It's really astonishing to see that Conversations team was unilaterally fired. Same with Robotics.

My only thought is that the US Government gave them an ultimatum, e.g., either you develop AGI robots for us to use as military merchants, or you shut it down. And Google chose to shut it down. This is the only way I can see this happening. (Similar to Microsoft suddenly ditching VR).

Truly a WTF moment in history.

You need either a “father” achevement or “had a father” achievement and only then youll passively have a 70% of making dad jokes everyday

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Same for my job app!

I don't think we'll ever get batteries THAT good. And for aviation you're still limited to propellers.

That doesn’t make them GDPR compliant for the rest of Europe

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Virgin Orbit.

Truth. I personally only use it for inspiration. I don't put AI art in anything and I don't use "in the style of" type prompts. Generally, if an artist hasn't come right out and said they despise AI, they either will or they're dead. I appreciate artists too much not to care.

Sundar turned all that into rest-n-vest culture

Why? And what does fair have to do with it? It's unfair to me if I pay for the storage, and they have an undocumented limit that I run into. But exactly where does fairness come in here and why is 5 million "fair", but 5 million and one is not?

That’s gotta be fucking illegal when you look at the GDPR. No other company that uses data could get away with this.

The only somewhat understandable argument is that sometimes great ideas are based on random exchanges between people from different projects that happen during coffee or lunch breaks, but if teams/slack/zoom are used effectively, you can mimick that with group calls.

Specifically gamers tend to communicate that way in tools like discord and teamspeak.

Many of the bigger mmo rpg guilds are basically structured like companies. Remote communication works just fine for them.