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1. Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Dec-2022 00:45:12 UTC Chris Trottier

   No, Mark Zuckerberg is not "better" than Elon Musk -- he's worse.

   Elon Musk mildly inconveniences all of you by acting like a colossal manbaby.

   However, Mark Zuckerberg deliberately acquired and funded mind-reading tech so he could monetize your private thoughts.

   https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/8/5/20750259/facebook-ai-mind-reading-brain-computer-interface

   • Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Dec-2022 00:45:10 UTC Chris Trottier

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     Whenever someone indicates that Mark Zuckerberg is in any way trustworthy, I come back to this famous conversation he had while he was a student at Harvard.

     TL;DR: "They 'trust me'. Dumb fucks."

   • Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Dec-2022 00:45:11 UTC Chris Trottier

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     Meta actually demoed this mind-reading tech, which they planned on integrating with their smart glasses.

     Now with all the terrible privacy abuses and surveillance capitalism that Mark Zuckerberg has built into Meta, this is downright evil. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/18/facebook-shows-off-mind-reading-technology.html

   • Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Dec-2022 00:45:11 UTC Chris Trottier

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     Meta continues to make AI tech that "reads" your brain waves.

     This is trumpeted as a big step forward in helping nonverbal people communicate. And I don't want to denigrate this obvious need.

     But knowing everything we know about Facebook, why would we trust them as custodians of this tech? https://www.newscientist.com/article/2335961-meta-ai-can-tell-which-words-you-hear-by-reading-your-brainwaves/

     Wonderskeptic repeated this.