The article clearly says very little, except this:
But what Meta did with all this data is unclear.
No shit Zuck doesn’t deserve the benefit of the doubt. The point is this article says very little and reads like a Fox News quality fear piece. Futurism is better than that.
This seems like it’s Meta testing the boundaries of contemporary chatbots so they can refine their stuff so they don’t continually get sued. Given the absurdness of modernity, where people are using these bots in-lieu of other social interactions, this seems like a worthwhile stress test. Assuming they share the findings and don’t sell them which is likely asking too much of a corp.
This article, and especially the headline, seems like it’s fearmongering without substance. It’s like the headlines from anti-science tabloids describing an research article in the most biased terms possible. Thus, this article leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
Am I missing something?
Edit: related article(https://www.engadget.com/2209332/meta-is-facing-1-4-trillion-in-state-lawsuits-over-social-media-addiction/)
Geez, two huge earthquakes across the world seemingly hours apart. That a crazy, and sad, coincidence.
NPR just ran an article about the consequences of PEPFAR aid reduction in Zambia, and it’s heartbreaking.
https://www.npr.org/2026/06/18/g-s1-128583/hiv-orphans-child-headed-family
All Republicans should be tried for crimes against humanity.
China does get oil from Iran, but IIRC it looks like they’re shoring up their oil shipments. Countries downstream of China seem to be getting hit harder e.g. Australia. China / Russia doesn’t want a pro-US coup to take over, but the IRG seems to be surprisingly resilient and I think they’ll view small shipments of support as sufficient for now, while they gain the PR win.
I don’t think Europe cares to make another antiproliferation or oil treaty if Israeli hostilities continue for they have no forceful leverage to stop the US or the rabid dog that is Israel’s right wing government.
IMO, China has no interest in helping their geopolitical rivals out of this mess, and Russia likely benefits from the US being engaged in another prolonged, dipshit war.
The EU helped Obama negotiate the nuclear antiproliferation treaty that Trump trashed during his first term, and Iran would look for a stronger deal from them because of that.
Pakistan doesn’t want further conflict on its borders, and will likely push for peace talks, but have very little to give in negotiations.
All other powers benefit more from sitting and watching this play out, blaming the higher inflation and fuels costs, rightfully, on the US and Israel.
The US needs to concede or force regime change for this to end anytime soon.
The state of Russia has existed longer than that of the US, with the same imperialist tendencies going eastward toward the pacific.
What is this Putin apologist garbage?
The people being brutally murdered don’t care about their murderers’ morality and aspirations
This really is a meaningless statement without perspective. A Mauretanien slaver killed at the hands of their slaves doesn’t care about the morality of the murder, even if it’s justified.
You might not notice this, but your argument boils down to “the evil empire was nice to me for a bit which made it good.”
Considering Russia’s continued stance on LGBTQ, and to a lesser extent China’s (though I believe this is improving), I’ll take the US’s evil empire hegemonic influence over the latter in that matter.
EU’s the best power but the weakest of the big 4 and fairly young / recent.
No one should be justifying the imperialist actions of any hegemony, but hating on the US because it’s the hegemony on the decline, ignoring the actions of the other imperialist nations, is a weak take.
By this logic all Iranians support their current Islamist government, which everyone and their mother knows to not be true.
This comment contexualizes Meta‘s propaganda about AI, which the article doesn’t do. Mentioning Meta‘s AI blitz along with the secretive nature of this would have strengthened the article IMO.
Appreciated.